During the Troubles in Ireland, Darran Anderson remembers finding sanctuary in County Derry’s amusement arcades 

In the beloved Japanese anime films, childhood is a fantastic place of nightmare and wonder

From his dreams of Glasgow to nocturnal self-portraits, there was an edge to the writer and artist: a deep well of strangeness

Inciting a sense of of playful menace, the ethos of the legendary art school resurfaced in forces as diverse as Terence Conran, Factory Records, and Leigh Bowery

The British Museum’s survey of Japanese comics plunges us into their strange, visionary wonderlands

The painter found something much more important than grandeur in ‘ukiyo-e’: the messy realities of everyday life 

The retrospective at Tate Britain of the veteran photographer is filled with masterpieces that are also crime scenes

Isao Takahata’s landmark 1988 anime, which now receives its US theatrical release, crafts a dark moral universe through moments of poignant stillness

What a brief history of creative destruction reveals about the Sotheby’s shredding stunt

From Grave of the Fireflies to The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, the visionary director grounded fantasy with emotional force

Two shows in London, by Yto Barrada and Ala Younis, suggest that the unwritten future need not be as unjust or limiting as the erased past

Douglas Murphy’s examination of former mayor Boris Johnson’s botched projects and Iain Sinclair’s London lament chart a battle for the city’s soul