Art and design, photography and architecture
Art & design
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Other lives: Photographic artist whose ambition was to chart the four continents of human existence: mind, body, heart and soul -
Prodger’s film Bridgit takes the viewer inside her head as she searches for identity both at home and in the Scottish landscape. She talks about her early working life, encounters in public toilets and fighting the label ‘iPhone artist’
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‘New York in the mid-70s was a giant open-air gay bar. People were having casual sex with whoever went by. It was literally too many men, not enough time’ -
Institution vows to defend ‘legal right’ to Victorious Youth statue discovered off Pesaro in 1964 -
Irish travellers, a drifter in Los Angeles, a Rohingya refugee and a young mother in Ecuador: these are some of the striking entries for Portrait of Humanity
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4 out of 5 stars.
Martin Creed Martin Creed: Toast review – postcards from the hedge
4 out of 5 stars. -
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The Bradford-born artist has been photographing Britain for 40 years, documenting the decline of industry, the rise of consumer culture, and the disenfranchisement of the British working class. -
From Lourdes to the Berlin metro, artists are continuing the tradition of stripping off in public – but is it still radical, or just lazy? -
American artist Tim Klein combines different jigsaw puzzles with fascinating and bizarre results
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Other lives: Modernist architect who designed airport all over the world -
South Milton, Devon: Thatching is a job to take your time over – you’ll be living with the results for 20 or 30 years -
Out-of-town shopping centres and online giants decimated our town centres – what can local spaces still offer that the internet can’t? -
The V&A reopens its Cast Courts, Turner Prize nominees are considered and Theseus slays the Minotaur – all in our weekly dispatch
Visual arts
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For a world in shock, WW1 prompted a unique outpouring of creative expression. Our panel of experts pick their favourites -
The Assyrian empire in all its glory, human psychology from Lorenzo Lotto and Patrick Heron by the seaside -
For a New York duo, carving pumpkins is their business – but at Halloween they make something extra special
You may have missed
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London gallery to light up season with anarchic artist’s Attenborough-inspired work -
The V&A’s restoration of its masterly collection of replicas of great European works of art - from Trajan’s Column to Michelangelo’s David - is a timely reminder of the Victorians’ cultural Europhilia
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Walton Bridges, thought to be from 1806, at risk of leaving UK unless a buyer can be found -
4 out of 5 stars.
The war-scarred French artist painted the texture of the 20th century in all its kaleidoscopic confusion. But amid the jumble is also a celebration of ordinary life, work and leisure
Gerard Unger obituary