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Art and design + Letters

June 2026

  • Interior of a room in the National Gallery in London.

    The secret to enjoying an art gallery? Less is more

    Letters: Readers respond to an article in which Isabel Brooks described feeling overwhelmed by the number of artworks on display

May 2026

  • Works include: Image: Francisco de Zurbaran, works from a 15-metre high, three-tier altarpiece, for the Charterhouse of Nuestra Senora de la Defension in Jerez de la Frontera, The Adoration of the Magi', (about 1638-9). Credit: Malcolm Park/Alamy Live News3EC65D2 The National Gallery, London, UK. 29th Apr, 2026. The first major UK exhibition of Spanish master Francisco de Zurbaran (1598-1664) brings together works from major collections across Europe and the USA, tracing Zurbaran's career from large religious commissions to paintings made for private devotion, running from 2 May-23 Aug 2026. Works include: Image: Francisco de Zurbaran, works from a 15-metre high, three-tier altarpiece, for the Charterhouse of Nuestra Senora de la Defension in Jerez de la Frontera, The Adoration of the Magi', (about 1638-9). Credit: Malcolm Park/Alamy Live News

    The glories of Francisco de Zurbarán’s paintings

    Letters: Paul McGilchrist, Jean Wilson and Chris Keil on the Spanish artist’s haunting images

April 2026

  • A public toilet in Tokyo, where interest in the facilities is surging after the release of Perfect Days, which has been nominated for an Oscar.

    Public toilets: more than a matter of convenience

  • Sun Inn, Market Street, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria. Picture by Paul Heyes, Monday October 24, 2016.H7XTCC Sun Inn, Market Street, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria. Picture by Paul Heyes, Monday October 24, 2016.

    Arts funding gap in the north must be closed

  • Dog and little child on a pebbled beach

    When archaeology was dominated by men

  • National Art Pass spring 2025 campaign with (left) Henri Matisse, The Snail (L’escargot), 1952-1953. and (right) Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck, Growing Memories, 2021

    Art for art’s sake, but for people’s health too

March 2026

  • An art installation by the British artist Banksy, seen on a wall outside the Yankee Stadium in New York.

    Unmasking artists like Banksy and Ferrante

    Letter: Tommaso Debenedetti says readers and journalists should be free to speculate and create stories about anonymous artists’ identities as long as their privacy is not violated

February 2026

  • Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor being driven away from the police station

    Phil Noble’s photograph of Andrew exposes the mundanity of monarchy

  • Samson and Delilah by Peter Paul Rubens, National Gallery, London.

    How to keep free entry to UK museums and galleries

  • Georges Seurat’s oil painting Bathers at Asnieres at The National Gallery, London.

    The remarkable man who made Art UK possible

  • Tracey Emin.

    Having a stoma bag isn’t usually so bad as it’s been for Tracey Emin

  • The Southbank Centre is striking, polarising and now protected

  • To revive manufacturing we must first change attitudes towards labour

January 2026

  • People looking in the window of an estate agent in South Kensington, London

    Brief letters
    Artists can’t buy into these fantasy houses

  • Historian and museum director Colin Ford

    Letter: Colin Ford obituary

December 2025

  • Rothko Seagram Murals at Tate St Ives 2024

    Tate’s greats are certainly not kept hidden from view

  • Switzerland Photography - Jul 2013Mandatory Credit: Photo by Walter Bieri/EPA/Shutterstock (8130819a) British Photojournalist Martin Parr Poses For Photographs During His Exhibition 'Souvenir' at the Museum of Design in Zurich Switzerland 11 July 2013 the Exhibition Runs Until 05 January 2014 Switzerland Schweiz Suisse Zurich Switzerland Photography - Jul 2013

    Letters: Martin Parr obituary

  • A staircase to the theatre area in the lower ground level of the building. The Barbican Centre, which is undergoing a refresh of the signage, entrances and walkways by Barbican Renewal. Photographed 3 December 2025

    The Barbican refurbishment should take heed of Leeds

  • Children admiring art at Turner and Constable: Rivals and Originals at Tate Britain, London.

    Turner’s mother’s frustration and a memorable brush with Bacon

November 2025

  • Timothy Spall as JMW Turner in the 2014 film Mr Turner, directed by Mike Leigh.

    Was JMW Turner’s mother really ‘mentally ill’?

    Letter: It seems likely the artist’s family wanted to get rid of a woman who was just difficult to get along with, writes Helen James
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