'We weren't shy. We were queers in leather!' Sunil Gupta on his powerful photographs of gay life
“I’ve been very promiscuous,” Sunil Gupta says, looking back on his experiments with photography since the 1970s. Born in India,…
Category: Art and design
Art and design
"We have to become warriors": the fight to save the world's only sculpture park dedicated to women.
Ten years ago, while studying for an MA in art history at the Courtauld Institute in London, Claire Mander came…
"The door slid open and my jaw dropped." These are astonishing sculptures that only 20 people have ever seen.
Ray Exworth spent six decades creating one of Britain’s most extraordinary collections of sculpture—and almost no one has seen it.…
Ana Mendieta review – if she were still alive, she would be at the forefront of art in this century.
A huge color photo of a ruined ancient site greets you at the entrance to Ana Mendieta’s captivating exhibition, and…
"The beauty of the useless": Spain's super-thin restaurant napkins are disposable art treasures.
If you’ve ever eaten at a bar, café, or restaurant in Spain and grabbed a napkin from one of those…
"The doorbell rang at 5 a.m. Six masked men were outside." Belarus Free Theatre brings the terror of totalitarianism to the Venice Biennale.
In a studio on a quiet residential street in west Warsaw, a group of former political prisoners is cutting golden…
Has the world gotten tired of art biennials? Looking for a cure, a Portuguese festival is turning to anarchism.
If you ever decide to spend a night at Coimbra’s Monastery of Santa Clara-a-Nova, keep in mind that the place…
'I box to fight off my demons': Sue Webster opens up about drunken arguments, her exciting new projects, and becoming a mother at 52.
Sue Webster is reminiscing about the boozy art openings of the 1990s. A hazy memory surfaces of Damien Hirst riding…
The most innovative and influential design and architecture of 2025
1. V&A East Storehouse by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, London At the V&A East Storehouse, the collection itself steals the…