Fashion must fight the scourge of dumped clothing clogging landfills
Every year millions of garments are discarded as consumers ditch fast-fashion styles for a new wardrobe. At last the industry is acting – but more has to be done
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What will the car of 2040 be like?
Following the announcement petrol and diesel engine cars will be banned from sale in 2040, the car of the future is up for grabs
‘We found it rolled up in a tube’: Alice Cooper discovers Warhol classic after 40 years
The rock star Alice Cooper has found an Andy Warhol masterpiece that could be worth millions “rolled up in a tube” in a storage locker.
Review: Soul of a Nation – the sorrowful, shattering art of black power
Tate Modern, London
Searing artistic responses to the agony of America’s racial struggle sit alongside powerful abstracts by forgotten artists. This compelling show puts the battle for civil rights in a brutal, brilliant new light
Three men charged over Damien Hirst counterfeits.
Fake ‘limited-edition’ Hirst prints were sold online to dozens of buyers by a New York group that included a man previously imprisoned for a similar scheme
Jeremy Deller behind ‘strong and stable my arse’ posters in London
Turner prize-winning artist says he hopes posters are self-explanatory – especially after Theresa May’s social care U-turn
Turner prize 2017: a cosmopolitan rebuff to Brexit provincialism
Amid all the rule changes, Lubaina Himid is surely the favourite to win British art’s most important prize this year
Mat Collishaw restages 1839 photography show in virtual reality
Artist says VR will change our outlook as he prepares Somerset House display based on Henry Fox Talbot’s seminal exhibition
REVIEW: Damien Hirst: Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable
Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana, Venice
Artist has once again found the underwater grotto in his mind where monsters live, making a fool out of all of us who lost faith
Queer British Art 1861-1967 review – strange, sexy, heartwrenching
From Man Ray’s portrait of Virginia Woolf to Orton’s library book collages and Noël Coward’s dressing gown, this vital survey is bursting with fascinating stories
Sandy Nairne portrait at NPG is by American artist Chuck Close
Portrait of former director of National Portrait Gallery will be first big work by Close to enter public collection in UK
Helen Marten wins Turner prize, securing second award in a month
Chair of judges praises 31-year-old artist, who recently won Hepworth prize, for baffling sculptural work which ‘reflects the condition of the world’
Yves Klein review – a superheated plunge into the wild blue yonders
Tate Liverpool
From the Fire Paintings to the works made with women’s bodies, this is a sublime homage to the visionary artist
Frieze art fair 2016 review: Everyone’s a performer in the boozy, fruity house of fun
From the crocheted loo seats to the pram-cum-barbecue and roving wet bar, there are stunts and stage-props galore. Then you turn a corner and find an artwork that sticks in your head and stays there
South Africa’s golden rhino to star in British Museum exhibition
Figures and objects from Mapungubwe, site of the first kingdom in southern Africa, are part of an exploration of 100,000 years of art
Pink Floyd’s psychedelic revolution will rock the V&A
Museum to celebrate career of pioneers who transformed live music with their dazzling light shows
Feminist art activists the Guerrilla Girls get first dedicated UK show
Whitechapel Gallery has commissioned the anonymous group to scrutinise gender diversity at hundreds of European galleries
REVIEW David Hockney RA: 82 Portraits and 1 Still-life – ‘We can feel Hockney’s deafness’
Royal Academy, London
The artist’s humorous portraits, all with the same yellow chair, are a superheated pageant of fashion and pattern
Grayson Perry creates huge phallus to represent bankers’ worldview
Artist says latest work, which is covered in banknotes and George Osborne’s image, was inspired by industry’s self-denial about gender bias
World art market stalls for first time in years
Fall of 7% a function of slowing at cheaper end of market with record prices at top end continuing to make headlines
iPhones are now the choice of drug barons and arms dealers
Letters: Apple has gained the world but lost its soul. The company has lost touch with its engineering genius and is behaving something like a rogue state
Serpentine pavilion ‘unzipped’: first look at Bjarke Ingels’ design
The Danish architect offers a sculptural space ‘like a mountain of ice cubes’ stretching across the London gallery’s lawn, to be complemented by four radical summer houses
David Hockney show will be one of Tate Britain’s biggest ever
Extensive retrospective in 2017 will cover six decades of artist’s work from early homoerotic paintings to recent LA pieces
Hieronymus Bosch – a heavenly host of delights on the road to hell
Noordbrabants Museum, Den Bosch, Netherlands
An astonishing homecoming for this madly inventive artist sets the grotesque against a deep but compassionate melancholy that burns into your soul
