Albert Potrony’s exhibition turns Gatehead’s Baltic into a giant creche, inspired by a radical Dutch playground architect and the forgotten feminist men’s movement of the early 70sFor most parents, the ritual of pushing your child on a swing or kicking…
‘I think about everyone I save’: the mine clearance hero of Kurdistan
Hoshyar Ali has cleared more than 750,000 landmines in 104 villages, despite having lost both legs to landmines. Iraqi Kurdistan is one of the most contaminated countries for landmines and explosive remnants of war, according to a report by the United …
Francis Bacon estate implies artist’s friend created parts of Tate collection
New book says many pieces in Barry Joule Archive bear ‘scant resemblance’ to artist’s work, but donor insists they are realThe Estate of Francis Bacon has launched an astonishing personal attack on Barry Joule, one of the artist’s friends, and the vast…
‘My art is a protest’: disrupting ideas about black people in British rural areas
Madinah Farhannah Thompson’s art is informed by her experience as a black primary schoolchildGrowing up as one of the only black pupils at her primary school in Norwich, Madinah Farhannah Thompson says she felt isolated and that it affected her mental …
A happy baby on a train: Dina Alfasi’s best phone picture
‘That the young girl in the foreground was a soldier with a gun on her knee is an integral part of that moment’Dina Alfasi has often said that her favourite place to shoot is on the train. It’s not only a mobile studio with, as she puts it, great natur…
How one family turned a derelict garage into a home
Thanks to an online search error, an architect transformed a tumbledown building into a three-bedroom houseMelanie Schubert and partner Paolo Vimercati didn’t set out to buy a derelict double garage when they were looking for a new home. In one online…
Going out, staying in: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment
Whether it is a live gig, a new film or a game to play at home, our critics have your plans for this week covered Continue reading…
Flayed and depraved: the Tunisian film that satirises the art world
Yahya Mahayni, the Syrian star of The Man Who Sold His Skin, discusses Kaouther Ben Hania’s Oscar-nominated work, depictions of refugees on screen and working with Monica BellucciThe first thing we see in The Man Who Sold His Skin is human hide: flayed…
Chelsea flower show 2021 – in pictures
The small details catch photographer Sarah Lee’s eye at the late season show Continue reading…
Gold of the Great Steppe review – the breathtaking lives of history’s ‘barbarians’
Fitzwilliam Museum, CambridgeFrom their astounding burial mounds to their dazzling horses dressed up as mythical beasts, this exhibition about Kazakhstan’s ancient nomads shows the power of archaeology to revive the deadA young archer was buried around…