Architecture & Design
Images from the outer limits
Outsider photography is still relatively unknown, but three artists in a forthcoming show at the Hayward Gallery explore the dark fringes of urban society through images ranging from the obsessive to the downright creepy A homeless woman who regularly...
Saatchi gallery hosts display of dictators in their youth
The young faces of boys who grew up to be some of the world's worst dictators have gone on public display at the Saatchi gallery in west London as part of an exhibition devoted to paper.
Turning papermaking into an artform
It was a bright idea of the Saatchi Gallery to hold an exhibition of paper. It's such a wonderful, tactile material.
Memory Palace, Victoria & Albert Museum, review
Digital technology may have thrown up almost limitless possibilities for the creation of new media and the transformation of old ones, but the book and the exhibition – those hoary beasts of the communication field – have proved remarkably resilient to...
Jeremy Deller's visions of England
The spirit of Albion, as conjured in the British pavilion at the Venice Biennale, makes for some surprising and dramatic connections. The Turner-winning artist explains his thinking 'Things obsess me," Jeremy Deller says, "but I don't think of myself...
Art review: Curiosity- Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside
To say that Curiosity: Art and the Pleasures of Knowing is a strange show is only to praise it, since that is what it sets out to be. It succeeds, in spades. The exhibition, in Margate, also means to be wonderful, and it pulls that off, too, in the...
Heavenly Bodies: Michael Landy's artistic marriage made in heaven... and hell
The master of destruction meets the martyrs of Faith.
Things get curiouser and curiouser at the Turner Contemporary
From Da Vinci to a stuffed walrus to glass models of underwater worlds, a rich selection of objects is about to go display at the Turner Contemporary, as curator Brian Dillon explains Consider this curious item of furniture, which belongs to the...
ArtWorks Scotland: Spinning a Yarn: The Dubious History of Scottish Tartan
The story of tartan. Taking in the Englishmen who forged a guide to clan tartans, Walter Scott's tartan pageant of 1822 and the 21st-century Scottish Register of Tartans.
Gaudí's Catalan shadow: the art of Josep Maria Jujol
The old man fiddled with the keys, peered rheumily in turn at three or four, then with a grunt chose one. The key slipped into the ornate ironwork keyhole and the door opened. I stepped into a deep gloom and the caretaker shuffled off through the...