Editor's Choice - Art and Design

Bonani Africa Festival of Photography

Documentary photography has played its part in the struggle against South African Apartheid. Now two veterans of that era are determined it will play its part in the present and future of their country.

Omar Badsha, Director of Bonani Africa Festival of Photography, an click exhibition which has just opened in Cape Town and Chris Ledochowski is one of the award-winning entrants.

They explain the power of visual essays to illuminate change, achievement and the on-going challenges their people face.

Istanbul Special

The Strand visits the European Capital of Culture 2010 in this special programme examining the rich culture the city has to offer.

Lucian Freud

Now 87, Lucian Freud is one of the most important living artists in the world. The exhibition at the Pompidou Centre marks the first time his work has been shown in France since his last retrospective in 1987. It is composed of around fifty large sized paintings, as well as graphic works and photographs of the artist's London studio. Harriett visited the exhibition and spoke to curator Cecile Debray.

click Photogallery of Freud's work

The 400th anniversary of the death of Caravaggio.

As one of the great masters of Western Art, his life was also shrouded in tales of sex and violence, making him also one of the most notorious. Professor Breda Ennis discusses the awaited exhibition at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome which brings together his greatest works from around the world.