Art and design

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German installation artist Rebecca Horn dies aged 80
Born in 1944, Horn’s surreal and witty work used birds, mechanics and masks to create ‘art machines’ and visual representations of sound

Philip Oltermann European culture editor

09, Sep, 2024 @12:19 PM

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Author Tracy Chevalier: forget the tired old art v craft debate – this is the age of konsthantverk!
When does a quilt stop being craft and start being art? It’s a question full of sexist overtones, writes the novelist Tracy Chevalier, but there’s a Swedish ‘third way’ that changes everything

Tracy Chevalier

09, Sep, 2024 @7:00 AM

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Picasso the printmaker takes centre stage at British Museum
Big exhibition will reflect life and loves of artist, from his first professional print in 1904 to 1960s masterpieces

Dalya Alberge

08, Sep, 2024 @4:01 PM

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‘I have taken risks, but Damien is a staggering risk-taker’: Michael Craig-Martin on style, the YBAs and being the great late bloomer of British art
Ahead of a major retrospective at the Royal Academy, the veteran artist and mentor to Hirst, Lucas et al talks about his nomadic early years, halcyon days at Goldsmiths – and the moment he stopped being ‘frightened’ of colour

Sean O’Hagan

08, Sep, 2024 @10:59 AM

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Donna Huddleston: Company; Liorah Tchiprout: I love the flames, but not the embers – review
Puzzling portraits mine the memory in Donna Huddleston’s stylised look at the 70s, while Liorah Tchiprout paints a cast of dolls inspired by women from Yiddish theatre

Laura Cumming

08, Sep, 2024 @8:00 AM

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The big picture: Hara Mikiko captures a Tokyo tryst
​The ​Japanese actor turned ​photographer ​seeks an element of chance in her ethereal scenes from everyday life

Tim Adams

08, Sep, 2024 @6:00 AM

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Catwalking: 40 years of London fashion week – in pictures
We take a look back at London fashion week though the lens of legendary photographer Chris Moore

Tamsin Blanchard

08, Sep, 2024 @6:00 AM

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Frederic Leighton’s only known painting of moon over water to go on show after being lost for a century
Painter’s Bay of Cadiz, Moonlight, bought by Leighton House Museum in June, will star in November exhibition

Richard Brooks

07, Sep, 2024 @10:00 AM

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Simon Verity obituary
Master sculptor and stone carver who created grottoes, public memorials and ecclesiastial work in the UK and the US

Alan Powers

06, Sep, 2024 @11:23 AM

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Monuments to motherhood, cinematic dreams and a ‘wild beast’ – the week in art
Hannah Perry takes a spectacular approach, John Stezaker offers reality-bending works and classicist André Derain designs for theatre

Jonathan Jones

06, Sep, 2024 @11:00 AM

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Surréalisme review – monstrous, deviant, glorious fun as the movement hits 100
From Ernst to Dalí, from Maar to De Chirico, this is a dazzling riot of creativity, celebrating the artistic potential of the unconscious – and shoes

Jonathan Jones

06, Sep, 2024 @9:22 AM

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Teresita Fernández: ‘Objects have a gravitas that affects your body. That’s the most powerful aspect of sculpture’
The award-winning artist is reinventing the way landscapes are depicted in art – not least by pointing out that human bodies are made of the same stuff

Elizabeth Fullerton

05, Sep, 2024 @11:29 AM

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