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I feel bad for the artists whose work has been crowbarred into a wonky framework that makes them look as confused as the curators ...

'Nowadays Jairzinho works with kids in the favelas of Rio where the unwritten rule is that you have to be out by 5pm. I asked for 10 more minutes and when I turned round, a guy had pulled a gun on my crew'

Committed to Bethlem hospital after killing his father in a psychotic episode, Dadd inspired Angela Carter and Queen. Now a new show is exploring his paintings with a more nuanced take on his mental illness ...

In a new book, Isaac Butler goes back to the 1980s to trace how battles started against the arts, from Piss Christ to Mapplethorpe, and looks at what we can learn for today ...

Robin Bernstein's debut book Mapalakata takes us to the edge of the South African frontier to tell a story inspired by folk tales and historical artefacts ...

Their scandalous work was once banned. Now it's in museums. The photographer talks about a lifetime defying conformity - and their 'very active' sex life ...

Sixty years after its first staging, performance artist MPA is restaging the provocative piece in Los Angeles ...

Her fabric designs jazzed up the London Underground and though Queen Elizabeth II rejected her idea for a stamp, her work made a permanent cultural imprint, as a new exhibition reveals ...

From scientific tricks to stop turtle traffickers to stranded seals and displaced workers, these images all scooped prizes at this year's Earth Photo awards ...

Other lives: Pioneering textile artist who eschewed the distinctions between arts and crafts ...