Kerry James Marshall, ‘poised between narrative and allegory’

If you’re planning to enter our Urban Life round, which launches next week, take these tips from four of last year’s top ten photographers

Lee Miller’s artistic and historical sensibility

Spanning the 1920s to 1970s, Into Abstraction: Modern British Art and the Landscape, at Firstsite in Colchester, examines the evolution of abstract art during periods of sweeping social and political

The search for still-life subjects led the artist Kate Friend to some of the greatest gardens and gardeners in the country, discovers Tiffany Daneff

From childhood collections to international exhibitions, artist Steve McPherson transforms the Kent coast’s cast-offs into powerful works of memory, mystery and meaning