Fashion noir

With photographers like Guy Bourdin at the helm, fashion campaigns during the 70s and 80s became increasingly weird and wonderful. Bourdin's photographs in particular skewed all notions of straightforward glamour by introducing morbid, eroticised undertones and bizarre narrative strands. His models were often prostrate or contorted, cropped or obscured and - most worrying of all - seemingly unconscious or dead.

A painting thought to be Michelangelo's first work

Gallery buys Michelangelo’s ‘first painting’

News Thu 14 May, AT 17:26

The Kimbell Art Museum in Texas has bought The Torment of Saint Anthony, believed to be painted by the young master when he was just 12 or 13

Picture books: Fashion statements

Photograph by Horst Diekgerdes, 2005

Photograph by Horst Diekgerdes, 2005

Jeff Koons comes to London

The first major UK exhibition of Jeff Koons’s art opens at the Serpentine Gallery this summer

Clayoquot Vancouver Island

This week’s dream: luxury camping in Canada

News Tue 12 May, AT 16:34

Experience ‘the great outdoors at its greatest’ on Clayoquot Sound in Vancouver Island

Italy Dolomites

Trekking in the Dolomites

News Tue 12 May, AT 16:02

The towering limestone peaks of Italy’s South Tyrol, which feels more like Austria

Royal Palace Stockholm

Baroque Stockholm

News Tue 12 May, AT 15:40

The Swedish capital’s surprisingly sensual architectural legacy from its period as a ‘Great Power’ in the 17th century

Comic captains Simon and Kirby

For our final column, an exquisite showcase of two gentlemen who rank as veritable grand masters in the comics medium. Together, writer Joe Simon and artist Jack Kirby had an effervescent and riveting magic that extended far beyond their iconic creation of Captain America in 1940. Although synonymous with superheroes, theirs was a partnership which thrived in an array of genres, as this majestic anthology (hand-picked by Simon) highlights.

Tiger India

Tracking endangered tigers in India’s national parks

News Tue 12 May, AT 14:10

Eco-tourism adventures designed to help save the big cats of Madhya Pradesh

Home Hotel Buenos Aires

Hotel of the week: Home Hotel, Buenos Aires

News Tue 12 May, AT 13:53

A boutique hotel with its own ‘urban oasis’ and the city’s best DJs playing in the bar

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