The month in photography – audio slideshow
Our guide to the month's best photo exhibitions and books – featuring Anders Petersen, Alex Prager, Josef Koudelka and Stephanie SinclairJim Powell
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...
Katie Paterson, the cosmicomical artist
At her shows you can hear the sound of a star dying. Brian Dillon on the surprising charms of her artJust how small an object, or intervention in the world, can an artist make before the idea of a "work" drifts away on the wind? A couple of years ago a...
The month in photography – audio slideshow
Our guide to the month's best photo exhibitions and books – featuring Simon Norfolk, Weegee, Andy Hall, Roger Ballen and Eve ArnoldAndy HallJim Powell
Gillian Wearing; Patrick Keiller – review
Whitechapel Art Gallery; Tate Britain, LondonAt almost 50, Gillian Wearing is still making art to divide the audience. The curators of this show, for instance, appear moved by her little figurines of everyday heroes – a hoodie who turns out...
The best of British design
From the Mini to the iMac, the V&A celebrates six decades of innovation. Fiona MacCarthy, the Guardian's design writer when the country discovered its sense of style, reflects on a long tradition of iconoclasm and inventivenessThis year's V&A...
The best of British design
From the Mini to the iMac, the V&A celebrates six decades of innovation. Fiona MacCarthy, the Guardian's design writer when the country discovered its sense of style, reflects on a long tradition of iconoclasm and inventivenessThis year's V&A...
The month in photography – audio slideshow
Our guide to the month's best photo exhibitions and books – featuring William Eggleston, Weegee, Tim Hetherington, Ryan McGinley and Eve ArnoldJim Powell
The month in photography – audio slideshow
Our guide to the month's best photo exhibitions and books – featuring William Eggleston, Weegee, Tim Hetherington, Ryan McGinley and Eve ArnoldJim Powell
JMW Turner, the English Claude
A new exhibition charts the influence of Claude, the 17th-century landscape artist, on Turner. It led to a completely new chapter in British paintingJMW Turner was a strange man who painted some very strange pictures. He was the low-born child prodigy ...
Percy Kelly, the painter of hidden talent
He played football under Bill Shankly and impressed Winston Churchill. Galleries were eager to represent him. Yet fame eluded Percy Kelly. And he had a secret …Few artists draw as well as Percy Kelly did. It's said he learned to hold a pencil before ...
Pablo Picasso and his influence on British art
A new exhibition charts Picasso's influence on British artists from Wyndham Lewis to David Hockney. But who were the painter's oustanding collectors and advocates?"I came to the conclusion that he is probably one of the greatest geniuses that has ever ...
