George Lucas’s LA museum brings new hope to art’s storytellers
The Star Wars director reinvigorated cinema with sheer storytelling panache – can he do the same for an art world obsessed with concept and abstraction?
The drifter: Joel Sternfeld on his sly glimpses of wild America – seen from the endless highway
When Joel Sternfeld had the chance to crisscross America with a camera, he got in his campervan and never stopped. The 72-year-old photographer talks about his beguilingly sinister take on Americana
John Berger 1926-2017: an appreciation
Kate Kellaway recalls a charmed meeting in Paris with the writer, critic and artist – who died last week at 90 – for what turned out to be his last major interview
Get ready, here I come: 20 talents set to take 2017 by storm
The singer who stunned Pharrell, the writer to rival Pynchon, the son of a stone carver making art out of his body … we choose 20 names to watch in stage, film, books, art, design, music and TV
I do not recognise the stereotype of John Berger as a dour Marxist – his work embodied hope
This seminal writer and critic’s way of seeing was a way of being; he was a storyteller of searing moral clarity
How to use John Berger’s ‘language of images’ on Trump, polar bears and Kim Kardashian
In the 70s, the late critic revolutionised our appreciation of the visual arts. How do his ideas translate to contemporary culture?
Adrian Searle on John Berger: ‘Art for him was never apart from being alive’
The Guardian art critic remembers his friend as a storyteller and natural performer whose ideas on art were always useful
A life in quotes: John Berger
The late prize-winning author and art critic was perceptive on, among other things, the male gaze and the subjectivity of art
John Berger obituary
Critic whose TV series Ways of Seeing posed questions about art and society, and a writer whose fiction reflected his life in rural France
John Berger, art critic and author, dies aged 90
Booker-prize-winning author of titles including Ways of Seeing, G and A Painter of our Time had been living in Paris
Ultra-rare Jane Austen £5 note found in Christmas card in Scottish Borders
Thought to be worth tens of thousands of pounds, second of only four notes with micro portrait of novelist is discovered
Beyoncé to Black Mirror; the culture that defines 2016
How better to make sense of this turbulent year than through the art and literature it has produced? Our critics choose the works that sum up the last 12 months
Out from the shadows: why cruising had a cultural moment in 2016
From an acclaimed novel to an immersive theater experience, the divisive sexual practice made a comeback in art amid heightened anxiety over sex and gender
Passport to eternity: photographing the forgotten elderly of Ukraine
Alexander Chekmenev was tasked with making new passport photos eastern Ukraine – and ended up with a powerfully humane portrait series. As the images are published 20 years later, he explains why old people deserve better care
Look closer at nativity paintings – and see visions of apocalypse
Christmas cards are full of cutesy depictions of nativity scenes, but Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli and Caravaggio remind us of the death in Jesus’s story