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...
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...
Unstill lives: Tate Britain’s Migrations exhibition
A new show at London's Tate Britain raises profound questions about the fluidity of art – and who we areWhere does art start? People were at it on pots long before they carried pigments into their caves at Lascaux. Migrations, a startlingly original ...
The month in photography – audio slideshow
Our guide to the month's best photo exhibitions and books – featuring Pieter Hugo, Eve Arnold, William Eggleston, Don McCullin and Annie LeibovitzJim Powell
The month in photography – audio slideshow
Our guide to the month's best photo exhibitions and books – featuring Pieter Hugo, Andreas Gursky, Bruce Davidson, Chloe Dewe Mathews, Terry Richardson and Don McCullinJim Powell
Charles Dickens’s London of dirt and despair captured in evocative exhibition
Paintings of Victorian poverty go on display alongside rare manuscripts in the first museum show on the author in 40 yearsAlex Werner, curator of the first major museum show on Charles Dickens for more than 40 years, says one of his favourite exhibits ...
Christian Patterson goes on the trail of America’s natural born killers
The Brooklyn photographer's latest book, Redheaded Peckerwood, is strange and beautiful despite its subject – an epic killing spree that has haunted America since 1958In January 1958, Charles Starkweather, a 20 year-old from Lincoln in Nebraska, and ...
What the Dickens? Exhibition reveals novelist’s spooky plagiarism scare
Author's bicentennial exhibition at British Library has material showing Victorian rival's claim to have written same ghost storyThe spirits which terrorise and ultimately reform Scrooge in A Christmas Carol may have been due to a nightmare brought on,...
Edward Burra, transgressive painter of English countryside and dockside bars
His cabbages are sinister and his barmaids are transvestites. Edward Burra's watercolours of rural England and Marseilles and Harlem street life are wonderfully distortingNo one has ever been sure what to do with Edward Burra, the British painter whose...
Royal Manuscripts: British Library lights up the middle ages – in pictures
See highlights from a new London exhibition which brings to life illustrated books belonging to the kings and queens of medieval England
The month in photography – audio slideshow
Our guide to the month's best photo exhibitions and books – featuring Walker Evans, Terry Richardson, Bruce Davidson and Diane ArbusJim PowellAntonio OlmosAndy Hall
Manchester’s Alice in Wonderland exhibition
The Portico Library's charming exhibition which celebrates the most enduringly popular children's novel is worth a visitA charming exhibition celebrating the enduringly popular children's book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, is taking place at a Man...
