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Art & design

  • A sign explains why a reproduction has replaced a Banksy mural that was removed on Friday

    Final artwork in Banksy animal series removed by London Zoo

  • Liz Truss speaking at a rightwing conference in the United States in February

    The joke’s on Truss for backing Trump

    Brief letters: Liz’s lettuce | Banksy’s rhino | Liverpool accent | Apostrophes | Tesla owners
  • Valentina Moretti's Home in Brescia

    Absolutely prefabulous: a vision of the future

    An Italian architect teamed up with her father on the prototype of a very special project on the family hill in Lombardy, then they built 50 of them
  • ‘Coins, no matter how functional, start as works of art’: gold aureus, left, of Nero (54-68). Right: Edward VIII bust by Humphrey Paget for gold pattern for £5, £2 and sovereign, awaiting final approval, 1936, shortly before the king’s abdication.Right: Humphrey Paget (1893-1974) Bust of Edward VIII for gold pattern for £5, £2 and sovereign, 1937

    Money Talks: Art, Society and Power review – a vivid, revelatory look at two sides of the same coin

  • The Banksy rhino mounting a car, in Charlton, London, on August 12. Later the car was removed but it was then replaced with a skip from nearby a firm.

    ‘It’s wanton vandalism’: the unwanted consequences of owning a Banksy

  • Barbara Ellen

    Behold the new sexy Pirelli calendar, a perfect example of Post#MeToo creep

    Barbara Ellen
  • 340 Guide to eating ice cream

    Simone Lia: A local’s guide to eating ice-cream at the beach – cartoon

Reviews

  • Woman’s Cloth, 2001 by El Anatsui (detail), above, made of metal bottle caps and tags held together with copper wire.

    Art
    Edinburgh art festival 2024 review – from pure joy to war-torn desolation

  • Hany Armanious, Mumble, 2023

    Art
    Hany Armanious: Stone Soup review – the quizzical strangeness of the everyday

  • From The British Isles by Jamie Hawkesworth.

    Photography
    Jamie Hawkesworth: The British Isles review – enigmatic vignettes thick with nostalgia

  • Ed Clark, Untitled c.1976. © The Estate of Ed Clark. Courtesy the Estate and Hauser & Wirth.

    Art and design
    Ed Clark review – so ordinary he could almost be British

Photography

  • Pugs, 1991 by Neal Slavin. (detail)

    The big picture: a pileup of pugs

  • An alligator lurking in low water at the bottom of the pink-tiled swimming pool

    ‘I wanted my photos to reflect my disorientation’: rising star Anastasia Samoylova on how Florida’s hyperreal streets inspired her work

    It’s a big moment for the Russian-born photographer known for her dreamlike images of Miami after the 2017 hurricane. Here she talks about upcoming shows in London and New York, plus a new book surveying her career to date
  • A young girl is held tight as she weeps

    The week around the world in 20 pictures

    Wildfires in Athens, Israeli bombardment in Gaza, Ukraine’s offensive in Russia and Snoop Dogg at the Olympic Games handover: the last seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists

Architecture

  • Office building windows in a zizag pattern

    Zigzag patterns on walls could help cool overheated buildings, study finds

  • Two women shelter under an umbrella from the heat in Seville

    Cities are tackling rising heat – but they have to avoid a dangerous trap

  • Nek Chand Saini’s Rock Garden of Chandigarh.

    ‘What they threw away, I used’: the story behind Nek Chand’s 25-acre outsider art masterpiece

  • Dmytro Soloviov in front of a Soviet-era 'Motherland' statue

    ‘Casual decommunisation’: seeking to save Ukraine’s Soviet-era modernist masterpieces

Visual arts

  • From left: Leonid Marushchak, Yevhen Sternichuk and Marharita Kravchenko.

    Ukraine’s death-defying art rescuers

  • Leonid Marushchak with an art work by Ukrainian ceramicist Nina Fedorova, from his personal collection.

    Ukraine’s art evacuators: the intrepid team rescuing art from a warzone – in pictures

    After Russia’s invasion in 2022, historian Leonid Marushchak saw that Ukraine’s cultural heritage was under threat too. So he vowed to get to these irreplaceable works before Putin’s forces could
  • Words, words, words … a gallerygoer considers Rajasthan (Wall Painting), 2012, by Bridget Riley.

    Five of the best novels about art

    Rachel Cusk, Raven Leilani and Hari Kunzru are among writers inspired by artists to find shape and form in their own works
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