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Art & design

  • The Chronicles of Kyoto, by JR

    ‘Monks, politicians, drag queens – all life is here’: a trip to Japan’s Kyotographie festival

  • A woman's hands hold a paintbrush and a pot of ink over a half-finished painting of an octopusCaragh is creating an original artwork for AFYO. "Art For Your Oceans" (AFYO), a collaborative project between WWF and Artwise, aims to raise funds and awareness for ocean conservation through a selling exhibition of specially commissioned artworks, featuring 16 international artists, and utilizing OCEAN INK, a sustainable ink made from seaweed.

    ‘It’s almost like Vaseline’: artists including Antony Gormley swap paint for seaweed ink in art challenge

    Ocean-inspired artworks created using kelp-based pigment will be sold to raise funds for conservation
  • Painting of two figures on a beachIsland, 2009

    Royal exhibition to recount 40 years of Charles on tour in 70 artworks

    Visitors to Buckingham Palace will be able to see works by official tour artists who accompanied visits to 96 countries
  • Turkey, Mardin. 2021. Donkeys, essential companions for nomads, are tied up near the tents before nightfall.

    Braying donkeys, kissing clowns and Marilyn’s dress mishap: Magnum sale – in pictures

  • A Graven Hill self-build.

    ‘Ours was inspired by the Empire State Building!’ The chaotic brilliance of the UK’s biggest self-build town

  • Installation view. Ali Cherri: How I Am Monument at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead.

    Mud, masks and heads on spikes: Ali Cherri – How I Am Monument review

  • Frames from Muybridge the graphic novel by Guy Delisle.

    Adventurer, horse photographer, killer: Eadweard Muybridge’s extraordinary life told in a comic book

Reviews

  • Laurits Tuxen, The Family of Queen Victoria in 1887, 1897

    Art
    The Edwardians: Age of Elegance; Cartier review – excess all areas

  • Richard Wright No title (6.4.2022), 2022 (Detail) Poster colour and enamel on paper 81 x 114, 31 7/8 x 44 7/8 in unframed 83.7 x 117.4 x 4 cm, 33 x 46 1/4 x 1 5/8 in framed Photo: Keith Hunter

    Art
    Richard Wright review – a hectic, hallucinatory journey into a mind-boggling world

  • Giuseppe Penone’s Idee di pietra (Ideas of Stone), 2010-24, made of bronze and river stones, in Kensington Gardens, London.

    Art
    Giuseppe Penone: Thoughts in the Roots; José María Velasco: A View of Mexico – review

  • 24A05<br>David Hockney "Play within a Play within a Play and Me with a Cigarette" 2024-2025 Acrylic and collage on canvas 48 x 72" © David Hockney Photo Credit: Jonathan Wilkinson

    David Hockney
    David Hockney 25 review – so moving I had tears in my eyes

Photography

  • A group of women dressed in colourful cloths and bonnets.

    Witches and pooches: NYC Easter parade – in pictures

  • Two boys standing in water next to a small boat and another boat in the background.

    The big picture: Wolfgang Tillmans’s tender image of two boys off the coast of Denmark

    The German photographer captures a moment of tranquility one Scandinavian summer
  • Black and white image of concrete designed toilet in Japan

    Bog standard? Tokyo’s spectacular public toilets – in pictures

    Ulana Switucha’s pictures of the city’s beautifully designed loos have won a Sony world photography award

Architecture

  • Rowan Moore

    Even if you’re not a person of faith, there are reasons to see Antoni Gaudí as a saint

    Rowan Moore
  • Elaine Unegbu and Paul McGarry sit on red metal chairs in a bright airy space. They are laughing and chatting and are surrounded by tall plants and greenery

    The radical plan for a futuristic age-friendly neighbourhood in Manchester

  • The Sagrada Família in Barcelona.

    Vatican puts ‘God’s architect’ Antoni Gaudí on path to sainthood

  • Rushing Commuters on the Millennium Bridge, London<br>Blurred commuters walking on the Millennium Bridge, and St Paul's Cathedral, London.

    ‘Cities trigger our imagination’: why a walk in town can be just as good for you as a stroll in the countryside

Visual arts

  • Back view portrait of a female artist holding brushes standing next to easel in art studio, copy space

    A dustpan and brush with fine art

  • illustration referencing Munch's The Scream

    The big idea: should we abolish art?

    Down with expensive trophies at art fairs: it’s time to reclaim a more radical vision of creativity
  • Flávio de Carvalho wearing the New Look-suit and walking on the streets of São Paulo, Experiência n. 3, 1956,

    ‘Abnormal art is the only good art’: how Flávio de Carvalho sparked a Brazilian revolution

    He donned a skirt to shock his conservative countrymen – and got bundled into a police station for his own protection. As his work appears in the RA’s Brasil! Brasil! show, we celebrate a luminary of modernism
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