Andy Warhol’s intimate polaroids: from Divine to Bianca Jagger
A new book by Taschen offers a fascinating insight of Andy Warhol’s intimate relationship with his celebrity friends – and the look he wanted from them for the photographs
Art and design
The Stirling prize 2015: the virtues of quiet craft
The shortlist for this year’s Stirling prize is dominated by ‘whispering’ candidates – scrupulous designs of brick and timber
Yoko Ono: ‘To be an artist you need courage’
For more than 50 years Yoko Ono has been campaigning – for peace, for feminism, for gun control and, most recently, against fracking. This tireless activism, she says, is at the heart of her work as an artist. Alex Needham meets her at home in New York
Body building: welcome to Beyoncé towers
Queen Bey’s curves have inspired a new skyscraper. But it’s by no means the only superstar-shaped building out there
Museums and looted art: the ethical dilemma of preserving world cultures
How can western ‘universal’ museums acquire and display artefacts without stoking the illegal arts trade and reproducing colonialist narratives?
The end of animal testing? Human-organs-on-chips win Design of the Year
They may look like humble little blocks, but these miracle devices could end animal testing, revolutionise the development of new drugs – and lead us into a world of entirely personalised medicine