We must use arts funding to rewild our cultural landscape after coronavirus
Cultural recovery shouldn’t just mean business as usual – arts funding should be used to help young working-class creatives
Art and design
New Banksy piece celebrates superhero health workers
Artwork depicts child playing with nurse toy, with Batman and Spider-Man discarded in a bin
‘It’s great if you’re bored with Netflix’: video art flourishes in lockdown
From dogs’ plums to death metal shrieks, video artworks are finding a new audience hungry for culture that is accessible, original and bizarre
Is Jenny from the block or the yacht? The poll taking the temperature of our times
Locked down in Milan, the artist Francesco Vezzoli has decided to survey the world’s emotional state under coronavirus – with a little help from art history, pop culture and Prada
Love and obsession: how one of the finest UK ceramics collections ended up in a London council flat
Michael Evans filled every available space with a treasure trove of British, French and Japanese works. Now they’re up for auction
Art books to self-isolate with, from Patti Smith to Lucian Freud – the week in art
Picasso’s inner beast, a sizzling take on Bacon and Buñuel’s last breath are among our art biographies to curl up with – all in your weekly dispatch