Hyères International Fashion and Photography Festival 2014: The winners

Kenta Matsushige and Lorenzo Vitturi, the big winners of Hyères International Fashion and Photography Festival 2014. The 29th Hyères International Fashion and Photography Festival, a huge fashion and art photography event which has taken place annually at the end of April since 1985, took place from April 25-28 in the small French picturesque coastal town … Read more

Mario Testino returns home to focus on the beauty of Peru

The man made famous for his portraits of supermodels discusses why he has been drawn back to his hometown Lima

Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs. Inspiring, uplifting giant of modern art at Tate Modern

Landmark show explores the final chapter in Matisse’s career as he began ‘carving into colour’ and his series of spectacular cut-outs was born. A draughtsman, printmaker, sculptor and painter, Henri Matisse‘s unparalleled cut-outs are among the most significant of any artist’s late works. In a career spanning over half a century, Matisse made a large … Read more

Joséphine’s letters to trusted Napoleon general to go on sale in Paris

Expert describes four unpublished letters to chief of staff Alexandre Berthier as ‘wonderful, intimate and revealing’

Alexander McQueen’s Savage Beauty show to come to London

Fashion designer’s retrospective, the eighth most visited exhibition in Metropolitan Museum’s 142-year history, to be at V&A in 2015

Arkaeology: the real meaning of the Noah story

The film Noah is outraging evangelicals. But with its hot rain, incest and castration, the biblical story is far wilder, finds Jenny Diski

• Noah: first look review