Outi Pieski review – an entrancing artist with her heart in the Arctic Circle | Art | The Guardian Skip to main content Skip to navigation Skip to navigation Resurrecting the ládjogahpir … Outi Pieski’s wallpaper...
Streaming: the best films about artists | Movies | The Guardian Skip to main content Skip to navigation Skip to navigation From left: Kirk Douglas as Vincent van Gogh in Vincente Minnelli's ‘unabashedly gorgeous' Lust For Life (1956); ‘raw, restless' Jeffrey Wright in Julian Schnabel's Basquiat (1996); the Swedish artist and mystic Hilma af Klint in Halina Ryschka's documentary Beyond the Visible (2019)...
The big picture: Bert Hardy’s portrait of striking Chinese seamen in 1940s Liverpool | Photography | The Guardian Skip to main content Skip to navigation Skip to navigation A group of men in a Chinese hostel in Liverpool, May 1942...
The chilling soulless cruelty of Rishi Sunak is the stuff of nightmares | Stewart Lee | The Guardian Skip to main content Skip to navigation Skip to navigation Illustration by David Foldvari...
‘Living in Brixton allowed me not to be judged non-stop’: Zineb Sedira, the artist who makes people feel at home | Art | The Guardian Skip to main content Skip to navigation Skip to navigation Zineb Sedira photographed in the Whitechapel gallery, where her Brixton living room has been recreated in wallpaper...
‘We always dreamed of building our own house – so we did’ | Homes | The Guardian Skip to main content Skip to navigation Skip to navigation The living room floor is made of chunky end-grain timber, made of leftovers from the larch joists...
Frank Auerbach: The Charcoal Heads review: war-scarred faces on paper that has taken a pounding | Art and design | The Guardian Skip to main content Skip to navigation Skip to navigation The only remaining family Auerbach had … Gerda Boehm, 1961...
A cultural manifesto to breathe new life into our dying high streets | Regeneration | The Guardian Skip to main content Skip to navigation Skip to navigation Free Your Mind, an immersive performance with stage design by Es Devlin, at Aviva Studios, Manchester last year...
Entangled Pasts: Art, Colonialism and Change review – the most radical show in the RA’s history | Art | The Guardian Skip to main content Skip to navigation Skip to navigation The First Supper (2021-23), Tavares Strachan’s lifesize recreation of Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper in the Royal Academy’s courtyard, the parts all played by heroes of Black history...
Italian minister investigated over alleged art theft quits | Italy | The Guardian Skip to main content Skip to navigation Skip to navigation Vittorio Sgarbi at a film screening in Rome in October...
An eyeful of Soho sinners: Douglas Gordon’s All I Need Is a Little Bit of Everything review | Douglas Gordon | The Guardian Skip to main content Skip to navigation Skip to navigation Male gaze … a still from 2023EastWestGirlsBoys...
RSPCA Young Photographer awards 2023 – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian Skip to main content RSPCA Young Photographer awards 2023 – in pictures The overall winner was a turkey called Frederick photographed by Jamie Smart...
Dr Terror deals the Death card: how tarot was turned into an occult obsession | Art | The Guardian Skip to main content Skip to navigation Skip to navigation Just in time for Christmas … tarot cards by Pamela Colman Smith...
Cats in the Museum review – kids toon in which moggies defend masterpieces from mice | Movies | The Guardian Skip to main content Skip to navigation Skip to navigation Moggies with masterpieces … Cats in the Museum...
Grayson Perry challenges electricity bill rise from £300 to £39,000 a month | Grayson Perry | The Guardian Skip to main content Skip to navigation Skip to navigation Grayson Perry says he was unable to get an explanation from EDF’s call centre about why his bill went up by such a gigantic amount...
Sidcup library and cinema review – William Morris meets the multiplex | Architecture | The Guardian Skip to main content Skip to navigation Skip to navigation Sidcup library and cinema, which ‘occupies its long thin site like a ship’...
Guardian Australia’s best photos of 2023 – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian Skip to main content Australia year in review 2023 Guardian Australia’s best photos of 2023 – in pictures Watching the total solar eclipse 35km from Exmouth, Western Australia...
Best designs and designers of 2023: ‘A chunk of glossy sexiness’ | Design | The Guardian Skip to main content Skip to navigation Skip to navigation From left to right; Mary Wollstonecraft by artist Rowan Gillespie, Andu Masebo Part Exchange, Mac Collins domino Composite: Guardian Design/Andu Masebo/Oliver Wainwright/Fennell Photography From 3D-printed headphones to a museum dedicated to crabs, our panel of experts pick the designs and designers of the year Althea McNish: Colour is Mine at the William Morris Gallery, London Althea McNish: Colour is Mine designed by Bushra Mohamad/Msoma Architects and Nana Biama-Ofosu/YAA Projects Photograph: Nicola Tree Chosen by Adam Nathaniel Furman , artist and designer A brilliant celebration of one of the greatest – but not exhibited enough – British textile designers, this show is the kind of celebration of the power of craft and design that we need to see more of...
Best films of 2023 in the UK: No 9 – All the Beauty and the Bloodshed | Movies | The Guardian Skip to main content Skip to navigation Skip to navigation The making of an art protest masterpiece … Nan Goldin in All the Beauty and the Bloodshed...
‘We laughed and cried a lot’: a Japanese photographer in Alabama – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian Skip to main content ‘We laughed and cried a lot’: a Japanese photographer in Alabama – in pictures ‘He looked very proud’ … Matthew in His Car, 2019 The Band, 2017 When Japanese photographer Fumi Nagasaka was invited by her friend Tanya to visit her home town of Dora, Alabama, it proved to be a moment of creative inspiration...
Renaissance bronze Apollo donated to British nation to pay inheritance tax bill | Museums | The Guardian Skip to main content Skip to navigation Skip to navigation The Apollo Belvedere, by Antico, described as ‘the quintessential Italian Renaissance bronze masterpiece’...
‘Art helps us imagine a future we wish to remember’: the photographer finding art in a war zone | Art | The Guardian Skip to main content Skip to navigation Skip to navigation Poster by Kyiv designer Mykola Honcharov...
Larry Fink obituary | Photography | The Guardian Skip to main content Skip to navigation Skip to navigation Black Mask, 1967...
Drive-by culture: monuments you can see by road, rail or water | Architecture | The Guardian Skip to main content Skip to navigation Skip to navigation The Soviet monument on Mount Buzludzha is the biggest ideological building in Bulgaria...
The big picture: Elliott Erwitt’s lifelong love of dogs | Photography | The Guardian Skip to main content Skip to navigation Skip to navigation Paris, 1989...
‘My art makes a statement’: what to expect at this year’s Art Basel Miami | Art Basel Miami | The Guardian Skip to main content Skip to navigation Skip to navigation Art Basel Miami...
Pesellino review – a lost star of the Florentine Renaissance shines again | Exhibitions | The Guardian Skip to main content Skip to navigation Skip to navigation ‘Almost psychedelic blues, reds and golds’ … The Pistoia Trinity altarpiece, c 1455-60, showing in Pesellino: A Renaissance Master Revealed at the National Gallery...
Turner prize 2023 – and the winner should be… | Turner prize 2023 | The Guardian Skip to main content Skip to navigation Skip to navigation Clockwise from top left: works by 2023 Turner prize contenders Ghislaine Leung, Jesse Darling, Barbara Walker and Rory Pilgrim at Towner Eastbourne...
John Akomfrah: Arcadia review – celebration of Mayflower overwhelms the senses | John Akomfrah | The Guardian Skip to main content Skip to navigation Skip to navigation There is always a man on the shore, his back to us … a still from John Akomfrah’s Arcadia...
Friend of Francis Bacon snubs the Tate to give art works to Paris instead | Francis Bacon | The Guardian Skip to main content Skip to navigation Advertisement Friend of Francis Bacon snubs the Tate to give art works to Paris instead Barry Joule says he is cancelling plans to donate a collection to the UK gallery because it failed to exhibit works in earlier gift A photograph of Francis Bacon and Barry Joule with the art dealer Catharina Toto Koopman on holiday in Sicily in 1987...