The most unmissable culture of 2016

Tarantino goes bounty-hunting, Botticelli takes you to hell, Bowie goes dark, and Jericho fills that Downton-shaped hole … in our bumper guide to the best 150 arts events to look forward to this year

Frank Gehry Major Retrospective at LACMA

One of the world’s most celebrated and innovative architects on view at LACMA: Frank Gehry. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents the United States premiere of Frank Gehry, a major retrospective examining the prolific body of work of one of the world’s most celebrated and innovative architects. Canadian-born, Los Angeles–based architect Frank … Read more

Museum of Tomorrow: a captivating invitation to imagine a sustainable world

Rio de Janeiro’s new museum, focusing on ideas rather than objects, ecology more than technology, is a little trippy, a little hippy, very worthy but rarely dull

Rowan Moore: the best architecture of 2015

From dumb towers to cool interventions, 2015 saw the gap widen between the big and brainless and the small and thoughtful

Observer critics’ reviews of the year in full

1 Undershaft, the tallest skyscraper in the City of London, revealed

Architect Eric Parry unveils plans for tallest skyscraper in the City – but the orgy of billion-pound towers doesn’t stop there

Norman Foster: ‘I have no power as an architect, none whatsoever’

Ahead of a major urban design conference, the architect says we must plan for a more sustainable lifestyle – and discusses his disappointment at the likely rejection of his Thames Hub airport