From Skyspace to The Scallop: 10 of the best outdoor art works
Bronze lozenges, Cumbrian moss and a colossal female nude: as restrictions lift, here are the greatest alfresco spectacles
May 2020
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Folkestone turns gold and Edvard Munch's selfies – the week in art
A giant metal kookaburra with a sense of humour, Martin Creed’s video call to inaction and a graffiti take on lockdown – all in your weekly dispatch
March 2020
UK gallery curator calls for public art project in response to Covid-19
Ambitious national programme is needed to support artists and institutions, says Serpentine Galleries’ artistic director
December 2018
Martin Creed: Toast review – postcards from the hedge
The eclectic artist’s new show is a miscellany of personal anxieties and totems, from stressed sopranos to bronze-cast peanut butter
November 2018
Martin Creed: Toast review – plenty to chew on in show of surprises
From singers accompanied by dancing socks to filmed vignettes of people opening their mouths to reveal masticated food, Creed’s exhibition is absorbing, moving and funny
June 2018
Cast of characters: encounters with British sculptors – in pictures
Cornelia Parker, Elisabeth Frink, Damien Hirst and Grayson Perry are among the artists Anne-Katrin Purkiss captures in striking portraits
January 2018
The Guardian view on contemporary art in schools: a joyful idea reborn
Editorial: In the 1940s, School Prints were a visionary notion to bring affordable, adventurous artworks into classrooms. Reinvented for the 21st century, they still are today
August 2017
Edinburgh festival 2017: the shows we recommend
Plan your viewing with our list of essential shows, ordered by start time
Martin Creed's Words and Music review – an impish evening of artistic musing
The Turner prize-winner improvises with a mic and guitar in an endearing, exposing show full of ticklish humour
Trans tales and rogue cabarets: Edinburgh festival 2017 – in pictures
From Sara Pascoe’s new standup to a strange evening with Martin Creed, via acrobats, Samuel Beckett and a wild girl from Borneo, here are the sights so far
December 2016
The Guardian view on Brexit and the arts: a backlash against the modern
Jonathan Jones on art
Martin Creed's bleak anti-carol should be Christmas No 1
Jonathan Jones
September 2016
The Infinite Mix review – video-art medley dances madly with big ideas
The Hayward’s new offsite show is a weird, wonderful assortment of installations featuring ghostly opera stars, dancing plant-life and a bullet-riddled tour of Kendrick Lamar’s home town
May 2016
Martin Creed's Understanding: the new single – video
In his video for Understanding, multiple Martin Creeds fill the screen. The Turner prize-winning artist’s latest single is taken from his new album
Martin Creed: 'I keep hair. And I'm afraid of cheese'
In an exclusive preview of his new show, Turner winner Martin Creed gives us a guided tour round old cars, smashed chairs and plastic bags from under his fridge
Artist's neon sign calls for understanding in New York – and around the world
Martin Creed has planted a revolving neon sign on the East river in Brooklyn inspired by the state of the world – and it all started with a secret handshake
March 2016
No junk mail please: the man who popped YBA art in the postbox
Matthew Higgs’ visionary Imprint 93 was snail mail’s artistic swansong and helped to deliver a new generation of artists from Chris Ofili to Martin Creed
December 2015
Urban regenerators Assemble become first 'non-artists' to win Turner prize
Collective that uses art and design to tackle urban dereliction in Toxteth, Liverpool, becomes first non-artists to win
May 2015
Station to Station pulls out all the stops with lineup as it heads for Barbican
Frieze New York review – navigating the maze of art fair's eccentric fun
