Brazilian artist Vik Muniz has painstakingly recreated the flipsides of some of the world’s most famous paintings for his show Verso at the Mauritshuis. Can you guess which works of art lie these battered old frames belong to?
Dante or Die’s Handle With Care explores our attachment to personal possessions by taking its audience into the warehouses where we stow away belongings
At 31, Simon Stone has adapted Woody Allen, re-written Ibsen not once but twice, and helmed various iconoclastic stage productions – all after starting out as an actor. He explains why going to the theatre is still a ‘cathartic social ritual’
As his play The Local Stigmatic is revived 50 years after its debut, the reclusive playwright looks back at the London underworld, the rise of celebrity culture and the debt he owes to Harold Pinter
After being attacked on the street outside his home, Brazilian performance artist Nando Messias created a one-man carnival to take a stand for men like him
Kate Winslet, Emma Thompson, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Helen Mirren among those remembering the giant of movies and theatre – known best to many as Professor Snape in Harry Potter – who has died at the age of 69
The Rabbits co-creator and star on the challenge, ‘as a whitey’, of staging the Shaun Tan-John Marsden story of colonialism, and the ‘huge onus’ to do it justice
The centrepiece of new Warhol-Weiwei show features quotes and portraits of Australians including Rosie Batty, Peter Greste, Gary Foley and Julian Assange
A polyphonic dawn chorus in the Essex edgelands