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Art & design

  • IV - King Estates . Snowflake’s Progress is the first solo exhibition from multi-award winning cartoonist and illustrator Ben Jennings. The project is a contemporary adaptation of William Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress, and follows a character over a series of 8 artworks that offer snapshots of British life set over the past 14 years of Tory rule.

    ‘It’s like Where’s Wally in broken Britain’: Ben Jennings on his Tory-era take on A Rake’s Progress

  • Get On Your Bike, from Snowflake’s Progress.

    Buy a Ben Jennings signed print from his exhibition - Snowflake’s Progress

    Snowflake’s Progress is the first solo exhibition from multi-award winning Guardian cartoonist Ben Jennings, a contemporary adaptation of William Hogarth’s famous 18th-century work A Rake’s Progress
  • A man sitting on a wall in Tower Hamlets council estate in the 1990s

    From protests to dancing in the street: East London’s Bengali community – in pictures

    Photography: the lives of London’s Bengali community
  • ‘Amazing and often drunk’ … Funny Sonny packing with Zipco, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1965

    Rebel riders: on the road with a 1960s biker gang – in pictures

  • Untitled #80 (1980).

    Cindy Sherman: ‘Little girls play dress-up – but I was always trying to be a monster instead of a fairy’

  • BRUCE EESLY New Farmer 2024-BRUC-10 Bruce Eesly. Peter Trimmel wins first prize for his UHY fennel at the Kooma Giants Show in Limburg, 1956, New Farmer series, 2023. Courtesy of the artist.

    Rencontres d’Arles: Toxic futures, shadowy pasts and jolly green dreams

  • People standing in a room with a large image of a model in a white dress on the wall

    Immersive Vogue show lifts curtain on catwalks past and present

Reviews

  • Davyd Burliuk, Carousel, 1921

    Art
    In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s review – a small yet blazing act of solidarity

  • Bearing witness to survival and growth … Being a Part of Her Growth, 2002.

    Art and design
    Lonnie Holley review – America’s wreckage made into magical art

  • 1992’s Totally Hair Barbie.

    Art and design
    Barbie: The Exhibition review – the wonder doll’s evolution, from Gehry homes to ‘gay Ken’

  • Red swirling tentacles … split obliteration 2024, Dominique White, from Dominique White: Deadweight at Whitechapel Gallery, London.

    Art and design
    Dominique White: Deadweight review – a beautiful, twisted sea monster

Photography

  • A sloping sliver building on a hilltop at sunset

    World Architecture festival 2024 shortlist – in pictures

  • Dancers leaping in wild shapes

    ‘My flash kept blinding everyone on the dancefloor’: Elaine Constantine on capturing 90s northern soul all-nighters

    The UK photographer took these powerful shots of northern soul nights 30 years ago. Now collected in a new book and exhibition, they offer an intimate glimpse of a peculiarly British subculture
  • Commuters, Evening Train, Penn Station, New York, 1958 (detail).

    The big picture: Louis Stettner on commuters in 1950s New York

    The American photographer’s connection with his countrymen shines through in portraits of people going about their daily lives

Architecture

  • Site specific … the screens documenting the builders’ work at madskills: Self-Documenting Construction on Social Media.

    My bricklayer’s gone viral! Why construction workers are the new social media stars

  • Roger Walker’s 1973 complex Park Mews in Wellington’s Hataitai district

    ‘I may have reacted too far’: architect Roger Walker on his groundbreaking buildings

  • A platform with stone blocks overlooks the ocean and an overcast sky

    Sydney firm scoops top NSW architecture prize for rebuild of North Head viewing platforms

  • DO NOT USE!! CURRENTLY AWAITING PUBLICATION DATE Saturday magazine Interiors feature - Cowshed

    ‘A nearby farmer took the whole herd’: how a couple turned a cowshed into a dream home for artists

Visual arts

  • 327 questionable art

    Simone Lia: Questionable art – cartoon

  • Gavin Jantjes, Freedom Hunters, 1977.

    Anti-apartheid art, Keith Haring graffiti and new life for fallen trees – the week in art

    A retrospective of South African artist Gavin Jantjes, new works by Zanele Muholi and Charles Lutyens’ insights as an art therapist
  • Sharpening the Saws by Oleksandr Bohomazov, 1927.

    Giants of Ukrainian art, Henry Moore goes to war and Chris Ofili’s myth making – the week in art

    A showcase of modernist greats from Malevich to Delaunay, the Yorkshire sculptor’s Blitz drawings and Ofili’s tapestry returns home to Scotland – all in your weekly dispatch
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