Chanel haute couture show proposes a new catwalk silhouette

Karl Lagerfeld finds beauty beyond the thin with iconoclastic collection that features ovoid-shaped skirts and padded-out hips

Laura Cumming: best art of 2016

Portraits woke up, the tiny Goldfinch flew in, the Switch House switched on, and junk art triumphed

• Observer critics’ reviews of the year in full

New Jeff Koons sculpture is tribute to victims of Paris attacks

Bouquet of Tulips, currently being built, is to be installed on the plaza outside the Museum of Modern Art next year

Le Meurice Prize for contemporary art 2016-2017

Artistic creation has always been, since 1835, essential to the art of living at Le Meurice, the 5-star hotelin the 1st arrondissement of Paris opposite the Tuileries Garden, between Place de la Concorde and the Musée duLouvre on the Rue de Rivoli. The winner of the 9th edition of the Meurice Prize for contemporary art … Read more

‘You could disappear into it’: Anish Kapoor on his exclusive rights to the ‘blackest black’

Architect and artist defends controversial deal with developers of Vantablack, the blackest material ‘after a black hole’

Mark Wallinger at the Freud Museum review – mirror mirror on the ceiling

Freud Museum, London
The British artist transforms Sigmund Freud’s study into a Dalí-inspired hall of mirrors for a meta-surrealist look at art, psychoanalysis and self-obsession