10: The long gallery, Chastleton House, Moreton-in-Marsh, 1607-1612
As part of our series exploring Britain's architectural wonders, the Observer's architecture critic introduces a spectacular interactive 360-degree panoramic view of this classic example of the Jacobean long gallery• Explore the Chastleton House long...
Juan Gabriel Vásquez at A Room for London
A Room for London is a small living space in the shape of the Roi des Belges - the boat in Joseph Conrad's novella The Heart of Darkness, which has been moored on the top of the South Bank as part of the Cultural Olympiad. For four days every month, as...
‘A life crammed with many separate talents’: Len Deighton remembers Ted Dicks
Tucked away behind the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, there is a row of hidden studios. During the second world war they were used by the Special Operations Executive to train agents who were about to be dropped into German-occupied Europe. Late...
Dorothea Tanning obituary
Painter, sculptor and poet with a vivid, dreamlike styleThe American artist Dorothea Tanning, who has died aged 101, was a talented painter whose reputation was confounded by her long marriage to the great surrealist Max Ernst. He figures prominently i...
Dorothea Tanning, surrealist artist, dies aged 101
Tanning was the last living member of the surrealist movement, wife of Max Ernst and published her first novel at the age of 94The artist Dorothea Tanning has died in New York aged 101. She was the last living member of the surrealist movement, whose c...
Lucian Freud: reflections of the artist
The looking glass was an important tool for Lucian Freud, but his work went far beyond mirror-play. As an exhibition of his portraits opens, his biographer and friend writes about his ruthless, confrontational realism"I really used the mirror as a devi...
Edmund de Waal on the potter Emmanuel Cooper, ‘a true democrat’
Emmanuel Cooper (obituary, 31 January) was a true democrat. He simply refused to see hierarchies that others thought were significant, bringing a motorbike into conjunction with a bowl by Lucie Rie as his examples of good craftsmanship for a 1982 exhib...
Emmanuel Cooper
Leading British potter and writer who became a gay rights activist in the 70sEmmanuel Cooper, who has died of cancer aged 73, was a leading British potter, who also became widely known as a writer, editor, critic, biographer, teacher, broadcaster, cura...
David Shrigley: one of the cleverest, funniest conceptual artists
Cartoon or work of art? From his stuffed animals to slogan teatowels, Shrigley's work is simple but profoundIt's the image everyone knows best – so well known that we're not even going to use it as an illustration here: a Jack Russell, stuffed, stand...
Graphic novelist Craig Thompson on the making of Habibi – in pictures
Craig Thompson charts the creation of his graphic epic Habibi from first thoughts to finished pagesCraig Thompson
