Has the Turner prize lost its power to shock? No – thanks to James Richards’s sphincter shots. But it’s Tris Vonna-Michell’s spellbinding spoken-word travelogues that deserve to win
Other contenders for architecture award include Birmingham library, Everyman theatre in Liverpool and LSE student centre
German-born photographer beat Adam Bartos and other big names for an epic look inside factory farms, slaughterhouses and supermarkets
• Farm to table: Michael Schmidt exposes the reality of what we eat – in pictures
• Why our guilt about consumption is all-consuming – Slavoj Žižek on the theme of this year’s Prix Pictet
A trip to the the Style Suites at the Savoy reveals the glamour, and the anxiety, of dressing for the red carpet
It was a huge technological leap into the unknown – and a physical and psychological challenge for stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney. Here, she and director Alfonso Cuarón talk about how they made Gravity an Oscar favourite
We all use technology to escape from our lives. But sometimes you need to see a film about a man having sex with his phone for it to really hit home