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‘Every face tells a story’: Teresa Margolles on putting 740 trans lives on the fourth plinth
The artist has a studio attached to a morgue in Mexico City and uses fluids from corpses to make art. She talks about her latest project – placing the face casts of trans people in a giant cube...
Tracey Emin among hundreds opposing changes to Margate ‘brutalist masterpiece’
Managers of building in which Emin owns a flat want to replace windows but opponents say they are a key feature The 18-storey Arlington House in Margate has long been considered a brutalist mas...
Fifteen architecture firms shortlisted for NSW competition aimed at alleviating housing crisis
Six student teams named as finalists in pattern book contest to develop pre-approved designs and cut red tape Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email ,...
The Cumbrian barn-stormer: is Kurt Schwitters’ last masterpiece finally about to be restored?
The dada artist fled the Nazis and settled in a Lake District barn, which he turned into an astonishing work of art. We meet the replica-making craftsman hoping to make it whole again – and cre...
Solved: the mystery of how Victorians built Crystal Palace in just 190 days
Rapid assembly of structure for 1851 Great Exhibition in London was possible thanks to nut-and-bolt revolution It was built at unprecedented speed to exhibit the globe’s greatest treasures an...
Drone Awards 2024 – in pictures
A selection of the nominated images from this year’s Drone Awards . A winner will be announced on 28 September at the Siena World Photography Awards ceremony at the Teatro dei Rinnovati in Sie...
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/sep/16/drone-awards-2024-in-pictures
Ukraine’s death-defying art rescuers – podcast
When Putin invaded, a historian in Kyiv saw that Ukraine’s cultural heritage was in danger. So he set out to save as much of it as he could. By Charlotte Higgins Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2024/sep/16/ukraines-death-defying-art-rescuers-podcast
River Stour sculpture commemorates 16th century drowning that inspired Shakespeare
Figure of woman on her back underwater draws inspiration from Hamlet’s Ophelia and death of senior Tudor judge Almost 500 years ago, a wealthy and well-connected judge named Sir James Hales w...
John Sell obituary
My father, John Sell, who has died aged 79, spent his career championing the protection of historic buildings and spaces. After qualifying as an architect in the 1960s, John attended a course at ...
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/sep/15/john-sell-obituary
Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers review – eye-aching, heartbreaking and unmissable
NATIONAL GALLERY, LONDON Gathering together 61 of Vincent van Gogh’s masterpieces from around the world, the National Gallery’s once-in-a-lifetime show lets the art speak for itself At the ...
The big picture: Joseph Michael Lopez’s Manhattan moment
The photographer glimpses people caught in the glare of big-city street life, a place conflicted between epiphany and dystopia Joseph Michael Lopez lived in New York until the age of four, when...
Architects Caruso St John: ‘Developers are too powerful i...ntry. Everything is upped in terms of crudity and brashness’
The Stirling prize-winning duo’s new St Pancras Campus of homes and offices in London is a triumph of attention to detail. It could also be their last new-build, they tell us, as they focus on ...
From straw hats to milk bottles: why genius design doesn’t need to be expensive
Experts were invited to pick their hero products for London Design Festival show that redefines ‘well made’ for today Visitors to this year’s London design festival can expect to see eve...
High society: art, artists and the global role of drugs in culture
A new season of exhibitions in Norwich examines our ancient, complex and often destructive relationship with mind-altering substances, and asks what their ubiquity tells us about human nature P...
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/sep/13/why-do-we-take-drugs-sainsbury-centre-norwich
Recycled frocks and the world’s highest bungee platform: photos of the day – Friday
The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world Continue reading...
WarholMania review – lifting the lid on the ultimate self-promoter
Savoy House, London Two little-known American photographers offer juxtaposed perspectives on the iconic artist’s early period in New York with images that were almost lost to history One was ...
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/sep/13/warholmania-review-savoy-house-london
Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers review – a riveting rollercoaster ride from Arles to the stars
VAN GOGH: POETS AND LOVERS, NATIONAL GALLERY, LONDON This daring, dazzling exhibition gives us a thrilling sense of the artist’s transfiguring genius, showing how he remade the world around him...
Donna Huddleston: Company; Liorah Tchiprout: I love the flames, but not the embers – review
WHITE CUBE MASON’S YARD; PIPPY HOULDSWORTH GALLERY, LONDON Puzzling portraits mine the memory in Donna Huddleston’s stylised look at the 70s, while Liorah Tchiprout paints a cast of dolls ins...
Five of the best novels about art
Rachel Cusk, Raven Leilani and Hari Kunzru are among writers inspired by artists to find shape and form in their own works Stories about art and art-making are inherently metatextual. The anxie...
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 force...
Ukraine’s death-defying art rescuers
When Putin invaded, a historian in Kyiv saw that Ukraine’s cultural heritage was in danger. So he set out to save as much of it as he could In early March 2022, when his country seemed in dan...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/30/ukraine-death-defying-art-rescuers