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This survey of the practice’s work, full of strange objects and AR tricks, seeks to challenge Herzog’s own view that ‘architecture exhibitions are so boring’ – but doesn’t always succeed

This is an unusual exhibition about the working method of the designers of Tate Modern and the Laban Centre

South Tyneside residents are encouraged to make the most of a chance to see 1826 masterpiece The Cornfield

Every year since 1769, the Royal Academy has hosted a Summer Exhibition, a “cave-of-wonders-cum-candy-shop-cum-car-boot-sale of works by known academicians and keen members of the public”, said Laura Freeman in The Times. And, as the saying goes, “it is what it is”. This latest iteration, stewarded by watercolourist David Remfry, features…

Artist David Remfry is co-ordinator of the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition this year. Here’s why he’s called Kensington home for 40 years and counting

Television entertainer whose long and versatile career was followed by imprisonment for indecent assault

In this episode of Art After Dark, Nancy Durrant is joined by visual artist and Royal Academician Rana Begum. Together they admire the contemporary (and quirky) interiors at The Den in St Martin's Lane Hotel, try exquisitely crafted shoes at Manolo Blahniks, then head off to the Royal Academy where…

Conjured out of found objects, plant juice, even dirt, the work of 34 Black artists from the American south is jubilant, defiant, awkward, profound – and innately free

This moving show considers the wealth of inventive and influential work by African American artists from communities that remained in southern states after the civil war