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Suspended sentences for duo who made tens of thousands by passing off fake prints of graffiti artist’s work as originals Two men who pleaded guilty to selling fake prints by the graffiti artist Banksy were condemned as “old-fashioned conmen” by a judge today, although they escaped jail with suspended sentences. Grant Champkins-Howard, 44, and Lee [...]

Close Examination reveals that curators are as besotted by the myth of undiscovered masterpieces as the rest of us Surely poor old Walter Sickert gets enough bad press as it is. He appears as a sinister accessory to serial murder in Alan Moore’s comic strip about Jack the Ripper, From Hell, and the crime writer [...]

Dinu Li, Derby Yesterday Is History, Tomorrow Is Mystery is a series of photographs in which scenes are flooded with a blood-red light. The Chinese, UK-based artist Dinu Li deals in dislocated perspectives, worlds in which personal reverie and political indoctrination collide. Kitsch elements of children’s jigsaws and faded postcards are set against intimations of [...]

Readers’ favourite photographs, songs and recipes Snapshot: Ranger in his wedding finery My dad has always liked dogs, making a funny clicking sound to get them to come up to him so he can fuss and pat them. But the dog in the picture with him is special – he was Dad’s first dog. He [...]

The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal, Playing Days by Benjamin Markovits and The General by Jonathan Fenby “The book is infinitely more than an exercise in precious antiquarianism,” wrote Brian Dillon in the Daily Telegraph of The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal, a book which “tells the story of [...]

Your best photographs on this week’s theme, from north Norfolk to deepest Texas Read the original post on Guardian Arts & Architecture

These buildings are an important part of our landscape – even if they are not used for worship If churchgoing is a reliable indicator of Christian belief, then England began losing its religious impulse when Victoria was still on the throne. Attendance at Anglican services began its decline in the 1890s. By 1968, only 3.5% [...]

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 [...]