The best exhibitions in London this summer, from Barbie to Vincent van Gogh

Our long, glorious summer lies ahead. And what the city lacks in sunshine it makes up for with dozens of fantastic, illuminating art exhibitions. Here’s our pick of the shows you can see. Open now These excellent exhibitions, which run throughout the summer, are not to be missed. Michelangelo: The Last Decades A Study of … Read more

Fragile Beauty review – Elton John and David Furnish’s photo collection ranges from basic to brutal

The latest exhibition of works from Sir Elton John and David Furnish’s vast photography collection is everything you’d expect: sparkling, iconoclastic – and a little basic. The entry point to the V&A’s largest ever photography exhibition promises, as the title Fragile Beauty suggests, the frisson of danger in the pursuit of something beautiful: the first … Read more

Elton John’s private art advisor on his collecting obsession

“One time I tried to give him back a few months later – I was very new to the job, but I should have known better,” says Newell Harbin – Hannah Starkey A few years ago, Newell Harbin was at Elton John’s house – the one in Atlanta, as opposed to the one in Windsor, … Read more

Kate Garraway says learning husband Derek would die was a ‘stop the clock’ moment

Kate Garraway has said it was a ‘stop the clock’ moment when she heard her husband Derek Draper would die. The TV star made an emotional appearance on ITV’s Good Morning Britain just three days after laying her husband to rest at a funeral on Friday, speaking of her “outpouring of love for everyone who … Read more