Tate rubber-neckers, Dom in Dickens and restless nights
Continuing a new series, our writer goes sightseeing on Tate Modern’s viewing platform
From first kiss to unfollowing – culture that sums up love in 2020
A book redefining marriage, a riotous show about dating, the secret meanings of breakup songs and a sex show to put your back out … ahead of Valentine’s Day, our critics pick works that sum up love in our turbulent times
Tom Adams obituary
Artist who designed much admired symbolist covers for Agatha Christie novels
Mary Beard sits for naked portrait in new BBC programme
The academic’s latest TV show investigates the line between art and pornography
Message from the Skies review – Edinburgh’s heritage illuminated
Charlotte Runcie and Irvine Welsh are among the writers exploring Scotland’s maritime history in these evocative installations
Alasdair Gray obituary
Artist in words and pictures whose novel Lanark sparked a creative flowering in his native Scotland
Alasdair Gray, influential Scottish writer and artist, dies aged 85
The writer, artist and passionate Scottish nationalist was hailed as a ‘renaissance man’ for novels including Lanark and Poor Things
‘We were lawless!’ Banksy’s photographer reveals their scams and scrapes
Steve Lazarides was the art renegade’s strategist, photographer and minder. As his shots are published, he recalls the politics, parties and soaring price tags of ‘Matey Boy’
The Guardian view on arts prizes: a 20th-century phenomenon?
Editorial: This year’s Booker and Turner prizes tell us artists and even judges are repudiating the winner-takes-all award. It may be time to find new ways to celebrate the arts
On my radar: Shoshana Zuboff’s cultural highlights
The author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism on a great Paris deli, DJ Shadow, and a Broadway show that changed her
All deserve prizes? That’s no truer in art (including the Booker and Turner prizes) than in life
If we salute everyone, then we risk rewarding no one, writes a judge for next year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction
Roger Cardinal obituary
Writer and academic best known for his 1972 book Outsider Art
Lady Macbeth hand sanitiser? It’s the culture Christmas gift guide 2019!
Putin flip-flops, a Darth Vader plant pot, Fleabag’s hot priest meltdown, No Man Is an Island oven gloves … get your Christmas in gear with our guide to the hottest, artsiest presents around
French New Wave film posters: ‘They broke the rules’
The 50s and 60s saw a burst of intense innovation in French cinema, a spirit reflected in the bold film poster designs of the time
Self-Portrait by Celia Paul review – life with and without Lucian Freud
The artist Celia Paul, increasingly frustrated by frequent mentions of her turbulent relationship in books and articles, decided to tell her own revealing story