The French photographer’s brand-new loafers take centre stage in this colourful rotated image of a well-known barAs his una caña (small beer) was served, Olivier Lei put his feet up on a nearby bar stool. The French photographer, now Barcelona-bas…
They often boast thousands of great works – but who needs that? I can only really engage with one or two before feeling exhaustedVisiting an art gallery always goes the same way for me. I look at one artwork. I look at the next artwork. And then the n…
A horror film takes on the internet craze for user-generated paranormal tales, and Macca returns with his most affecting songs in yearsBackrooms Out nowPeople have enjoyed spinning spooky yarns about uncanny spaces since before the advent of the writte…
Drew Hopper’s photographs of inland New South Wales reveal a cinematic Australia shaped by long drives and fleeting encounters. His series West of Somewhere East is showing at Yarrila Arts and Museum in Coffs Harbour until 28 June Continue reading…
Russian strikes in Kyiv, the Ebola outbreak, Eid al-Adha in Gaza and Sinner at the French Open – the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists Continue reading…
Landscape designer whose naturalistic schemes transformed public spaces and community gardens From a flower-filled moat at the Tower of London to a rooftop community garden on the Old Kent Road, the work of the landscape designer, horticulturist and ed…
From a vinyl-focused music exhibition to beloved record stores, ‘listening bars’ and clubs, the Victorian capital’s fondness for wax reverberates in every corner of the cityWhen the needle drops, Elias Rahbani’s 1972 album Mosaic of the Orient (Näi, Bu…
British landscape painting from Gainsborough to Hepworth, Wendy McMurdo’s uncanny portraits and Jack White’s debut exhibition – all in your weekly dispatchBritish Landscapes: A Sense of PlaceThe romance and mystery of Britain’s green and pleasant land,…
The Perimeter, LondonTesticles have faces and a fox licks a phallus as the French artist mixes online anxiety, family life and saucy erotica in works charged with meaningCamille Henrot used to deal with the vast and unknowable. She used to ask the big …
Buzzy new thriller Backrooms takes us on an unknowable journey through liminal spaces, the latest film to turn a building into a horror villainWhen architect turned furniture store owner Clark (Chiwetel Ejiofor) finds a portal to a mysterious realm of …
London exhibition explores how care and protest improved rights and dignity of those living with diseaseFrom photos of a mass “die-in” by Aids activists in Trafalgar Square, London, in the 1990s to plushie breasts, lips and vulvas hand-stitched by HIV-…
Joel de Mowbray’s salvage scheme began as a small milk float converted into a logging vehicle – now he’s part of Tipping Point East, a massive site designed to divert valuable waste materials to builders that need itJoel de Mowbray reached breaking poi…
Four decades of Janette Beckman’s images will be on view until 18 April 2027 at Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP). The exhibit Rebels + Icons: The Photography of Janette Beckman will feature 700-plus archival and newly taken images. Among many ic…
Some are bright and cosy, others are starkly depressing – these images of rooms used to pump breast milk expose the sometimes grim reality of being a new mum in the US Continue reading…
Museum of Homelessness, LondonThis mostly alfresco exhibition expertly unpicks how homeless and nomadic people have been persecuted over the centuriesA trim caravan sits in an idyllic garden in the grounds of a former gatehouse. Its cosy interior is de…
Links between Trump Organization and Ivanishvili family for Tbilisi skyscraper raise new conflict of interest concernsA Trump Tower planned for the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, is to be built on land currently part-owned by the son of the US-sanctioned l…
The Grand Designs host on lonely houses, brave buildings and why Australia is on the cusp of radical change to the idea of homeJelly-like eyeballs are staring back at architect Anthony Burke as he approaches the ice-packed fish displays in front of Cla…
Wolterton, Norfolk From an explosion of plywood chairs to something akin to bubblegum stuck to the walls, this imaginative exhibition reverberates with Barlow’s punk irreverenceWolterton Hall is folded so deeply into the countryside of the Bure Valley …
Turner Contemporary, MargateThe young Dominican painter’s dizzyingly beautiful jungle scenes will transport you to the tropics – and remind you of the wonders of the natural world Deep in the Dominican rainforest, high up on a mountain, miles from anyw…
Despite a call for calm, a combustible mix of politics and protest punctuated the preview week across the pavilionsWhat not to miss at the 2026 Venice Biennale – a guideEvery two years the art world assembles in Venice for a sprawling celebration of vi…
Jenny Waldman of Art Fund responds to a long read that said instrumentalisation is reducing the value of art as an end in itselfJulian Baggini (The long read, 14 April) is right to remind us that art has intrinsic value and that reducing it to a m…
Ari Hodara initially thought it might be a hoax after winning raffle he found out about by chance while dining out A Picasso painting worth more than €1m (£870,000) has been won in a raffle by a software engineer from Paris who thought the whole thing …
Prof Robin Simon on the charity’s visionary founder, Fred HohlerI was pleased to see Art UK’s achievements mentioned in your article, but astonished that it only featured its new chair and not the remarkable man who made it all possible (‘We’ve scratch…