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Smoking was having a comeback – until the director’s death after an emphysema diagnosis complicated its allure

Forget runs, wickets and boundaries. Brazen billionaires just invested in the sport’s most bizarre art form: the idea of a team

Editorial: Cuts could jeopardise the quality of the experience at the charity’s castles and ruins

This thrilling, visually hypnotic exhibition beautifully captures the delightful energy of the painter’s work, even if it does treat her belief in the occult with too much reverence

The alleged victim sent a message to Zou which said ‘think about what you have done’, the court heard.

Ever heard of Emilia Lanier? She rewrote the crucifixion from a female point of view – in 1611! Her lack of recognition is exactly what Indian artist Ayesha Singh seeks to highlight today with her eye-popping, perspective-shifting art

On holiday in the American south, John Ingall discovered that one of the local crops was being turned into remarkable works of art. So he went home, grew his own gourds and set about transforming them – and himself

The American photographer Peter Hujar, who died of Aids complications in 1987, chronicles New York’s 70s and 80s gay scene – and much else besides – in this haunting retrospective

In Ghana, dozens of artists have made their mark creating hand-painted movie posters that blend exaggerated horror with slapstick comedy. This unique art form began in the 1980s during Ghana's mobile cinema boom, giving artists freedom to reimagine blockbuster films in their own style.

Harking back to a wartime RA show, this mishmash of 20th-century Brazilian art, much of it in thrall to European modernism, ends exactly where it should begin…

A new show focusing on the artist’s fascination with string includes works unseen beyond private collections