Big Picture

Photographer Christoph Irrgang returns to the sites where masterpieces were painted to see how much they have changed

The dark daring of the extraordinary mid-century comics artist and illustrator, Italy’s answer to Norman Rockwell

The photographer used his camera and the city of lights as a doorway to poetry

The exotic world of James Bond was also that of his creator, Ian Fleming

Ukraine’s invasion of Kursk has exposed yet more flaws at the heart of Russia. Could the dictator’s regime now fall?

Domestic football returns, full of unpredictable plotlines. But there’s one thing you can count on – the fans who make the game will continue to be exploited

Pierpaolo Mittica’s photos capture everyday existence in the ‘new Pompeii’ – close to the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident

The 1924 Olympics featured a future Tarzan, the men who inspired Chariots of Fire and a farewell to the man who created the modern Games.

Lust, love and life: an exhibition about the art of the breast

It is a story that might sound familiar today: 90 years ago a football final was played as the shadow of fascism began to creep over Europe

A new novel that reimagines art’s most toxic relationship and reintroduces the photographer and artist’s legacy to the world

Government and culture do not mix.. just look what happened last time

The election might be dull, but the street art it’s inspired is anything but. And its message is: get out and vote

The remarkable legacy of the late singer, who epitomised both French cool and French angst

Forty years ago, striking miners were lied to about the EU’s role in closing pits. No wonder so many went on to vote Leave in 2016

The D-day landings didn’t just take soldiers to occupied Europe – they also delivered the trains and rail workers who helped to secure victory

After 30 years of coverups, what really happened when a Chinook helicopter crashed in 1994, killing key personnel involved in Britain’s battle with the IRA?

Great political mantras started with “Liberté, égalité, fraternité”. Can we expect anything as inspiring in this election?

Just when cinema really needs a bit of sunshine and uplift, along comes a Megaflopolis

The art that brought Paris back from the dead

The film festival is now about making deals, but in its early days it was about making stars, as young Europeans mixed with Hollywood’s elite

In an edited extract, the author of a new book explores the eerie ruins of an abandoned resort in the island’s ‘forbidden zone’

Photographer Polly Braden has spent two years following the lives of Ukrainian women and children displaced by Putin’s invasion

How one night of music inspired Kandinsky’s Blue Rider movement

After years of false starts, the Channel Tunnel opened 30 years ago this week. Yet Brexit shows that it has failed to bring us closer to Europe

A new exhibition of Hetherington’s greatest photographs is not of guns and bombs – but of the men who use them

Amid all the glories of Paris, the Pompidou Centre stands as a monument to modernism and to the man whose name it bears

In Brooklyn’s Little Odessa, Russians and Ukrainians live side by side, in the shadow of a distant conflict

Despite some attempts at prohibition, the tradition goes on in Spain. Like that of the bulls, its own demise will be a long, drawn-out affair

The youth movement of the 1950s was rooted in Britain’s working class, but its influence and notoriety spread across the continent

When Yugoslavia’s dictator split with Stalin in 1948, his potential rivals – politicians, intellectuals, businessmen – found themselves exiled

In a subterranean game of cat and mouse beneath the streets of the French capital, cataflics hunt cataphiles in the city’s prohibited labyrinths