A small team of ecologists and scientists are working to find new ways to bolster populations of Australia’s endangered native animals Continue reading…
Twenty photographs of the week
The Taliban take over Kabul after the US withdrawal, Extinction Rebellion in London, protests in Gaza and Hurricane Ida – the most striking images from around the world this week Continue reading…
Timothy Spall’s teenage obsessions: ‘For my art A-level I nailed up apples covered in pubic hair’
The actor on studying with the Sex Pistols, being in a Bowie tribute act, the appeal of Roxy Music, the help of teachers and the power of surrealism Continue reading…
Forgotten village near Paris airport – in pictures
The Vieux Pays of Goussainville should have disappeared during the construction of the Charles de Gaulle airport in the 70s, however some inhabitants resisted the takeover of their houses and continue to live there despite the noise and isolation Conti…
Unending horizons: water, air and light – in pictures
Seascapes is a series of photographs made by Paul Rousteau while artist-in-residence on a boat in Australia’s Coral Sea. Inspired by the beauty around him, Rousteau took to the darkroom to invent images of his own to bring out the barest constituent el…
Charlie Watts, Miles Davis, John and Yoko … and other David Bailey wonders – in pictures
The celebrated photographer will open up his archive for the first time at Photo London – with portraits of the Rolling Stones, Michael Caine and Jerry Hall on display Continue reading…
‘Forgotten masters’: auction shines light on India’s overlooked artists
Paintings commissioned by East India Company in 18th and 19th century up for sale at Sotheby’sRemarkable paintings of the flora and fauna of India, including a work once owned by Jackie Kennedy Onassis depicting a stork eating a snail, are to go on sal…
‘This place is on the move’: how artists are reviving Cornwall’s St Austell
Project including UK’s tallest ceramic sculpture is raising profile of town often overlooked by holidaymakersTourists have long tended to bypass the Cornish town of St Austell on their way to the surfing beaches of Cornwall’s north coast or the bays an…
Luma Arles review – Frank Gehry, a billionaire and a wonderland of good intentions
Parc des Ateliers, Arles, FranceGehry’s crumpled metal tower is the glittering icon of a new cultural campus in the south of France where high ideals and extravagance feel at oddsI am looking at a wall surfaced in salt. It is the wall of a lift lobby i…
Tokyo Paralympics 2020: day five – in pictures
The best images from the fourth day’s action in Tokyo, including triathlon, wheelchair rugby and long jump Continue reading…