The Stoke City manager, Tony Pulis, has been given the honour of carrying the Olympic torch. The 54-year-old will carry the flame as it passes through Stoke-on-Trent on Thursday. He is the only top-flight football manager to be given this chance.
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'Art...? Sorry, but I just can't see it' - Hayward Gallery to show exhibition of invisible work
Friday 18 May 2012
Hayward Gallery to show 'invisible' works by Yoko Ono, Andy Warhol and Yves Klein.
Observations: New show was five years waiting in the wings
Saturday 12 May 2012
The artist Keith Holmes paints actors, directors – even a show's technical crew – during rehearsals and backstage in the West End.
Luke Blackall: I'm all for pies, pop-ups and "squatter" restaurants
Saturday 12 May 2012
Man About Town: M. Manze's has the type of retro look that owners today spend millions trying to achieve
Early sketch by Andy Warhol goes on display
Thursday 10 May 2012
A recently-discovered sketch by Andy Warhol is to go on public display for the first time.
Tate will give big shows to Lowry and Lichtenstein
Thursday 10 May 2012
The Tate Modern is to stage the first major exhibition devoted to Roy Lichtenstein next year.
Tate gives a big show to Roy Lichtenstein
Thursday 10 May 2012
The Tate Modern will next year stage the first major UK exhibition devoted to Roy Lichtenstein in 20 years, its most comprehensive retrospective of the celebrated pop artist. The exhibition, which opens next spring, will bring together 125 of the artist's definitive paintings and sculptures.
Picture preview: Gideon Mendel – Drowning World
Thursday 03 May 2012
In an attempt to search for ways to show the world the effects of climate change through a Drowning World, Gideon Mendel's only other camera on his journey was, alongside the lives affected, paralysed by flood waters.
In pictures: Google Photography Prize Finalists
Tuesday 17 April 2012
The ten finalists of the Google Photography Prize, chosen from among 20,000 entries by students from 146 countries, were announced this week.
All the world's a stage: Introducing the biggest Shakespeare festival ever
Friday 13 April 2012
The World Shakespeare Festival is the centrepiece of the Cultural Olympiad, featuring 70 productions from across the world. Festival boss Deborah Shaw tells Arifa Akbar how it will cast the playwright in a whole new light.
A YBA who's still causing a big sensation
Monday 09 April 2012
The Whitechapel Gallery in east London is holding the first major retrospective of Gillian Wearing. Adrian Hamilton is moved by her deeply affecting films and photographs
Damien Hirst: The maestro of the macabre
Tuesday 03 April 2012
From sliced-up cows to dead sharks, Damien Hirst is the master of statement, but his retrospective at the Tate shows how little of himself he reveals
The shock of the old: When did we become so culturally conservative?
Friday 16 March 2012
We are taking refuge in the past, whether it's 'Call the Midwife' and 'Downton' on TV, Coward and Rattigan at the theatre, or neo-Romantics in the galleries. Where's the sensation, asks Philip Hoare?
Heads up: Damien Hirst
Sunday 11 March 2012
Still a Sensation? A chance to reassess Hirst's 'greatest hits'
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