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
Art
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?
Marina Abramović: ‘The planet is dying. We have to be warriors’
In an exclusive interview in Tasmania, the performance artist explains why she stays out of the studio, resists nostalgia … and how she ate three raw onions
• Video: Have you got what it takes to follow the Abramovic method?
• Zoe Williams: How I became a convert to the cult of Marina Abramovic
• Marina Abramović’s weirdest moments in art – in pictures
Beach cafe, billionaire’s retreat, wedding marquee: second lives of the Serpentine pavilions
Everyone from Ai Weiwei and Frank Gehry to Zaha Hadid has designed a folly for the Serpentine gallery, but what happens to these starchitect baubles after their summer in the sun?
A natural fit: Margaret Howell on her fashion tribute to Barbara Hepworth
The fashion designer reveals how the first major Barbara Hepworth exhibition in London for almost 50 years at Tate Britain inspired a range of clothes
‘I prefer art to fast cars’: fund manager helps British Museum buy Picasso works
Hamish Parker, the modest but discerning benefactor, has donated millions to enable the museum to acquire prints by the great Spanish artist