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From the Sex Pistols to the Clash, how poster design helped spread the rebellious reputation of punk Sean O’Hagan Read the original post on Guardian Arts & Architecture

Whether showing us what water droplets look like when hurled from a bucket, or revealing the slow, destructive hand of nature, Eadweard Muybridge almost magically made time visible in space, as a new show at Tate Britain will reveal David Hockney once complained that photography was a paltry art because its angle on the world is [...]

Former Virgin partner gives away works by Frank Auerbach, Anthony Caro and Lucian Freud to help struggling artists in Africa Robert Devereux, a former partner in the Virgin empire and Richard Branson’s brother-in-law, is to sell a large part of his collection of British postwar art and use the expected £4m proceeds to set up [...]

V&A Museum of Childhood, London Backstage at the V&A Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green, east London, curator Esther Lutman is telling me that as a child she wasn’t much of a doll person. “I was a total tomboy,” she says. Strange, then, that among her current duties is the cataloguing of the museum’s 8,000-strong [...]

Zahim Jehad is doing his bit to get rid of weapons in Iraq. So why is he in trouble with the authorities? On a blistering day last month, Zahim Jehad was fossicking around a scrap yard in Basra amid hundreds of live artillery shells. After photographing rusting rounds he took the pictures to Iraq’s environment [...]

While the Sex Pistols and the Clash wreaked havoc on Britain’s pop scene, their disciples were busy with glue and scissors, channelling punk’s energy and DIY spirit into hundreds of posters, fanzines and sleeve art. Now an exhibition brings back these lost classics of the revolution In 1977, Toby Mott celebrated his 14th birthday in [...]

In a time before nylon and spandex, before even the idea of leisure, postwar Brits leave the air-raid shelters and learn to enjoy the daylight once more My first reaction to this photograph is to feel itchy. It’s not just the thought of gritty sand infiltrating every bodily crevice; it’s the sight of all the [...]

Your article (Warhol’s box of tricks, Weekend, 21 August) is mistaken when it says: “Delegating to a team of technicians who worked in a Manhattan studio he called the Factory, the artist created a conveyor belt that consciously blurred the line between individual authorship and mechanical reproduction.” During most of the 60s (when the original [...]

Anthony Davies participates in the pet photography monthly assignment Read the original post on Guardian Arts & Architecture

Anja Klemenšek participates in the pet photography monthly assignment Read the original post on Guardian Arts & Architecture