The visual twist

“The only direction Britney gave me was that she wanted to die in the video,” said fashion photographer David LaChapelle of the instructions he received for his video of her 2003 single “Everytime”. R

A new book of bird photography celebrates not only the avian world, but the photographers using creative techniques to produce original artworks, from characterful studio portraits to eye-catching abstracts, writes Graeme Green

‘IT’S NOT A chest, not a butt, it’s not a torso — it’s a butt-chin,” says artist Jwan Yosef in his charming, beautifully polite speaking manner. “It’s fun for me to abstract body parts of mine that ar

I’VE BEEN DEVELOPING A PORTRAIT STYLE of painting that combines realistic female characters in surrealistic backdrops. The women are usually built through a collage-style process; borrowing eyes, nose

On the catwalk, this season’s most covetable prints are gallery-worthy. Naomi Pike traces fashion’s renewed love of wearable art

With a flurry of hits and a flair for tapping into the cultural zeitgeist, the globetrotting singer has achieved the status of international icon. In-between stops on her whirlwind tour, she reflects on literature, letting love in and the transformative power of live performance