He captured poets, jazz giants and everyday black America. As a new exhibition of the great Harlem-born photographer’s work opens, his widow Sherry Turner DeCarava remembers his craftOnce, when asked why his prints were so dark, Roy DeCarava replied, “I happen to believe that photography is not about black and white; it’s about greys.” At L

Designer who shook up ideas of what a book cover should be and gave the Independent newspaper its distinctive lookFrom the time he joined Macmillan Publishers as art director in 1966, Nicholas Thirkell, who has died aged 79, did much to overhaul the conventions of book design. He did this by using hardcover jackets to raise “questions which can o

The award-winning writer takes over the role intended to encourage engagement with high quality fictionColm Tóibín has been named as the new laureate for Irish fiction, taking over from Sebastian Barry.The three-year role is intended to “acknowledge the contribution of fiction writers to Irish artistic and cultural life”, as well as to encour

National Gallery, LondonSold in 1921 for a record price, this youth in blue and silver is back after 100 years away. Yet it’s as hokey a vision of English art as a Disney cartoon of a fox huntYou must remember Thomas Gainsborough’s Blue Boy. It’s the painting that gets stolen from a rich man’s house in the 1929 Laurel and Hardy short Wrong

Barbican, LondonA day of concerts featuring music written in imprisonment during the Holocaust was a powerful testament moving from rage to irony “Our endeavour with respect to art was commensurate with our will to live”...

The Canadian comedian's late-night show, Full Frontal, began its seventh season Thursday and an episode of her interview podcast, Full Release, will be featured at the Hot Docs...

Bridgewater Hall, ManchesterMahler’s huge Third Symphony marked a triumphant opening of the Hallé’s spring seasonThe once familiar sight of bustling Bridgewater Hall greeted the Hallé orchestra, who opened their spring...

French fashion designer Manfred Thierry Mugler, whose dramatic designs were worn by celebrities like Madonna, Lady Gaga and Cardi B, has died. He was 73.

A new collection of photographs reveals the lives survivors have built and the legacies they have passed down the generationsThe film and photographic images that emerged from the Holocaust, often in a blurrily dark monochrome,...

The latest in our series of writers highlighting lesser-known films available to stream is an ode to an excruciatingly tense Scottish thrillerAccidentally shooting someone in the head can really put a downer on a holiday. Just...