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The painter on sexism, subverting Englishness and the dangers of treating art solely as capital
As her new works stand watch over the Met, the Kenyan-American sculptor talks about reshaping art history
‘Beauty is one of the most powerful ways that we have to talk about justice’
The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of ‘The Return’ on his unique approach to appreciating art
Qantas’s New York to Sydney flight aims to be the world’s longest — but it is not for the faint-hearted
The show, which features 20 works at Rockefeller Center, represents a strategic attempt by the fair to become more accessible
An interview with the biodesign guru whose stunning innovations fuse science and art
Self-care evokes a fraught tangle of wealth, aesthetics and politics, but it also has a radical intellectual lineage
A San Francisco-set novel uses illness as metaphor to illuminate the emotional management we all perform daily
Fashion’s fiercest fabric is back — and it’s in fighting form
A short story collection animated by a jazzy, generous spirit
Under Trump, the icons of the US wardrobe have taken on new significance — for the right and the left
A sly and unexpected novel asks how some thrive in spite of trauma while others fall apart in the face of success
An exhibition of lavish and odd official gifts presented to Queen Elizabeth II over the past 65 years
A delicate novel about grief, heritage and the role of death in life
Arts and business leaders share their best holiday memories — and their top travel tips
The photographs are plain, shot mostly indoors in black-and-white, and have a certain affectionate sloppiness
The photographer divides his life and his work between Nigeria, where he was born, and the Bronx, New York, where he lives
Clear and understated short stories by the inventor of the Moomins
The tabloid photographer’s images share a sense of live, wheeling human spectacle, like sweatier, grittier Where’s Wally tableaux
Many of the subjects seem almost dislocated in time and space
The photographs have a precariousness and grimy immediacy
A critic argues for a vision of the essay as diverse, teeming and contradictory
The German artist collected old photographs and then overlaid the images with the scrawled ephemera from the photo backs
In the Welsh photographer’s images, ordinary objects resolve into units of colour, light and shape
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