Death and everything else
Art
Amen Dunes takeover: the references behind the album artwork
Spiralling essay
Jenny Holzer is recreating one of her most famous works at the Guggenheim
Fragile Beauty
Mapplethorpe, Sherman, McGinley: Elton John’s incredible photography collection is going on show
radical movement
An interview with Joseph Sissens, the Royal Ballet soloist captivating audiences
printed, hung, semi-dried, distorted
Acclaimed photographer Petros on their debut art exhibition
Wednesday Art Idol
August Sander: the pioneering German documentary photographer who captured the face of a nation
Sarah Lucas: interrogating gender norms through euphemism and innuendo
Claude Cahun: the French surrealist who inspired Cindy Sherman and Nan Goldin
Helen Levitt: a pioneer of street photography who captured the theatre of daily life in New York
Jenny Saville: the British painter challenging body norms with studies in human flesh
Joan Miró: the Spanish surrealist who inspired Dalí and Magritte
Gerhard Richter: the German master of abstraction reconciling memories of war
SUPERFLEX: the Danish public art collective re-drawing lines of civic power
Forensic Architecture: the architectural detective agency uncovering global human rights abuses
Gillian Wearing: the Turner Prize-winning artist peeling back layers of the human psyche
Portraits of Darian
Marc Vallée’s latest archive zine references Larry Clark and David Bowie
Fable
Magnum’s 10th Square Print Sale charts photography’s enduring ties to literature
I Will Follow The Ship
Matthew Attard’s Malta Pavillion at Venice Biennale proves data is art
Revelations
Judy Chicago’s first ever London retrospective is nearly here
Fulfill The Dream
Magdalena Wosinska on photographing the misfits and icons of California’s skate scene
HERO FRAMED
Jacob Ogden’s photography is rich with California’s honeyed hues
Top Stories
What to see at Printed Matter’s NYC Art Books Fair this weekend
If you (see me, see me, see me)
Artist James Bantone takes us through his UGG Salone Del Mobile exhibition
Worth a go
A German gallery worker has been fired for hanging his own artwork
Walking handbag
Lanvin Lab’s second guest designer is Erwin Wurm
Their mouths were full of bumblebees
Soufiane Ababri on his personal and political exhibition at the Barbican
posh dishes
Saint Laurent Rive Droite is taking Gio Ponti’s archive to Salone di Mobile
A Sculptural Mastermind
Remembering the monumental work of Richard Serra
Ones to watch
See the shortlisted images from this year’s Palm* Photo Prize
Weekend Combo
Talk show with the devil, protest photography and sci-fi leather beasts