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Art & design

  • LL Cool J

    Uncropped: James Hamilton on the decay of alt-journalism and street photography

  • Ian Cairns’ photograph of Eastbourne's Towner Gallery with geometric artwork by Lothar Götz. It was published on the Guardian’s letters page on 9 July 2022.

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    We’re highlighting the best reader photography in the Guardian in print and online. Share your images with us below
  • The museum on a cliff

    ‘Massive and exciting impact’: show celebrates Spain’s first abstract art museum

    Exhibition explores how a Spanish-Filipino artist in 1966 opened a trailblazing cultural outpost in Cuenca’s ‘hanging houses’
  • The punishment of Tityus by Michelangelo.

    Hairy paint, boozy sculpture and Michelangelo’s final years – the week in art

  • Mia Hansson with her tapestry

    Experience: I’m making a lifesize replica of the Bayeux tapestry

  • A giraffe walks through a rainbow at the Zimanga Private Game Reserve in Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa.

    Week in wildlife – in pictures: a lazy leopard, a moonwalking elephant and hitchhiking ducklings

  • A woman in a tutu hangs by her arm from an open shipping container stacked among other closed containers

    Hanging in there and a dichroic shopper: Photofairs Shanghai 2024 – in pictures

Reviews

  • Wassily Kandinsky, Improvisation Deluge, 1913. Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus

    Art
    Expressionists review – the vivid premonitions of Europe’s wildest-eyed geniuses

  • Exterior view of the space in which to place me (Jeffrey Gibson’s exhibition for the United States Pavilion, 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia), April 20 – November 24, 2024. Forecourt sculpture: the space in which to place me (2024).

    Venice Biennale 2024
    Armed guards, reparations and the lives of others: Venice Biennale 2024 – review

  • Voices from the ether come and go … John Akomfrah’s British pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

    Venice Biennale
    John Akomfrah’s British pavilion at Venice Biennale review – a magnificent and awful journey

  • Hypnotic and cinematic … The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula, 1610, with a cameo by Caravaggio who is pictured behind Ursula.

    Art and design
    The Last Caravaggio review – a gripping and murderously dark finale

Photography

  • ‘Goofing around like kids’ … Mist, 2013.

    Outlaw attitude: skaters, saunas and spontaneous stripping – in pictures

  • On the way to Santa Paula … the road trip from LA in an old Merc.

    The photography studio with four wheels and a sunroof: Adali Schell’s best shot

    ‘The sun trickled in just as we were coming down the mountain. When I looked back at Victoria and Keni, the wind was rustling their clothes and hair. I was screaming because it was so beautiful!’
  • ‘What could be a more fitting symbol of British suburbia?’ … photographer Gareth Gardner was transfixed by this hedge in Cheshire.

    ‘This one’s like a castle!’ The hunt for the world’s wildest, daftest and most beautiful hedges

    They can swallow road signs and trigger lethal neighbour feuds. From the suburbs of Britain to the deserts of Arizona, we explore a show celebrating glorious green borders

Architecture

  • ‘A changeable system’… the Study Pavilion at the Technical University of Braunschweig, designed by Berlin based Architects Gustav Düsing & Max Hacke.

    ‘It should feel like an extension of the living room’: radical study centre is named best building in Europe

  • black and white photo of a big building with word hippodrome on sign

    Lost New York: remembering the city’s forgotten landmarks

  • Dandelions in a meadow against a clear blue sky.

    Clock this delightful paean to dandelions

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Why are celebrities destroying multimillion dollar mansions?

    Arwa Mahdawi

Visual arts

  • Horn of plenty … a tapestry fragment from Flanders, c1500.

    Artistic unicorns, protest ceramics and queer art from Morocco – the week in art

  • Caravaggio’s The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula, 1610.

    Death-defying darkness, thought-provoking pop art and unrepentant nudes – the week in art

    Caravaggio proves haunting, Yinka Shonibare brings colonial figures down to size and Monica Sjöö photographs the goddess feminism – all in your weekly dispatch
  • Gallery assistants pose with a participatory installation entitled Add Colour (Refugee Boat) during the press preview of Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind exhibition at Tate Modern in London on 13 February 2024.

    Let’s tell the story of art without men

    Letters: Dr Suzy Tutchell champions the work of past and present female artists, while Caroline Higgitt takes Francesco Vezzoli’s challenge
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