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Art & design

  • Klimt’s Portrait of Fräulein Lieser in an auction house.

    Lost Gustav Klimt painting sells for €30m at auction in Vienna

  • Dandelions in a meadow against a clear blue sky.

    Clock this delightful paean to dandelions

    Brief letters: Country diary | Isfahan’s sights | Dilyn the dog’s fleas | Bald truths | Pate expectations
  • You lookin’ at me? … Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.

    The world’s most disappointing masterpiece: why does the Mona Lisa leave so many people underwhelmed?

    Online, Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting is the subject of thousands of negative reviews – on display at the Louvre, it is deluged with visitors. Is the problem the artwork or the stressful experience of seeing it?
  • Alter Altar by Jasleen Kaur at Tramway, Glasgow.

    This Turner prize shortlist is one in the eye for petty nationalists

    Adrian Searle
  • Liam Pieper’s Appreciation and Bri Lee’s The Work

    Critics, cancellation and cleanskin wine: the Australian novels satirising the art world

  • On the way to Santa Paula … the road trip from LA in an old Merc.

    The photography studio with four wheels and a sunroof: Adali Schell’s best shot

  • Claudette Johnson’s with her portrait of the African American Sarah Parker Remond

    Claudette Johnson’s art for Cotton Capital nominated for Turner prize

Reviews

  • Wassily Kandinsky, Improvisation Deluge, 1913. Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus

    Art
    Expressionists review – the vivid premonitions of Europe’s wildest-eyed geniuses

  • Exterior view of the space in which to place me (Jeffrey Gibson’s exhibition for the United States Pavilion, 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia), April 20 – November 24, 2024. Forecourt sculpture: the space in which to place me (2024).

    Venice Biennale 2024
    Armed guards, reparations and the lives of others: Venice Biennale 2024 – review

  • Voices from the ether come and go … John Akomfrah’s British pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

    Venice Biennale
    John Akomfrah’s British pavilion at Venice Biennale review – a magnificent and awful journey

  • Hypnotic and cinematic … The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula, 1610, with a cameo by Caravaggio who is pictured behind Ursula.

    Art and design
    The Last Caravaggio review – a gripping and murderously dark finale

Photography

  • ‘What could be a more fitting symbol of British suburbia?’ … photographer Gareth Gardner was transfixed by this hedge in Cheshire.

    ‘This one’s like a castle!’ The hunt for the world’s wildest, daftest and most beautiful hedges

  • Cool waves … Little West 12th August 28 2023 by Pelle Cass

    Subways, sphinxes and the Stones: highlights from NYC’s Photography Show – in pictures

    A cover shoot for New York magazine and the subversive work of Lee Miller join a selection from top galleries at Aipad’s photography bonanza
  • THRESHOLDS at the German Pavilion & La Certosa.

    A lost astronaut, looted treasure and a hit naked Turk: the 60th Venice Biennale – in pictures

    From the thrice-daily Swan Lake to a tragedy in an asbestos factory, Guardian photographer David Levene went behind the scenes at the ‘Art Olympics’

Architecture

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Why are celebrities destroying multimillion dollar mansions?

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • CGI depicting proposed South East Faversham development

    Is Kent ready for the Duchy of Cornwall’s next Poundbury?

  • Rowan Moore

    Saudi Arabia’s 105-mile long Line city has been cut a little short – by 103.5 miles

    Rowan Moore
  • CMAT, AKA Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson.

    On my radar: CMAT’s cultural highlights

Visual arts

  • Horn of plenty … a tapestry fragment from Flanders, c1500.

    Artistic unicorns, protest ceramics and queer art from Morocco – the week in art

  • Caravaggio’s The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula, 1610.

    Death-defying darkness, thought-provoking pop art and unrepentant nudes – the week in art

    Caravaggio proves haunting, Yinka Shonibare brings colonial figures down to size and Monica Sjöö photographs the goddess feminism – all in your weekly dispatch
  • Gallery assistants pose with a participatory installation entitled Add Colour (Refugee Boat) during the press preview of Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind exhibition at Tate Modern in London on 13 February 2024.

    Let’s tell the story of art without men

    Letters: Dr Suzy Tutchell champions the work of past and present female artists, while Caroline Higgitt takes Francesco Vezzoli’s challenge
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