Most items in the museum’s new theatre and performing arts galleries going on display for the first timeA fabulous red dress and thigh-high leather boots worn by Lola the drag queen in the musical Kinky Boots are to go on display near to what many woul…
Simone Lia: Thoughtful – cartoon
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The big picture: a moment of downtime by cinematographer Roger Deakins
The Oscar-winning film-maker’s image, shot on a vintage train in Germany, features in a new book of his off-duty documentary photographyLong before he was a cinematographer, Roger Deakins was a photographer. The film-maker’s eye that has earned Deakins…
On my radar: Paula Hawkins’s cultural highlights
The author of The Girl on the Train on discovering Alison Bechdel, identifying with Physical, and her favourite new crime novelBorn in Zimbabwe in 1972, author Paula Hawkins studied PPE at Oxford University before joining the Times as a business journa…
Top dips: synchronised swimmers snapped by Eva Watkins – in pictures
“I dreamed that I was a synchronised swimmer performing with a group of people,” says London-based photographer Eva Watkins, who often gets inspiration for projects while half-asleep or dreaming. The reverie sparked a new series taken at Bristol’s Henl…
Twenty photographs of the week
The fall of Kabul, forest fires in California and the earthquake in Haiti – the most striking images from around the world this week Continue reading…
Chuck Close obituary
Painter of huge portraits that explored the relationship between painting and photographyIn the 1960s Chuck Close, fresh from art school, was sitting in a New York restaurant when Jasper Johns walked in, passing by his fellow diners in total anonymity …
The Guardian view on the Art Fund Museums Prize: serving communities | Editorial
The past year has rightly shifted the way that cultural value is estimatedIn living memory, there has been no worse year for museums and galleries, along with many other arts organisations. With closure forced on them by the pandemic, they were unable …
In your face: how Chuck Close built images and tore them apart
Face blindness meant the photorealist artist, who has died aged 81, had to dismantle and reconstitute, making every cell of his pixellated portraits ever more dramaticChuck Close, painter of outsized photorealist portraits, dies aged 81Hugely enlarged,…
Our art deals with real injustices, some in Palestine: no wonder we faced opposition « Forensic Architecture
Our battle to restore a statement to a Manchester exhibition was really about what can and can’t be said in cultural spacesOn Wednesday, protesters in Manchester reclaimed one of the city’s main cultural institutions. Despite the rain, pro-Palestine ac…