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Art & design

  • Gandini and a gold Miura

    Marcello Gandini, Lamborghini, Lancia and Alfa Romeo designer, dies aged 85

  • Van Gogh’s Portrait of the Artist (1887)

    ‘The original selfie?’: Cardiff borrows Van Gogh self-portrait for selfie show

    Musée d’Orsay in Paris lends painting in exchange for a Renoir for Welsh Art of the Selfie exhibition
  • Playful … Detail of a portrait of Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire with her daughter by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1784

    ‘A ball of mighty, miraculous life’ – Picturing Childhood review

    From Lucian Freud’s unsentimental depiction of infant Bella to Raphael’s intimate observations and an 18th-century pram designed to be pulled by a goat, this exhibition is full of fun and insight
  • Salt-N-Pepa at Radio City Music Hall, New York City in 1994.

    From Nina Simone and Bob Marley to Goldie and Salt-N-Pepa: a who’s who of Black popular music – in pictures

  • The Groucho Club in Soho, London.

    ‘Why would we go to America first?’ London’s Groucho Club to open in Yorkshire

  • Naomi Campbell in a grey suit next to a beaded dress

    Naomi Campbell ‘stressed out’ as V&A tickets for show in her honour go on sale

  • Matt Connors, Pieta, 2019. Courtesy the artist and Alexander V. Petalas.

    Matt Connors: Finding Aid review – fearless exhibition full of unexpected pleasures

Reviews

  • Heitor dos Prazeres, Untitled, 1965.tif Heitor dos Prazeres, Untitled, 1965 Courtesy Almeida & Dale Galeria de Arte © the Estate of Heitor dos Prazeres Photograph by Sergio Guerini

    Art
    Some May Work As Symbols review – this raucous Brazilian art extravaganza can stop you in your tracks

  • Clare College extension Clare College, Cambridge Witherford Watson Mann architects

    Architecture
    New River Wing, Clare College, Cambridge review – a perfect fit

  • A Perfect Home, 1999 by Do Ho Suh.

    Art
    Do Ho Suh: Tracing Time review – an extraordinarily beautiful search for home

  • High Court Projected by architect Le Corbusier Chandigarh

    Architecture
    Tropical Modernism review – a complex story of power, freedom, craft… and cows

Photography

  • Hoda Afshar - For My Best Shot only

    Hair-plaiting for the Iranian resistance: Hoda Afshar’s best photograph

  • Four young black girls in swimming costumes posing by a poolside at Sea Point Pavilion, Cape Town, South Africa, with buildings in the background

    Sony World Photography awards open competition winners – in pictures

    The World Photography Organisation has announced the 10 category winners in the Sony World Photography awards open competition, recognising single images from across the world in 2023. In this year’s competition, about 395,000 images from more than 220 countries and territories were submitted. The overall winner of the open competition will be announced at a ceremony in London on 18 April
  • I Have No Hands to Caress My Face Mario Giacomelli I Have No Hands to Caress My Face 1961–1963, printed ca.1971 BnF, Paris © Mario Giacomelli Archives

    A century of monochrome magic – in pictures

    A new exhibition celebrates over 100 years of two-tone photography, featuring stunning sharp contrasts, nuanced greys … and a Chinese roller skater

Architecture

  • Electric Cinema in Birmingham

    ‘A tipping point for the city’: anger in Birmingham as Electric cinema closes

  • The Brindley theatre, Runcorn, Cheshire, 2004, designed by John Miller + Partners.

    John Miller obituary

  • Riken Yamamoto’s Yokosuka Museum of Art.

    ‘I am not very good at design’: architecture’s top honour goes to Riken Yamamoto

  • view of thin building under construction in front of empire state building

    New Yorkers rail against luxury tower blocking Empire State Building: ‘The mighty dollar rules the sky’

Visual arts

  • Abstract thoughts … Art Talent Show.

    Art Talent Show review – witty interrogation of art students asks the big questions

  • Art Basel Miami install shot

    ‘My art makes a statement’: what to expect at this year’s Art Basel Miami

    The annual event brings together artists and art-lovers from around the world with this year’s edition featuring a number of politically driven pieces
  • Vittorio Sgarbi

    Italian minister investigated over alleged art theft quits

    Vittorio Sgarbi, who denies allegations over painting, cites separate antitrust investigation in resignation
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