Before the beat drops, there is first the bedroom. A hot comb sizzling fresh from the stove,...
Art and design
Exhibition of the week Victoria Crowe: Shifting SurfacesTo mark the 80th birthday of this Scottish artist, this...
A key work by the Turner prize-winning British artist Chris Ofili featuring his signature use of elephant...
The forgotten story of African and Indian troops who fought in south Asia against Japanese forces during...
When Anne Geddes began shooting her famous photographs, she soon learned she would need a backup baby...
This started as a project with my daughter and her friends, who are all part of the...
My friend Peter Smith, who has died aged 84, was one of Britain’s most innovative ceramicists of...
Roger K Burton, who has died aged 76 from acute myeloid leukaemia, turned a derelict former stables...
A group of colossal black tombstones has landed on the north bank of the Thames in London,...
In the introduction to his book The Idea of the Architect (1983), Andrew Saint wrote: “We are...
Thinking about how we publicly celebrate or memorialise women’s achievements has changed – but not in pace...
Exhibition of the week Millet: Life on the LandThe Musée d’Orsay has lent Millet’s iconic Angelus for...
Gaypalani Waṉambi grew up surrounded by art, with her family home in north-eastern Arnhem Land doubling as...
Scotland’s queer king has a show of his own at Edinburgh and it’s as wild as any...
In the early 90s, Stanley Donwood was “at a loose end after university”, hitching around Britain and...
It was about seven years ago, in the remote Northern Territory community of Imanpa, that Pitjantjatjara artist...
When I moved to Brooklyn in 2005, I noticed people building restaurants and bars that looked like...
The figures in Jean-François Millet’s 1859 painting The Angelus, a French icon that’s come to the UK...
As the singer in cult indie band the Long Blondes, Kate Jackson experienced all the thrills of...
With “Untitled” (America), The Whitney celebrates 10 years in its new space and offers visitors a statement...
