Insomnia: Sleepless at the Serpentine
<p>Marcel Proust wrote at night, during periods of chronic sleeplessness. So did Emily Bronte and Walt Whitman. Vladimir Nabokov, who believed that insomnia was a positive influence on his work, once said: "Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals."</p>
Bought at a garage sale for $45, the photographs worth more than $200m
<p>Rick Norsigian, a Californian antique buff, knew exactly what he was looking for when he went rooting through a Fresno garage in 2000. He was looking for a vintage barber's chair, to add to his eclectic collection of old telephone switchboards, petrol pumps and aeroplane propellers. But when the chair turned out to be a dud, he chanced upon something that changed his life: two boxes of antique glass negatives which, a Beverly Hills art appraiser declared yesterday, were the work of Ansel Adams, the father of American photography.</p>
Vatican unveils 'new Caravaggio' – but art experts say it's an impostor
<p>Art officials yesterday unveiled the painting at the centre of the latest Caravaggio mystery, after the Vatican newspaper first suggested – and then denied – that the canvas was the work of the Italian master.</p>
British-themed castles made of sand
<p> This year's Sand Sculpture Festival at Weston-super-Mare in Somerset celebrated all things British. </p>
Arts Quangos: A threat to our cultural life
<p>If you abolished all quangos, the arts in Britain would pretty much cease to exist in their current form. Because governments since 1945 have conformed to the "arms length principle" by which it is deemed improper for ministers to take direct control of culture, much of the funding and basic administration of the arts has been carried out by unelected quangos.</p>
Impressionists: Bringing gardens to the foreground
<p> Gardens are an enduring motif in artwork, usually as a picturesque setting for a picnic scene, tea on the lawn or a child picking flowers. But for the Impressionists in Paris in the 19th Century, a movement which coincided with an explosion in enthusiasm for domestic horticulture, gardens became a subject in their own right and not simply a convenient backdrop. </p>
Don’t put a price on our national treasures
<p>Two important paintings, once on display at the Royal Cornwall Museum, have been quietly auctioned at Christies in London.</p>
On the agenda: Fitzrovia Radio Hour; Akala; Ane Lan's Dream Chamber; Oakley; Gelupo; Garden Party to Make a Difference

Surreal Friends, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
<p>Over-interpret the work of Leonora Carrington, and the woman who could reasonably be called the last of the Surrealists will turn upon you.</p>
Sargent and the Sea, Royal Academy, London
<p>It may be that, like me, you think of John Singer Sargent as an American society portraitist passing himself off as European.</p>
X-ray reveals Da Vinci's light touch on Mona Lisa
<p>French scientists have shone new light on the painting technique that allowed Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci to give the Mona Lisa such an extraordinary delicate charm.</p>
The lion died, but Iranian circus still delights Iraqis
<p>The hapless lion and snake both died in an Iraqi heatwave, but for the jugglers, clowns, fire-eater and other circus performers, the show in ancient Babylon had to go on.</p>
Antony Gormley's world tour continues: this stop, the Alps
<p> hHgh on a hill was a lonely Gormley, layee odl, layee odl, lay-ee-o... As Maria might have trilled had she spotted the solitary, watchful figure, his feet planted firmly in grass and edelweiss, his gaze directed balefully out over the snowy peaks of the Alps. In fact, this Gormley is far from lonely. He's one of 100 identical figures, cropping up across the mountains of Vorarlberg in west Austria, like so many cast-iron von Trapps. </p>
Vampires get their teeth into US public
<p>She loves the taste of blood, hates the sun, and, if you ask, will tell you she died in a train accident back in 1892: meet Seregon O'Dalley, a would-be vampire living in New York.</p>
The Diary: Antony Gormley; Rambert Dance Company; Coronation Street; Swan Lake; Carnival of Monsters

Cornelia Parker, Baltic, Gateshead
<p>So many things seem airily suspended as you plunge down the steep, twisty streets to the banks of the River Tyne. The Tyne Bridge hangs so high in the air, almost shaving off the rooftops; seagulls wheel above your head, ear-gratingly raucous as a knife blade scraped against a sink. And, over at the old Baltic flour mill on the Gateshead side of the river, the centrepiece of Cornelia Parker's mini-retrospective consists of objects in suspension too. This is not unusual for Parker though. She has often suspended objects in the air. It is almost a trademark sculptural gesture on her part, to draw our attention to the perpetual lightness of things; to transform the nature of what she is inviting us to examine by robbing things of their groundedness, their solidity, their familiar contexts.</p>
The greatest Da Vinci show ever seen
<p>An exhibition offering as few as five paintings by one of history's great artists might struggle to justify a billing as a fine art "blockbuster". But when the works are by Leonardo da Vinci, whose surviving portfolio extends to just 15 canvases, then normal rules no longer apply.</p>
Great Works: Lordship Lane Station, Dulwich (1871), Camille Pissarro
<p>Camille Pissarro's modestly named painting Lordship Lane Station, Dulwich occupies a corner site in one of the grandiose rooms at the Courtauld Gallery in London, which used to house the Royal Academy until that institution moved into Burlington House on Piccadilly in the 19th century. On display in this room and the adjacent gallery are some of the greatest works of Impressionism by Cézanne, Renoir, Gauguin, Manet, Toulouse-Lautrec and others. Pissarro's painting is also modest in title – it's more of a quick notation than a title – modest in size, and modest in subject matter. It seems aptly sited in this corner. It doesn't want, we feel, to make much of a play of being there.</p>
Weekly arts agenda: Edinburgh Art Festival, Manilart10
<p>During the Week of July 26, Edinburgh, Scotland will welcome visitors from across the world for the city's annual arts festival. There will be more than 100 exhibitions displaying works from established artists and provocative newcomers alike. In the Philippines, contemporary Asian and Filipino art will be on show at Manilart10.</p>
Harold Chapman: The man who never missed a Beat
<p>Two men in their twenties walk through rainy Paris in 1956. They settle, back-to-back, on a bench in the sixth arrondissement, in a square once regularly frequented by Jean-Paul Sartre. Meanwhile, a bespectacled, bearded man instinctively reaches for a Pentax camera and silently fumbles with its buttons. </p>
Paula Rego: Oratorio, Marlborough Fine Art, London
<p>Paula Rego makes many of the paintings in this show from a mixture of pastel, conté crayon and charcoal, one medium enhancing the effect of the other. The outcome is a series of new works that look like a sequence of bold, vivid friezes on the nursery wall h interlocking themes snatched from the dark, timeless depths of folk tale – flat, glowing panels of rich, contrasting colours, both restrained, and given strong emotional definition, by black outlining. These are narrative paintings, and the stories they tell are gruesome and chilling in the extreme, but because of the way in which they present themselves – the rough and tumble of each of these crowded scenes, animals, dolls, lumpish adults, bustling, boisterous children, masked ghouls and proto-children all crowded together – that fact is not immediately evident. We are lulled into a kind of premature delight by the way they are painted. Yet we should not be delighting in them – except, of course, for the reason of their painterliness. </p>
The battle of Trafalgar Square: six artists vie for fourth plinth spot
<p>Nelson still has another 18 months to treasure looking down at the bottled replica of his flagship HMS Victory from atop his column. But already the battle has begun among the next armada of contenders vying to catch the admiral's eye.</p>
Weekly art websites: welcome to the future
<p>This week's selection of websites takes you on a journey from the past into the future, displaying modern worlds and future inventions through the eyes of artists.</p>
Families 'miss out on £1.5 billion child tax credits'
<p> Families will collectively miss out on £1.5 billion this year through failing to claim child tax credits they are entitled to, research indicated today. </p>
Murillo painting barred from export
<p> A £3 million painting of The Virgin and Child by the Spanish Old Master Murillo has been temporarily barred from export while "last chance" efforts are made to keep it in the UK. </p>
Artists shortlisted for Fourth Plinth spot
<p> Artists hailing from England, Scotland, the United States, Cuba and Germany will battle it out to have their ideas selected as the next work to stand on Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth. </p>
400 years after his death, Caravaggio work is found
<p>Art experts in Rome are analysing what they believe is a previously unknown painting by the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio. </p>
On the agenda: Press Photographer's Year exhibition; Don’t Stop Believing; IF: Milton Keynes International Festival; Granta magazine; Comme des Garçons

Alice Neel: Painted Truths, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
<p>Three things about Alice Neel's portrait of Andy Warhol strike you straight away: the unpleasantness of its subject's flesh (saggy, fish-like, opalescent); the fact that Warhol is wearing a surgical corset over massive abdominal scars; and, last but perhaps most arresting, that his eyes are closed.</p>
Bucharest exhibition debunks Dracula myth
<p>An exhibition opened Friday in Bucharest that aims to debunk the myths surrounding Walachian prince Vlad Tepes (the Empaler), who inspired Bram Stoker's bloodsucking character Dracula.</p>
Kurt Cobain’s only daughter launches art exhibition
<p> She was only two years old when her father, the lead singer of iconic grunge band Nirvana, committed suicide aged 27. </p>
The Diary: Shazia Mirza; Jo Wood; Serpentine Gallery; Vnull Women's Institute; Festival Brazil

Great works: Annunciation (1438-45), Fra Angelico
<p>Some great paintings are inexhaustible wells, forever self-replenishing. Such a one is Fra Angelico's frescoed representation of the Annunciation at the monastery of San Marco in the north of Florence. It is a painting of that key moment in the Christian story when the angel Gabriel appears to Mary, and announces that she will give birth to a son by miraculous means. The story, though central to the Christian story, appears in only one of the Gospels, St Luke's. The fresco can still be seen on the first floor of the monastery, at the top of the staircase, where Fra Angelico painted it. It is the first image that you see as you ascend the stairs to the dormitory level, and its position is perfectly calculated to make an overwhelming emotional impact upon the visitor. Other works by Fra Angelico and his followers, one small image in each, can be seen in the tiny monk's cells on the same floor. </p>
We cannot offset arts cuts, say philanthropists
<p>Some of Britain's most prominent philanthropists who have donated hundreds of millions of pounds to the creative industries are warning that private giving will not bridge the gap left by imminent cuts to state funding for the arts.</p>
Death becomes her: Meet Polly Morgan, Britart's hottest property
<p>Polly Morgan is poised over one of two huge freezers which greet visitors in the hallway to her east-London studio. Rolling back the sleeve of her black silk shirt (Marc Jacobs, eBay, £20), she delves an arm deep into the chest, past a packet of Tesco tortilla wraps, and pulls out a collection of large zip-lock bags: "These are the crow's heads," she states, matter of fact, thrusting several feathered body parts bound in plastic into my hands for closer inspection. "And these are their wings," she reaches in further and retrieves another load. The 30-year-old taxidermist is talking me through some of the birds that feature in her forthcoming exhibition Psychopomps, which opens at London's Haunch of Venison gallery next week. </p>
Hong Kong's Ani-Com and Games predicts records crowds for 2010 event
<p>A new competition aimed at young designers and the presence of an international gaming giant are being touted as the main draw cards for this year's Ani-Com and Games fair, with organizers predicting that more than 700,000 people will attend the five-day event.</p>
Weekly arts agenda: Setouchi International Art Festival, Ann Arbor Street Fair
<p>During the week of July 19 visitors to the seven islands of the Seto Inland Sea in Japan will be surrounded by contemporary art installations and exhibitions during the Setouchi International Art Festival. In the USA, more than half a million people will flock to Ann Arbor to see the work of local artists during the Ann Arbor Street Art Fair.</p>
The Art of Building

While you were sleeping: Tapping into the power of dreams
<p>In the past few weeks, I've been propositioned by Ed Balls, lectured to by Danny Alexander and sneered at by Alastair Campbell. I've also travelled round New York with a colleague, just missed being blown up by a bomb, and swum in a river with Martin Amis. He didn't look great, and neither did I, but we weren't thinking about each other, we were thinking about the dinosaur that turned out to be a cactus. When you broke off a branch, and looked inside you found this milky liquid. We drank it and it was delicious.</p>
Virtual tours bring China’s ancient relics alive
<p>For tourists heading to the Chinese capital of Beijing, it is a must-see attraction. But the Palace Museum - set inside the sprawling surrounds of Beijing's Forbidden City - is so vast that many visitors simply scout around sights such as the Emperor's Bedroom and then head off to another destination.</p>
Alice Neel: Painted Truths, Whitechapel Gallery, London
<p>The American painter Alice Neel, who died in 1984, described herself as a collector of souls, and there's no doubt that when she painted a portrait, she was painting far more than a body and face. Something, which seems to come from the sitters, quivers shakily on her canvases – painted eyes and hands often seem to wobble unsteadily. Groups of sitters, families and couples, don't seem to be connected to one another. </p>
V&A hopes to leave the past behind as it plans extension
<p>The last time the Victoria and Albert Museum tried to build an extension, the design was likened to an exploding cardboard box and sparked an eight-year battle for approval and funding which ended in a resounding no.</p>
Arabia's ancient past on show at the Louvre
<p>For the first time, the ancient past of Saudi Arabia is at the heart of an exhibition at the Louvre museum in Paris, which is showing works that have never left their country before.</p>
Weekly art websites: webcomics and online cartoons
<p>This week's selection highlights the work and websites of animators and cartoon creators making it big on the internet.</p>
Eric Ravilious: Green and pleasant land
<p>It is an alphabet of things. It is like a childhood landscape, but with a very refined technique. It is one version of the English view, and at the very opposite end of Constable and Turner, with its stirring moods and thick lights. This earth and sky offer a very wide and clear sight, and each river, hill, wood has its shape. But there is also something mysterious in his art, something modernist too, and even a kind of wit. He is almost a great artist, and he's just about famous, and his curious name is memorable: Eric Ravilious. </p>
Fined: Russian art curators who likened Jesus to Lenin
<p>Two Russian art curators were sentenced to hefty fines yesterday for inciting religious hatred over a 2007 exhibition that included artworks comparing Jesus Christ to Mickey Mouse and Vladimir Lenin.</p>
Hannah Wilke: Elective Affinities, Alison Jacques Gallery, London
<p>There is a soft curving shape, like a shell or a hood, that you will see repeated over and over in the work of the late American artist Hannah Wilke.</p>
Aristocrats sell off their heirlooms to keep the wolves from the door
<p> The aristocratic owners of some of Britain's most famous country estates have sold off art treasures worth £100m since the start of the recession. Many are heirlooms and are being sold at auction – often to foreign bidders – to pay for the renovation and upkeep of country homes. Cuts in government spending have raised concerns that treasure with heritage value will increasing be sold abroad as museums and galleries are unable to afford them. All these artworks come from stately homes, most of which are open to the public. Around £80m worth of major works have been sold in this way, while additional, smaller works are being marketed discreetly, an investigation by <i>The Art Newspaper </i>claims. </p>
Harrier and Jaguar, Tate Britain, London
<p>There was, alas, no label that I could find for Fiona Banner's new Duveens Commission at Tate Britain, so I'm unable to tell you how its materials are described there.</p>
Warhol Wars: Legal battle over authenticity
<p>One of the most powerful figures in contemporary art and the auction house Christie's have been dragged into a multimillion-pound legal fight over the control of the lucrative market in works by Andy Warhol, one of the most popular, and expensive, artists of the 20th century.</p>
Art historians cast doubt over Earl Spencer's £9m Rubens
<p>Leading art historians have cast doubt over the authenticity of a £9m painting attributed to Rubens, which was sold by the family of Diana, Princess of Wales, last week. Portrait of a Commander Being Dressed for Battle was the star lot in a three-day sale of chattels from the Althorp estate held by Christie's, which netted £21m for Earl Spencer, the house's owner and brother of the late princess.</p>
Turner painting sells for auction record 29.7 million pounds
<p>A view over Rome painted by artist JMW Turner was sold for 29.7 million pounds in London, setting a new record at auction for the British master.</p>
Artfeelers tours to lift the lid on the East End
<p>Ever get the feeling there's a world of exciting art you're missing out on? Well, there probably is. But while art on the fringes can be the most fun, it can also be tricky to know where to start. Which is why Claire Flannery came up with Artfeelers, an organisation that runs art tours of the East End. East London has more galleries per capita than anywhere else in the world, and the aim is to lift the lid on the most cutting-edge artists, curators and spaces.</p>
The Diary: Serpentine Gallery Summer Party; Michael Winterbottom's The Killer Inside Me; Jojo Moyes; Billy Collins; La Divina

Great Works: The Risen Christ (c1532), Michelangelo
<p>Football itself may be a beautiful game, but there are no beautiful pictures of football. It's a mysterious problem. Surely these scenes of human anatomy and action should be a glory. Surely somebody's creative genius should be able to match the genius of the sport. But for some reason there seems to be a mistake, image-wise, about the whole subject. Is it the unfortunate stripes? Perhaps. Or is there something odd about strikers, headers and savers – these figures that have added balls – that makes the bodies undignified? Perhaps too. One way or another, no satisfactory artistic solution has ever arisen. </p>
BP Portrait Award 2010, National Portrait Gallery, London
<p>You could say – many have – that painted portraiture is under threat as never before. By the middle of the 19th century, photographic representation was beginning to rob painted portraits of their reason for being. Then, throughout the 20th century, the human figure was subjected to relentlessly inventive scrutiny by wave after wave of painters who wrenched the body and face awry to try to capture the real human hidden deep inside. </p>
Sculptor with a good eye for art
<p>Ever had the strange feeling that you're being watched? It's not exactly a hidden eye.</p>
Weekly arts agenda: Galway Arts Festival, Portugal Arte
<p>During the week of July 12 Ireland will become home to an international lineup of artists, musicians and actors for the Galway Arts Festival. In Portugal the streets will be transformed into public art spaces for the inaugural edition of Portugal Arte.</p>
Caravaggio's Friends & Foes, Whitfield Fine Art, London
<p>In the 400th anniversary year of Caravaggio's death, we have been presented with several ways to know the painter, or to know the man. Those lucky enough to visit Rome recently may have seen a huge exhibition of major works by the artist. Star archaeologists have claimed, within the last few months, to have found the artist's bones, and more, have speculated that they contain lead, attributing his death to his lead-based paints. The British art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon has just published his biography of the artist– a labour of 10 years' work – refuting this thesis. </p>
Goya's hill saved from developers
<p>Environmentalists battling to save a popular green ridge in old Madrid depicted in Francisco de Goya's painting <i>La Pradera de San Isidro</i> have won a reprieve from development. </p>
£100,000 appeal to save William Hoare portrait of freed slave
<p> A campaign has been launched to save the earliest known painting of a freed African slave from being taken out of the country. </p>
Sargent and the Sea, Royal Academy of Arts, London
<p>The sea is no longer a fashionable subject for young painters. Nor is the subject particularly saleable. When did you last see a seascape in a group show of work by young artists? When did you last see an easel on Eastbourne beach? </p>
Wool works: Knitting up a feast
<p> Food gets an exciting makeover in a new exhibition by textile artist Kate Jenkins. </p>
Can a garden be a work of art?

Secrets of Mummies unraveled in California
<p>From an ornate Egyptian sarcophagus to the striking preserved remains of a howler monkey wearing a feathered skirt, a new exhibition in Los Angeles is unraveling the mysteries of mummies.</p>
Weekly art websites: The art of Steampunk
<p>This week's selection of websites takes you on a "steampunk" tour around the web. Steampunk is a term used to describe a "fictional reality" where modern technology collides with late 1800's to 1900's Victorian design.</p>
Caravaggio remains go on display in Italy
<p>The bones of Renaissance master Caravaggio went on public display for the first time on Sunday in this Tuscan port after lying in an unmarked grave nearby for four centuries.</p>
Wolfgang Tillmans, Serpentine Gallery, London
<p>Looking at an exhibition by the German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans is a little like sitting down in the street outside a café in a city little known to you and watching the world go by.</p>
Exhibition gathers both heirs to marvel at Picasso and Klee
<p>An exhibition in Switzerland has brought together the genius of modern art contemporaries Pablo Picasso and Paul Klee with an added twist: the first meeting of their two heirs.</p>
Queen unveils 'Magna Carta' cornerstone for Canada museum
<p>Britain's Queen Elizabeth II hailed the special contribution to Canada's culture made by the country's native peoples, attending a performance of indigenous dance and visiting the site of a future museum for human rights.</p>
On the agenda: Tower Bridge; Dorset Seafood Festival; Keep Me Posted; The Railway Children; Robert Irwin's Camel; Carven

Close Examination: Fakes, Mistakes & Discoveries, National Gallery, London
<p> Connoisseurship is a handsome word, calling to mind the dry lips of Sir John Pope-Hennessy and back copies of Apollo. </p>
Sex, death and slaves: Welcome to Haiti's horror carnival
<p> Leafing through Leah Gordon's book of bewildering, disturbing and thrilling black-and-white photos, one stands out. Two boys stand before the camera, each wearing rough eyemasks, their naked upper bodies smeared with something grim-looking, large horns bound to their heads and rope in their hands. They look, to be frank, terrifying.</p>
French photo festival puts Jagger in spotlight
<p>Mick Jagger is the main attraction at the 41st annual Rencontres d'Arles photography festival in the south of France, with organisers hoping that he will put in a personal appearance.</p>
Art and life in China blur for photographer Mo Yi
<p>Mo Yi was born and raised in Tibet, the son of a man who had followed the Chinese Communist Party's call to bring the socialist revolution to the Himalayan region.</p>
Exhibit reveals intrigue behind painter Hopper's US realism
<p>A new exhibition in Switzerland of the works of iconic US painter Edward Hopper offers an unusual chance to discover the intrigue behind his vivid paintings.</p>
The Doors: Being strange on camera
<p> To compliment the cinema release of Tom DiCillo’s documentary about the The Doors ‘When You’re Strange,’ the Idea Generation Gallery is hosting an exhibition of previously unseen and lesser known photographs from the controversial band’s history. </p>
Cultural Life: Yinka Shonibare, artist
<p> <b>Books: </b>'Flash of the Spirit' by Robert Farris Thompson is a book I am reading now. It's about African and African-American art and philosophy. I often express ideas in my work related to current affairs and on a weekly basis I tend to read 'The Economist' and the weekend 'Financial Times'. For 'Crash Willy, a piece on show in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, I was influenced by the credit crunch and drew from both non-fiction resources as well as fictional tales, such as 'Death of a Salesman'. </p>
The Diary: Anton Edelmann; Kenwood House; Joana Vasconcelos; Neil Gaiman; Alexei Sayle

Great Works: The Death of Sardanapalus (1827), Eugène Delacroix
<p>Earthquakes feel like the end of the world. Everything loses their differences. Whatever stood, now falls. The ground opens up and turns over. The distinctions between what moves and what doesn't move are no longer there. Some pictures show things like that.</p>
Saatchi gives up his art – and his name – for the nation
<p>As an entrepreneurial ad-man turned art impresario, Charles Saatchi is famed for his ability to discover the next big thing.</p>
Ulster Museum awarded prize
<p>The Ulster Museum in Belfast has been awarded the Art Fund Prize. </p>
Francis Alÿs: A Story of Deception, Tate Modern, London
<p>You are walking down a long road between two fields. The road never seems to change, but you keep glimpsing something, close by, in the distance. Is there water on the road ahead? A town? The future flickers and shimmers, you are almost there, on the brink of something, then it vanishes into thin air: a mirage. This is the rather beautiful 16mm film, A Story of Deception (2003-6), filmed in Patagonia, that opens (and gives name to) Francis Alÿs's current survey show at Tate Modern, exploring the crossovers between poetics and politics. The never-reachable moment, a continual glimmer of hope, a pointless struggle – these are the motifs of this brilliant, yet slippery, exhibition. In other films here children build sandcastles to knock them down, the artist pushes a large block of ice around Mexico City until it melts to nothing, or dribbles a line of green paint from a leaky can along the "green line" – the 1948 armistice border between Israel and neighbouring countries. Everything teeters between being depressingly pointless and joyfully, wonderfully so. </p>
Charles Saatchi gives modern art collection to Britain
<p>British art collector Charles Saatchi, credited with discovering Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, will give more than 200 art works worth 25 million pounds to the nation, his museum said Thursday.</p>
Weekly arts agenda: Art Osaka, Serpentine Gallery Pavilion opening
<p>During the week of July 5, Art Osaka will give viewers a break from the cluttered group-show standard seen within many art fairs. The majority of exhibiting galleries will instead focus on solo shows. In London, the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion will open, becoming a staple venue for late night events and artist talks.</p>
Saatchi to donate art collection to nation
<p> Celebrated art collector Charles Saatchi is gifting more than 200 works and his Saatchi Gallery to the nation, he announced today. </p>
Press Photographer's Year 2010 - Winners Gallery
<p> The results of the Press Photographer's Year 2010 were announced last night. Now in its fifth year, it is in the only competition to showcase the best photography used exclusively by the UK media. </p>
1:1 Architects Build Small Spaces, V&A, London
<p>We define our lives by the way we regard and respond to the spaces we inhabit. This summer the Victoria & Albert Museum is showing – scattered willy-nilly – seven small, newly commissioned, purpose-built structures by architectural practices from across the world. </p>
Arifa Akbar: Fiona Banner's brilliant, brutal art
<p> Just as Tate Britain revealed Fiona Banner’s Duveen Galleries commission this week – to fill the vast neo-classical space at the front of the London gallery – many art critics and correspondents braced themselves for sensationalism. </p>
Jeanloup Sieff - Iconic photographs go under the hammer
<p> A collection of work by fashion photographer Jeanloup Sieff, including a photograph of Alfred Hitchcock posing as a zombie with model Ina Balke on the set of Psycho, is under the hammer at Christie's in Paris today. </p>
Nothing Is Forever, South London Gallery, London
<p>A first-class contemporary art gallery and communitarian institution in south London became a great and major space this week. </p>
A host of Polaroid exhibitions as new line of instant color film is announced
<p>Thirteen photographers have become the first to explore the possibilities of a newly-released line of color film for traditional Polaroid cameras. The experimental works will be featured during this year's Rencontres d'Arles Photography Festival in Arles, France.</p>