Art and design

Vast staff cuts imminent at V&A, insiders say
Curators and conservators said to be in line of fire, ‘hollowing out the expertise of the museum’
Dalya Alberge
25, Feb, 2021 @8:01 PM

John Barber obituary
Other lives: Freelance artist whose commissions ranged from Airfix packaging to Christmas cards
Paul Barber
25, Feb, 2021 @6:06 PM

Design news for February: tech to keep in touch and the world's biggest drawing club
Swiss furniture, Japanese ceramics and the best bus station in Lithuania
Alice Fisher
25, Feb, 2021 @11:46 AM

Set children free: are playgrounds a form of incarceration?
Play has been the invisible casualty of the pandemic. Is it time to let children reclaim the streets? Our writer looks forward to a post-Covid world of parklets, play streets and repurposed parking spaces
Oliver Wainwright
25, Feb, 2021 @6:00 AM

The communist who raised me: photographer Ruth Maddison interrogates her father's Asio file
Wire taps and surveillance were everyday facts of life for Sam Goldbloom and his family. Now, his daughter reimagines that period of their lives in a major survey exhibition
Alison Stieven-Taylor
24, Feb, 2021 @11:00 PM

Naomi Waldman obituary
Other Lives: Ceramicist whose elegant mid-20th century vase designs were reproduced by Habitat in the 2000s
Michael Waldman
24, Feb, 2021 @6:45 PM

Gerard Hemsworth obituary
Artist who played a key role in the emergence of a new kind of British conceptualism
Charles Darwent
24, Feb, 2021 @6:12 PM

The world in one park: Irina Rozovsky's best photograph
‘If you’re standing still on a New York street, you’re either lost or crazy. But on the shores of this lake, I saw real stillness for the first time’
Interview by Diane Smyth
24, Feb, 2021 @4:30 PM

Vincent van Gogh Paris painting from 1887 to make public debut
Scène de rue à Montmartre has been part of same French family’s private collection for more than a century
Jon Henley
24, Feb, 2021 @1:30 PM

Sweet memories of the Royal Festival Hall’s inspiring staircase | Letters
Letters: Trevor Dannatt’s staircase at the Royal Festival Hall made a strong impression on Jeremy Lowe as a young architecture student, while John Page remembers a useful aspect of the banisters
Letters
22, Feb, 2021 @5:32 PM

17,300-year-old Kimberley kangaroo recognised as Australia's oldest rock artwork
Two-metre-long painting in Western Australia dated by analysing wasp nests and is the oldest work still in its original place
Graham Readfearn
22, Feb, 2021 @4:30 PM

Drawings by Cézanne and Klee among works gifted to Courtauld Gallery
Assembled by the late collector Howard Karshan, the ‘revelatory’ collection is hailed as important beyond its size
Mark Brown Arts correspondent
22, Feb, 2021 @2:41 PM
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