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Art & design

  • Our impact on nature … a winning image by Zed Nelson.

    Apes, toilets, conflicts and cowboys: Sony World Photography awards – in pictures

  • A painting showing the word 'art' in capital letters, partially obscured by stylised reflections

    Pop goes the budget: Roy Lichtenstein works expected to raise £26m at auction

    Forty of the late pop artist’s distinctive works will go under the hammer at Sotheby’s in New York next month
  • a painting of people standing on the shore of a lake

    ‘A self-described art thief’: how Wayne Thiebaud channeled other artists

    The late painter was known for his masterly reinterpretations of famous works but also his own, wide-ranging originals
  • Central Saint Martin prospectuses by Martin Lee for Jannuzzi Smith

    Martin Lee obituary

  • Adrian Collette at senate estimates

    Embattled Creative Australia boss served angry letters from staff and 600 literary figures amid Sabsabi fallout

  • Penitents line a street carrying candles and crucifixes

    A sultan’s banquet, Holy Week and Welsh gold: photos of the day – Wednesday

  • Klaas Roemers, 90, and Fenny Roemers-Visser, 86, holding hands. The photograph was taken, with permission, by their son Martin moments after their deaths. They had applied to end their lives under the Netherlands' assisted dying process

    My parents holding hands after their assisted deaths: Martin Roemers’ most personal photograph

Reviews

  • 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

  • Toby Jones and Saskia Reeves in Nurses Come and Go, But None for Me, 2025 by Ed Atkins and Steven Zultanski.

    Art
    Ed Atkins review – a portrait of the artist in turmoil

  • Are they real? … some of the outdoor exhibits in the show.

    Art
    Giuseppe Penone review – an ecstatic realm where trees and humans merge

Photography

  • Prepare to dive … research engineer Aurore Molé in a survival suit.

    Underwater Argonauts! The deep-sea scientists logging Med pollution – in pictures

  • Christians in Jerusalem

    In pictures: Palm Sunday around the world

    The annual Christian feast day marks Jesus Christ’s entry into Jerusalem by means of the palm fronds waved in celebration of his arrival
  • Olivia, from the series At Twelve by Sally Mann.

    The big picture: Sally Mann captures girls on the cusp of womanhood

    For her classic series At Twelve, the American photographer created a collective portrait of adolescent girls, including world-weary Olivia pictured in her yard

Architecture

  • 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

  • Sheffield<br>The Sheffield Hallam University Student Union building is one of a number of 'Historic ' buildings of Architectural interest across the UK that is under consideration for redevelopment. Sheffield, UK.

    ‘It’s unjust’: charity fights to save UK’s at-risk modern buildings

  • Lewis Braithwaite

    Lewis Braithwaite obituary

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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