Art

Art

Collage of Hawaiian art featuring a statue with a grimacing face and shell teeth, and a dark wooden tiki god statue, framed by tropical leaves and flowers.
The flag that reminds us what Hawaii might have been

Look at the Union Jack sitting atop Hawaii’s official flag — this British Museum exhibition celebrates its culture before it was subsumed by America


Illustration of people drinking at a bar.
The artist Beryl Cook was hated by critics — now she’s having her moment

Illustration of a collage featuring a church, various people, and gold coins.
The new breed of super-rich giving fortunes to charity (sorry, kids)
Entrepreneurs

Collage of a painting of a brown horse rearing and a portrait of a man.
Is Stubbs’s Whistlejacket experimental — or just unfinished?

Collage of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and the Bayeux Tapestry.
Collage of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and the Bayeux Tapestry.
Officials sought Queen Mother’s help to borrow Bayeux Tapestry in 1980s

Collage of artist Ai WeiWei, with a close-up of his face behind a plastic sheet and a full body shot of him sitting on wooden stairs.
Collage of artist Ai WeiWei, with a close-up of his face behind a plastic sheet and a full body shot of him sitting on wooden stairs.
Ai Weiwei: ‘You in the West can’t compete with China’

Collage of a painting of a brown horse rearing and a portrait of a man.
Collage of a painting of a brown horse rearing and a portrait of a man.
Is Stubbs’s Whistlejacket experimental — or just unfinished?







Photography


Sir Winston Churchill memorial in The Times newspaper with photos of the funeral procession.
How Churchill’s death led to The Times’s first front-page picture

Queues of mourners, photographers scaling scaffolding — the death of a wartime leader is captured in fascinating detail in these archive images

Sir Winston Churchill memorial in The Times newspaper with photos of the funeral procession.
How Churchill’s death led to The Times’s first front-page picture


‘Whale-watcher’s dream’: humpback double breach captured in Sydney