‘The people made me a star’: 100 years of Marilyn Monroe – in pictures
Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait review – the radiant, uncontainable star she always wanted to be
May 2026
From bikinis to cat bowls: how museum gift stores became the place to shop
The hill I will die on
The hill I will die on: Let me tell you the one big problem with art galleries. There’s too much art
Isabel Brooks
‘We can all coexist’: artist Es Devlin uses selfies to unite UK in portrait of a nation
Mark Gerson obituary
April 2026
‘The original triple threat’: two exhibitions celebrate Marilyn Monroe as creative pioneer
Other lives
Clare Gittings obituary
March 2026
Catherine Opie: To Be Seen review – a queer carousel of tattoos, fake moustaches and toddlers in tutus
‘I’m dying for the day heterosexuals have to come out’: Catherine Opie and her astonishing shots of queer America
February 2026
A great artist on paper: why Lucian Freud’s magical drawings are the key to his major works
Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting review – no, I don’t want to come up and see these etchings
January 2026
Colin Ford obituary
Historian, broadcaster and museum director who was the founding head of the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford
November 2025
The Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait prize – tenderness, traditions and a table of hair
Image of burn survivor wins Taylor Wessing photo portrait prize
October 2025
‘It’s a bit clandestine, a bit punk’: the guerrilla scheme letting skint artists mass-share gallery membership cards
Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World review – a narrow view of beauty from a borderline stalker
Audrey Hepburn to Salvador Dalí: Cecil Beaton’s bright young things – in pictures
Tate Britain’s Lee Miller exhibition is hardly ‘overdue’
August 2025
Republic of Parenthood
I thought I didn’t care about Renaissance art. Then life happened to me – and I saw its power
Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
There’s a reason these works have influenced great contemporary artists such as Jenny Saville. It just took me a while to truly see it, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
