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Fashion and textile designer Dame Zandra Rhodes moved to Bermondsey in 1995. She tells Emma Magnus why she’s proud to live in the area

The historian and broadcaster on his favourite new sitcom, a moving art memoir, and why no one beats Anselm Kiefer

As a major exhibition celebrates founder Hans Rasmus Astrup, the museum has been promoting fresher Norwegian talent

The great German artist has tried again and again to read James Joyce’s twisted novel Finnegans Wake. His latest show takes inspiration from that book – and from a childhood making toys from the rubble of his family home

Director who won Palme d’Or for Paris, Texas and has two films at Cannes this year bemoans lack of new stories in mainstream film

The director’s serious examination of the German artist’s life and work has an architectural quality as it moves around some monumental art – and studios

Now in his 80s but as fiery as ever, the German provocateur talks about his pride at being a ‘degenerate’ artist, painting his wife nude – and revisits his assertion that: ‘Women don’t paint very well’

Santa Maria Della Salute, also known as Saint Mary of Health, stands majestically at Punta Della Dogana by the Grand Canal in the city of Venice. In 1631, Venice experienced an unusually devastating plague when nearly a third of the population was wiped out. As a votive offering, the Republic…

Developing a language to describe climate change needs both the sciences and the humanities

Get your cultural kicks while on holiday

The Venice Biennale is back and it’s as thrilling as ever, but what should you take the time to see?