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The Photographers’ Gallery, London W1 Sally Mann is perhaps best known for the controversy that attended her series Immediate Family when it was first exhibited in America in the early 90s. It featured black and white images of her three children, often naked or partially naked, as they played and posed in the woods, lakes [...]

London SE5; London SE15 I’m told, by people who don’t suffer from the radical unmusicality which is my personal affliction, that in music pauses are as important as the notes. Something similar is true of architecture. The bits that are not there matter as much as those that are, as if buildings are only completed [...]

Infrared and electron microscopes help determine a genuine Raphael, as new exhibition shows On a lower floor of the National Gallery, at the heart of the museum’s magnificent Italian collection, there is a small picture of a mother who is handing carnations to the baby on her lap. The colours of the painting, although more [...]

Nothing is more exciting to a biographer than the ‘discovery’ of a ‘missing’ portrait of their subject. But all too often, in their eagerness for new material, even scholars can be duped. Fortunately, scientific methods are making it easier to spot the fakes, as the National Gallery’s new exhibition proves I remember as an undergraduate [...]

From the history of men’s magazines to the Loch Ness monster, Gerard Byrne’s playful video installations mark him out as one of the most erudite and ambitious young artists today, argues Brian Dillon In July and August 1963, Playboy magazine published “1984 and Beyond”: a two-part round-table discussion concerning the future, involving 12 science-fiction writers. [...]

It may not have Venice quaking just yet, but this two-week festival on the Kent coast is shoring up a rich tableau of new art Like most coastal towns in Britain, there is a faint waft of deep-fried fish that dances on your nostrils as you walk around it. You can also buy a boogie [...]

Funding for frontline arts organisations reduced by just 0.5% as Arts Council England stumps up £9m from its reserves Arts Council England today announced a 0.5% funding cut for each of the 808 frontline arts organisations to which it regularly gives money – far smaller than had been feared. Over the last four weeks, staff [...]

Leonora Carrington escaped England to run off with Max Ernst and hang out with Picasso in 1930s Paris. What happened next? Joanna Moorhead Lindsay Poulton Michael Tait Read the original post on Guardian Arts & Architecture

Artist’s impressions of the planned UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation (UKCMRI) behind St Pancras in London Read the original post on Guardian Arts & Architecture

Ernesto Neto, London When it comes to whopping great art spectacles and interactive fun, the Hayward summer shows seem to have it licked. Past exhibitions have included a boating lake on the roof and giant, inhabitable bubbles. This year’s looks no exception with Brazilian installation artist Ernesto Neto taking over the upper galleries and outdoor [...]