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Art & design

  • Untitled #80 (1980).

    Cindy Sherman: ‘Little girls play dress-up – but I was always trying to be a monster instead of a fairy’

  • BRUCE EESLY New Farmer 2024-BRUC-10 Bruce Eesly. Peter Trimmel wins first prize for his UHY fennel at the Kooma Giants Show in Limburg, 1956, New Farmer series, 2023. Courtesy of the artist.

    Rencontres d’Arles: Toxic futures, shadowy pasts and jolly green dreams

    This year’s annual art photography festival leads visitors to spooky subterranean work by Sophie Calle, devastating images of oceans under threat and some gigantic AI vegetables
  • People standing in a room with a large image of a model in a white dress on the wall

    Immersive Vogue show lifts curtain on catwalks past and present

    Exhibition at London venue Lightroom explores inner workings of runway shows since early 20th century
  • A 1920s painting of a Dutch woman in traditional costume with a deep gash across her neck.

    Slashed painting owned by Stephen Fry’s mother tells chilling story of fleeing from Nazis

  • Array of sculptures in the gallery

    ‘We want to ruffle a few feathers’: Liverpool gallery confronts colonial past

  • A blurred picture of people passing through a station with arrows pointing in different directions on the floor.

    Tokyo’s oldest train line – in pictures

  • Désirée Reynolds

    The radical archives movement making art from forgotten histories

Reviews

  • Davyd Burliuk, Carousel, 1921

    Art
    In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s review – a small yet blazing act of solidarity

  • Bearing witness to survival and growth … Being a Part of Her Growth, 2002.

    Art and design
    Lonnie Holley review – America’s wreckage made into magical art

  • 1992’s Totally Hair Barbie.

    Art and design
    Barbie: The Exhibition review – the wonder doll’s evolution, from Gehry homes to ‘gay Ken’

  • Red swirling tentacles … split obliteration 2024, Dominique White, from Dominique White: Deadweight at Whitechapel Gallery, London.

    Art and design
    Dominique White: Deadweight review – a beautiful, twisted sea monster

Photography

  • Dancers leaping in wild shapes

    ‘My flash kept blinding everyone on the dancefloor’: Elaine Constantine on capturing 90s northern soul all-nighters

  • Commuters, Evening Train, Penn Station, New York, 1958 (detail).

    The big picture: Louis Stettner on commuters in 1950s New York

    The American photographer’s connection with his countrymen shines through in portraits of people going about their daily lives
  • Blue and white striped blazers with carnations in their buttonholes, hanging up

    A backstage pass at the National Theatre – in pictures

    Laura McCluskey documents the hours before the curtains open, when cast and crew prepare for the evening’s show

Architecture

  • Roger Walker’s 1973 complex Park Mews in Wellington’s Hataitai district

    ‘I may have reacted too far’: architect Roger Walker on his groundbreaking buildings

  • A platform with stone blocks overlooks the ocean and an overcast sky

    Sydney firm scoops top NSW architecture prize for rebuild of North Head viewing platforms

  • DO NOT USE!! CURRENTLY AWAITING PUBLICATION DATE Saturday magazine Interiors feature - Cowshed

    ‘A nearby farmer took the whole herd’: how a couple turned a cowshed into a dream home for artists

  • Ken Isaacs, Beach Matrix, Westport, Connecticut, 1967

    June design news: forgotten modernist gems, wonky watches and inside Noma’s kitchen

Visual arts

  • 327 questionable art

    Simone Lia: Questionable art – cartoon

  • Gavin Jantjes, Freedom Hunters, 1977.

    Anti-apartheid art, Keith Haring graffiti and new life for fallen trees – the week in art

    A retrospective of South African artist Gavin Jantjes, new works by Zanele Muholi and Charles Lutyens’ insights as an art therapist
  • Sharpening the Saws by Oleksandr Bohomazov, 1927.

    Giants of Ukrainian art, Henry Moore goes to war and Chris Ofili’s myth making – the week in art

    A showcase of modernist greats from Malevich to Delaunay, the Yorkshire sculptor’s Blitz drawings and Ofili’s tapestry returns home to Scotland – all in your weekly dispatch
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