Met exhibition review: show-stopping peacockery and introspective origins
New York unveils most dramatic changes to Central Park in years – in pictures
The $160m makeover to the park’s north side is part of a long-term project to address years of neglect
We’re having sex inside Moby Dick! The wild architectural world of Japan’s love hotels
From cruise ships to UFOs, from King Kong to a giant whale, half the sex in Japan may take place in its dazzlingly imaginative love hotels. But have some become just too seedy? Our writer checks in
‘The beauty of this angle is the distortion’: Sanket Khuntale’s best phone photo
From acid house to ancient rites: Jeremy Deller’s enormous, collaborative, unsellable art – podcast
The landscape artist who makes her paint from pearls, crystals and volcanic dust
Arts agency terminates dozens of grants after Trump proposes eliminating NEA
Survival and stoicism: stories of women born before the second world war
Christian Doyle’s series Quietly Getting On focuses on women in their late 80s and 90s, their memories of a wartime childhood and how they live now
The week around the world in 20 pictures
The funeral of Pope Francis, the blackout in Spain and Portugal, May Day rallies and Salah’s selfie: the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists
Down with expensive trophies at art fairs: it’s time to reclaim a more radical vision of creativity
‘Abnormal art is the only good art’: how Flávio de Carvalho sparked a Brazilian revolution
He donned a skirt to shock his conservative countrymen – and got bundled into a police station for his own protection. As his work appears in the RA’s Brasil! Brasil! show, we celebrate a luminary of modernism
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