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Work has always been central to the novelist’s existence. So what happened when she found herself caring for her elderly mother and two children – and suddenly unable to write?

Work that made its creator a superstar then mysteriously disappeared is mesmerising art lovers once more

Sixties art stars reconsidered, 70 years of working-class British life on camera and a multisensory meditation on Indonesian art – all in your weekly dispatch

Brazil produces incredible artists, too few of whom appear in this deluded show, which sadly fails to live up to its own hyperbolic guff

When we look at pictures of conflict, violence and collective trauma we might expect to see only the horrors of maimed bodies and the crying souls of the victims. But in the photographs of one of Italy’s most cherished photographers, Letizia Battaglia, you do not see glamorised shots of the…

The Louvre, the world's most visted museum, is suffering structural damage that threatens its future as a global cultural treasure, according to a confidential memo revealed by French newspaper Le Parisien, which cited leaks, overcrowding and inadequate facilities.

Axel Rudakubana, 18, killed Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, in the stabbing.

DCI Jason Pye, who led the investigation, said no training course could have prepared his officers for the horror of what they saw.

Zimbabwean art historian Barnabas Ticha Muvhuti travelled by road to five southern African countries – Botswana, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Namibia, Mozambique and Zambia – in pursuit of hidden stories. His mission was to visit artists in their studios to learn about the environments in which they work and…