Art

10Foot: ‘All the disasters of this country are entirely predictable, preventable and intentional’
Museum of Homelessness

10Foot: ‘All the disasters of this country are entirely predictable, preventable and intentional’

10Foot is in conversation with the founders of the Museum of Homelessness, Matt and Jess Turtle, about why he contributed his first-ever sculpture to their latest exhibition on the criminalisation of homelessness

‘The people made me a star’: On her 100th birthday, why Marilyn Monroe still matters
Photography

‘The people made me a star’: On her 100th birthday, why Marilyn Monroe still matters

Marilyn Monroe remains compelling even 100 years after her birth. New National Portrait Gallery exhibition Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait aims to explore why

Want to get healthy this summer? Add the arts to your core routine
Arts

Want to get healthy this summer? Add the arts to your core routine

Scientist Daisy Fancourt outlines the ways in which engaging with the arts can improve your health and metal wellbeing

Artist David Shrigley: ‘If Nigel Farage had become a sand sculptor we would all have been better off’
Q&A

Artist David Shrigley: ‘If Nigel Farage had become a sand sculptor we would all have been better off’

Andy Burnham: ‘Making space for people to create is how we build a healthier, more hopeful society’
Andy Burnham

Andy Burnham: ‘Making space for people to create is how we build a healthier, more hopeful society’

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Inside the Big Issue: Extract the juice with David Shrigley
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Extract the juice with David Shrigley

Meet Rene Robbins, the 100-year-old artist who survived homelessness: ‘I’d cry myself to sleep’
Art

Meet Rene Robbins, the 100-year-old artist who survived homelessness: ‘I’d cry myself to sleep’

Gilbert & George: ‘Homeless people tend not to end up in a picture’
Art

Gilbert & George: ‘Homeless people tend not to end up in a picture’

The curious story of our public statues and why they end up worshipped, loved, assaulted or ignored
Books

The curious story of our public statues and why they end up worshipped, loved, assaulted or ignored

Trump is learning what happens when you’re slapdash in politics
John Bird

Trump is learning what happens when you’re slapdash in politics

See the best of Big Issue’s legendary Spring Kids Cover Competition
Spring Kids Cover Competition

See the best of Big Issue’s legendary Spring Kids Cover Competition

Meet the winner of our Spring Kids Cover Competition
Spring Kiss Cover Competition

Meet the winner of our Spring Kids Cover Competition

50 years of Bongo Fury: Reliving Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart’s volatile classic
Music

50 years of Bongo Fury: Reliving Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart’s volatile classic

50 Years of Punk: Your chance to win original prints by acclaimed artists and punk giants
Exhibition

50 Years of Punk: Your chance to win original prints by acclaimed artists and punk giants

Artist Mark Blamire announced Trainspotting to the world. He’s back to tell the story 30 years on
Art

Artist Mark Blamire announced Trainspotting to the world. He’s back to tell the story 30 years on

Are Margaret Calvert and Jock Kinneir the most-seen but least-known artists in the UK?
Art

Are Margaret Calvert and Jock Kinneir the most-seen but least-known artists in the UK?

Artist Exhibit69 on new exhibition for Jealous Gallery and Big Issue: ‘It’s a full-circle moment’
Art

Artist Exhibit69 on new exhibition for Jealous Gallery and Big Issue: ‘It’s a full-circle moment’

How to enter Big Issue’s Kids Cover Competition for 2026
Spring cover competition

How to enter Big Issue’s Kids Cover Competition for 2026

Inside the Big Issue: Revolutionising the televised
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Revolutionising the televised

In pictures: Powerful new exhibition captures the eerie loneliness of deserted places
Photography

In pictures: Powerful new exhibition captures the eerie loneliness of deserted places

Top 5 graphic novels, chosen by author and illustrator Beccy Blake
Graphic novels

Top 5 graphic novels, chosen by author and illustrator Beccy Blake

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Where JMW Turner wears me out, John Constable restores me
John Bird

Where JMW Turner wears me out, John Constable restores me

The Museum of Austerity exhibition brings home the human cost of benefit cuts – MPs need to see it
Austerity

The Museum of Austerity exhibition brings home the human cost of benefit cuts – MPs need to see it

What’s the most important part of any urban landscape? The people who inhabit it
Julie Adams

What’s the most important part of any urban landscape? The people who inhabit it

In pictures: Meditative serenity with Michael Kenna’s latest exhibition Shin Shin
Photography

In pictures: Meditative serenity with Michael Kenna’s latest exhibition Shin Shin