Art and design

Should you wish to know what the cesspit of a Norman fortress smelled like, Tasha Marks has ventured there. Go to Rochester Castle,...

‘There is a little bit of gay in everyone today,” sing Michael Klein and Gillian Bartlam, the lead singers of Everyone Involved, a...

On my way to Hard Graft, a new exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London, I sat beside an employee with a lanyard...

I clearly remember the day this picture was taken. It was 26 December 2004. I was driving to Bavaria to take photographs after...

Eerie, desolate wastes in old novels, salt marshes are still seen as flat, grey and inhospitable landscapes today. Rainforests, meadows, oceans and even...

ArtVan Gogh: Poets and LoversTaking us from euphoria to despair, Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers promises to be spectacular. Including works rarely on...

Your debut album, Big Science (1982), opens with: “Good evening, this is your captain, we are about to attempt a crash landing”, while...

I grew up near Penny Lane in Liverpool but I didn’t see many blue suburban skies. Just like any other northern industrial city,...

On a summer morning in the Swiss city of Basel, groups of commuters bob merrily down the Rhine. They’re not on boats but...