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Art & design

  • Shrigley stands in front of a nine-metre sculpture of a giant mantis

    David Shrigley urges schools to prioritise arts – with aid of giant mantis

  • Final Cut, Illustrated and Credit to Charles Burns.

    ‘I was high, drawing my self-portrait in a toaster’: the thrilling return of graphic novelist Charles Burns

    The comics artist’s book Black Hole made him a cult hero, revered for his horror-tinged tales of US teens. He talks about the memory that broke chronic writer’s block – and why his books haven’t been filmed
  • people looking at blown up photos of children's beds on a street

    Empty Beds: a mural highlights the abduction of Ukrainian children

    Artist Phil Buehler has constructed a reminder of the almost 20,000 kids taken by Russian forces, on show in Little Ukraine, Manhattan
  • Sheep rag rug from the 1960s designed by Mary Bewick.

    October design news: a teeny tiny toffee, rag rugs and $1 watches

  • Defying the stereotype ... Remedios Varo’s Creation of the Birds, 1957.

    Dressing up as a witch at Halloween? The sickening origins of this caricature may make you think again

  • Idyllic landscape panting with a woman holding a bird, children, horses, and a Moomin

    Tove Jansson murals, with hidden Moomins, seen for first time in Helsinki show

  • All fall down … Glasgow’s uninhabitable Red Road flats being demolished in 2015.

    The ransacking of Britain: why the people finally rose up against ‘sod you architecture’

Reviews

  • Surrounded, 1996, by Tim Burton - a colourful drawing of five friendly looking monsters, closing in on Earth, mouths open.

    Design
    The World of Tim Burton review – a tour around a singular creative mind

  • ‘Homely horror’ … work from the film Corpse Bride at The World of Tim Burton.

    Art and design
    The World of Tim Burton review – Johnny Depp’s scissorhands can’t cut through the cobwebs and corpses

  • Subversive grandeur … works by Małgorzata Mirga-Tas at Tate St Ives.

    Art
    Małgorzata Mirga-Tas review – vivid, joyful stitchings from the Pole who shook Venice

  • An aerial view of the Alexandra Road Estate, London, designed to back on to the west coast mainline, left.

    Architecture
    Tight corners, red tape and amazing grace – why architects love a tricky site

Photography

  • Caitlin Hall of Salamander Bay with Lenni, 1 year old, all dressed up for their first time at the festival.

    Longdogs, lowriders and creative weiners: Dachshtober Longdog Festival – in pictures

  • Girls in a school room, one of them with her feet up on the desk

    Where punk meets Catholicism: Andrea Modica’s portraits of 1980s schoolgirls

    While a photography student at Yale, Modica visited her old school and found the captivating subject she’d been looking for: teens whose big hair, eyeliner and rolled-up skirts still radiate personality decades later
  • A woman in a maroon coat and dark gloves on an escalator

    The big picture: Dolorès Marat’s Paris, city of intrigue

    The French photographer’s painterly portrait of a woman in a metro station hints at the unknowableness of everyday urban life

Architecture

  • HMP Wandsworth in London. Photograph: Andrew Aitchison/Corbis/Getty

    ‘Places to heal, not to harm’: why brutal prison design kills off hope – podcast

  • Lauren Halsey photographed for the Observer New Review in October 2024.

    Artist Lauren Halsey: ‘So much of what I make is in response to the context of funk’

  • Notre Dame with cranes and scaffolding

    Row erupts over plan to charge €5 to enter fire-hit Notre Dame

  • ‘These are sacred spaces’ … a residence in the village of Hășdat.

    Bring on the Vegas glitz! How Roma families are defying their persecutors with bling palaces

Visual arts

  • From left: Leonid Marushchak, Yevhen Sternichuk and Marharita Kravchenko.

    Ukraine’s death-defying art rescuers

  • Leonid Marushchak with an art work by Ukrainian ceramicist Nina Fedorova, from his personal collection.

    Ukraine’s art evacuators: the intrepid team rescuing art from a warzone – in pictures

    After Russia’s invasion in 2022, historian Leonid Marushchak saw that Ukraine’s cultural heritage was under threat too. So he vowed to get to these irreplaceable works before Putin’s forces could
  • Embracing ambiguity … Dumas at her new exhibition in the Frith Street Gallery.

    ‘Art may be a pact with the devil’: the great Marlene Dumas on her darkly provocative art

    She pours or even tosses paint on to a canvas – to see where it takes her. The results range from myths to massacres, bound heads to Satan. In a rare interview, the great artist reveals what drives her
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