カテゴリー: Art and design
Vanua Levu is being overrun by invasive vines – and the increasing number of natural disasters, brought on by climate change, is only making things worseIn Vanua Levu, the second largest island of Fiji, every contour drips with green. The landscape is …
Many farmers in south-western Bangladesh use floating rafts made from invasive water hyacinths to grow vegetables during the monsoon season – when dry land is scarce – to ensure food security in the low-lying country, which has recently been experienci…
Photographer Gideon Mendel visited Sindh province in Pakistan after the worst floods in living memory this summer killed more than 1,500 people and left millions homeless.The portraits, part of his Drowning World project, are a powerful reminder of the…
Tianqiuping-style porcelain sells for nearly 4,000 times its estimated value after buyers are convinced it is a rare artefactAn “ordinary” Chinese vase put up for auction in France and valued at €2,000 (£1,745) has sold for almost €8m after a ferocious…
After a couple of years of subdued celebrations, the Mumbai crowds are back out in force bringing more and bigger idols – but with a greater awareness of their environmental impact Text and photographs by Catherine DavisonThe orange shirts of hundreds …
We should never take free speech for granted, especially if it concerns art, writes John FinlayI read with interest your editorial (The Guardian view on China’s censors: the sense of an (acceptable) ending, 24 August). In 2016, I was about to publish a…
In the sweltering summer of the Rohingya refugee camp at Cox’s Bazar, Ishrat Fori Imran photographed a young girl planting tiny trees in bottle topsNur Asma is 10 years old. She lives in the Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, with her fa…
Once considered too low-status for many, peddling wares on the street has made a comeback in Beijing as people who lost their jobs or closed down their businesses seek new ways to make a living and work around the country’s relentless anti-Covid polici…
It’s been a year since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan. The photojournalist Stefanie Glinski has been in the country since then, charting the rise of the Islamic emirate and the effect on the populationSitting on a thin mat, a plastic tarpaulin…
The withdrawal of allied troops from Afghanistan a year ago led to desperate scenes as refugees tried to escape the Taliban. One man tells his family’s story Continue reading…
The Afghan-Iranian artist narrowly escaped from Kabul to Paris last August, as the Taliban took over. She talks about the terror of that time, why she still longs for home, and her work photographing Afghan women in exile in FranceWhen the US governmen…
Where does a state’s power truly reside? Not in its military, says the celebrated writer, but in the Kafkaesque files it keeps on its citizens – and no one showed this more brilliantly than SinghI first met Dayanita Singh in India in 2011. Her house wa…
Ainsley Dawrent responds to an undiplomatic comment about the bucket fountain at Cuba Mall in WellingtonToby Fisher’s remark that the bucket fountain in Cuba Mall, Wellington, is the “crappiest fountain ever” is uncalled for and, even in jest, wrong (T…
Artwork’s appearance fuels fears family will use return to power to further stifle efforts to recover ill-gotten wealthThe glimpse of a possible Picasso in the home of Imelda Marcos seen during a visit by her son, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr, after …
Kim Dong-hyun spends his days documenting the city’s vibrant senior street style to provide a new perspective on ageingPots and pans, piles of shirts and shoes, jewellery-laden tables, and boxes brimming with bric-a-brac. In the tangle of streets near …