In lockdown in Galway City, Burke focused on the bright side – creating gaudily retro, deadpan tableaux with his parents in all the starring rolesEnda Burke spent lockdown with his parents in Galway City on the west coast of Ireland. As a street photog…
The big picture: the black body redefined
Pioneering young black photographer Dana Scruggs’s celebration of movement and formThe headline act at this summer’s photography festival in Arles is an exhibition devoted to the young black photographers who are – literally – changing the face (and bo…
The apples of an artist’s eye – in pictures
Artist William Mullan’s obsession with apples began in Waitrose in Esher, Surrey. An American kid who moved a lot with his dad’s job, Mullan’s eye was first caught by the Egremont Russet. “It was the ugliest apple I had ever seen. It looked like a gold…
Portrait of Queen ‘looking like a corgi’ to feature in Lucian Freud exhibition
National Gallery will mark centenary of Freud’s birth by bringing together his most important worksIt was hailed by the Guardian as the finest royal portrait for 150 years. Others thought it made the Queen look like a rugby prop forward or one of her c…
Dame Elizabeth Blackadder obituary
Celebrated artist admired for her paintings of flowers and the first woman to be elected to both the Royal and Royal Scottish academiesIn 1994, the year that Damien Hirst made his first vitrined sheep, Away from the Flock, pickled in formaldehyde, the …
Ansel Adams, Brassaï and Bill Brandt sitting on a bench: Paul Joyce’s best photograph
‘Ansel asked me if I was using his “zone system”. When I said I had my own method, he said I was probably using his unconsciously’ In 1976, I was working at the Photographers’ Gallery in London. The great Hungarian-French photographer Brassaï had an ex…
Baby on Nevermind cover sues Nirvana over child sexual exploitation
Spencer Elden, who appeared at four months old on iconic album design, claims the image is child pornographySpencer Elden, who appeared as a naked baby on one of rock music’s most iconic album covers – Nevermind by Nirvana – is suing the band, claiming…
August Design News: wooden bags, concrete coral, political pottery
News from London Design Festival, Swedish fabrics and America’s citizen photographersAfter a long break, the design world is coming to life again. London Design Festival (LDF) is back and bigger than ever this year. There will be three more design dist…
Silence is golden: the archives of Charlie Chaplin – in pictures
A new edition of an expansive Taschen book collates the vast archives of the much-loved star with an oral history of the man and his films and further treasures Continue reading…
Skyfall, Sicario and sheep: Roger Deakins on Bond and beyond – in pictures
The Oscar-winning cinematographer has collaborated with the Coen brothers and Sam Mendes – but a new book shows off his skills as a still photographer Continue reading…