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Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth should honour our past struggles
Monument by Rachel Whiteread
John Bird

Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth should honour our past struggles

Giorgio Morandi: an Italian artist of understated brilliance
Courtyard on Via Fondazza (1954) by Giorgio Morandi
John Bird

Giorgio Morandi: an Italian artist of understated brilliance

Harry Styles’s jumpsuits and the Jubilee: It's the cultural moments of the year
Greg James picks Harry Styles’s jumpsuits as his cultural moment of the year. Illustration: The Big Issue
best of the year

Harry Styles’s jumpsuits and the Jubilee: It's the cultural moments of the year

Why The Crown stars have unveiled a giant sculpture of a homeless person
the crown/ homeless statue
Homelessness

Why The Crown stars have unveiled a giant sculpture of a homeless person

Prizes announced for Big Issue Christmas Kids Cover Competition
Big Issue Kids Cover Competition winners
Competition

Prizes announced for Big Issue Christmas Kids Cover Competition

Cézanne left me jaded, but I still dream of owning one of his works
Paul Cézanne
John Bird

Cézanne left me jaded, but I still dream of owning one of his works

Just Be Nice! Real Hackney Dave rallies UK artists for essential message
Dave Buonaguidi
Art special

Just Be Nice! Real Hackney Dave rallies UK artists for essential message

The witch is a post-#MeToo icon of defiance, solidarity and creativity
Group of women dressed as witch coven reading spell book in forest.
Culture

The witch is a post-#MeToo icon of defiance, solidarity and creativity

How graffiti artist Opake overcame addiction and homelessness and is now changing lives
Opake
Art

How graffiti artist Opake overcame addiction and homelessness and is now changing lives

Homeless people get creative with self-portraits for new photo exhibition
homelessness photos
Homelessness

Homeless people get creative with self-portraits for new photo exhibition

This evaporating pavement art is highlighting how heatwaves are a threat to rough sleepers
homeless in heatwave
UK HEATWAVE

This evaporating pavement art is highlighting how heatwaves are a threat to rough sleepers

This Is The Modern World: New exhibition showcases Paul Weller from The Jam to The Style Council
Music

This Is The Modern World: New exhibition showcases Paul Weller from The Jam to The Style Council

Walter Sickert – an artist of controversy and complexity
John Bird

Walter Sickert – an artist of controversy and complexity

These artists are turning their street into a solar power station
Climate activism

These artists are turning their street into a solar power station

Exclusive: Government has spent £1.5m on art for official buildings since start of pandemic
Government Art Collection
Politics

Exclusive: Government has spent £1.5m on art for official buildings since start of pandemic

This week's Big TV picks: Art That Made Us, Hacks, Slow Horses and The Andy Warhol Diaries
The Spong Man, displayed in the British Library. Credit: BBC/ClearStory/Menace
TV

This week's Big TV picks: Art That Made Us, Hacks, Slow Horses and The Andy Warhol Diaries

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Our most beautiful art treasures hide a multitude of sins
John Bird

Our most beautiful art treasures hide a multitude of sins

Abstract beauty to light up an increasingly ugly world
John Bird

Abstract beauty to light up an increasingly ugly world

Meet the winner of The Big Issue Kids Christmas Cover Competition 2021!
Kids Cover

Meet the winner of The Big Issue Kids Christmas Cover Competition 2021!

Art must not be the only way our children enjoy the natural world
John Bird

Art must not be the only way our children enjoy the natural world