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Alasdair McLellan’s new book is a love letter to British youth
Force of Life
Life, death and polka dot pumpkins: Yayoi Kusama at Guggenheim Bilbao
pow, pow, pow
Commissioned by Saint Laurent, artist Cai Guo-Qiang sends colourful fireworks into the sky
Orphaned Works
Inside the dark, twisted art exhibition of Enfants Riches Déprimés designer Henri Alexander Levy
I Have Never Been To America
Filip Koludrovic’s America is generated by AI
Wednesday Art Idol
August Sander: the pioneering German documentary photographer who captured the face of a nation
Sarah Lucas: interrogating gender norms through euphemism and innuendo
Claude Cahun: the French surrealist who inspired Cindy Sherman and Nan Goldin
Helen Levitt: a pioneer of street photography who captured the theatre of daily life in New York
Jenny Saville: the British painter challenging body norms with studies in human flesh
Joan Miró: the Spanish surrealist who inspired Dalí and Magritte
Gerhard Richter: the German master of abstraction reconciling memories of war
SUPERFLEX: the Danish public art collective re-drawing lines of civic power
Forensic Architecture: the architectural detective agency uncovering global human rights abuses
Gillian Wearing: the Turner Prize-winning artist peeling back layers of the human psyche
Bio brilliance
Learn about the pioneering Glastonbury pavilion made from mushroom roots
Home is Not a Place
This new exhibition poses the question: what is Black Britain?
Ideal home
Ann Demeulemeester has designed the exact furniture you’d expect Ann Demeulemeester to design
Essential reading
Queer mountain lions and teenage beauty queens: HERO’s summer 2023 reading list
The new issue of Acne Paper builds a house designed by artistic greats
No posers. Locals only
Gnarly: Aries and David Ledoux capture the free-spirited surf and skate culture of Biarritz
Writer in Residence
John M Coetzee is the first author of Loewe’s ‘Writing the Prado’ programme
Under The Hammer
Louise Bourgeois has set a record-breaking sale at Sotheby’s
Night in the Garden of Love
Shezad Dawood’s new exhibition is an immersive digital jazz garden
Metanoia
This year’s Loewe Craft Prize winning sculpture looks like it was carved in space
Zines
Ari Marcopoulos’ latest book invites us into his creative community
Open now
The images you’ll love at this year’s Photo London
Skins, revisited
“One image can change the history of anything” – Gavin Watson on being the photographer of a generation
Exclusive Excerpt
Masturbatory Reader: Sticky Fingers Publishing are asking us to reconsider the power of the erotic in literature
Player one
Hit play on the gameplay artworld of Gabriel Massan