Science Weekly podcast: Jonah Lehrer on creativity and the brain
This week Alok Jha meets journalist and science writer Jonah Lehrer for an extended interview about his new book Imagine: How Creativity Works. Jonah's background is in neuroscience but he is best known for his popular science writing and is a contribu...
Saltaire Arts Trail welcomes the world
One of the north's best examples of a revived and flourishing industrial community is going artistically wild for the Bank Holiday weekendIn this cold and uninviting weather, the place to be is Saltaire near Bradford, which is holding its annual Arts T...
Seven Years by Peter Stamm – review
Iconic buildings figure strongly in this story of love among architectsThe seven years of Peter Stamm's title are part of its chronology but also carry biblical resonances that surface in the text – the seven years Jacob worked to earn the right...
Adrian Searle encounters … Luc Tuymans’s Allo!
The Guardian art critic journeys deep into the heart of darkness with Tuymans's Gauguin-themed painting, displayed in A Room for London, the boat perched on the Queen Elizabeth HallGallery: cast adrift in A Room for LondonWhen did I last get butt-naked...
Tyneside honours its famous engraver, Thomas Bewick
The great artist gave London a go but found its people cheeky. So he went back home and made his name in Newcastle and Gateshead. Alan Sykes flags up a new exhibitionMay 2012 is the bicentenary of Thomas Bewick moving across the Tyne from Newcastle to...
Alex Katz: pictures of pleasure
For 60 years, American artist Alex Katz has brought big colours and clean outlines to paintings that combine a billboard sensibility with a pop edge. They delight and unsettle in equal measureIt's a pleasure to look at Alex Katz's paintings, and at the...
Culture coach: The week’s essential arts stories
Every week I'll round up the biggest arts stories from around the web, recommend a long read and look ahead at what's coming upEach Thursday, I am going to round up the main arts stories of the week. Here's the first instalment.• It was Turner prize ...
David Weiss
As half of the Swiss art duo Fischli/Weiss, he made striking use of photography, film, clay – and questionsThe Swiss artist David Weiss, who has died aged 66 of cancer, belonged to one of the enduring partnerships of contemporary art, the duo Fischli...
From the Observer archive, 30 April 1967: In celebration of Britain’s answer to Mark Rothko
Art critic Robert Hughes is dazzled by John Hoyland's sensuous experiments with the application of colourIn most English painting since the war, colour has seldom been an issue. It was localised into blandness, it sat on the surface of the picture and ...
Mughal art: might in miniature
Eighteenth-century Delhi saw a cultural renaissance, as painters, poets and jewellers were entertained at the declining Mughal court. But today their exquisite art is under-appreciatedAt the peak of their power in the mid-17th century, the great M...
Worth its weight in paper: I love stationery – in pictures
National Stationery Day: a new book celebrates some inspirational craftsmen and women, working in paper and card
