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Art & design

  • painting of trees over a lake

    Why the paintings of this Dutch master help me see the world differently

  • Dancers Pauline Okumu and Natalia Como

    Dance Centre Kenya’s Nutcracker – a photo essay

    Kenya’s pre-eminent and most diverse dance school is committed to teaching talented dancers, irrespective of their ability to pay for training. The photographer Luis Tato watched the company rehearse and perform the Nutcracker, the classical ballet traditionally performed at Christmas, at the Kenya National Theatre in Nairobi
  • Andy Warhol: Joseph Beuys, 1980-1983.

    Warhol on Beuys, Pauline Boty’s swinging 60s and jugs in abundance – the week in art

    Warhol captures his friend with icy darkness, Bruce McLean chooses pottery over provocation and a contemporary gem on the north Wales coast
  • Northern lights over rocks and water in Norway

    Northern lights photographer of the year 2023 – in pictures

  • Accidentally Wes Anderson: The Exhibition – the social media phenomenon comes to life this Winter in London. Accidentally Wes Anderson: The Exhibition launches in London’s Kensington on 8th December. Warrender Baths Soo Burnell

    ‘You know it when you see it’: Accidentally Wes Anderson exhibition opens in London

  • Mike Parr

    Melbourne’s Anna Schwartz gallery drops artist Mike Parr after political piece on Israel-Gaza war

  • Art Basel Miami install shot

    ‘My art makes a statement’: what to expect at this year’s Art Basel Miami

Reviews

  • ‘Almost psychedelic blues, reds and golds’ … The Pistoia Trinity altarpiece, c 1455-60, showing in Pesellino: A Renaissance Master Revealed at the National Gallery.

    Exhibitions
    Pesellino review – a lost star of the Florentine Renaissance shines again

  • Turner prize 2023

    Turner prize 2023
    Turner prize 2023 – and the winner should be…

  • There is always a man on the shore, his back to us … a still from John Akomfrah’s Arcadia.

    John Akomfrah
    John Akomfrah: Arcadia review – celebration of Mayflower overwhelms the senses

  • Lisa Lyon and Robert Mapplethorpe, 1982 Silver Gelatin Print 50.8 x 40.6 cm (16 x 20 in) Courtesy: Alison Jacques, Used by permission

    Photography
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Subject Object Image review – penises, perfection and Patti Smith

Photography

  • woman in a darkened room looks up at the 6-metre illuminated sculpture

    Notre Dame and the Siberian chill: Friday’s best photos

  • Jakarta 10 street photographers around the world have been commissioned to capture the urban environment of ten global megacities, with a population exceeding 10 million. Capturing a snapshot of life in their cities for the National Gallery of Victoria’s Triennial

    Megacities: life in the cities home to more than 10 million people – photo essay

    From Tokyo to Cairo, 10 photographers around the world have captured a snapshot of life in their cities for the National Gallery of Victoria’s Triennial
  • Composite of images from the book "We The Spirits"

    Primal dreams: the world’s wildest winter masquerades – in pictures

    Photographer Jason Gardner travelled for more than 15 years documenting carnival traditions across the world, capturing the costumes and traditions that link participants to ancestral folklore
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Me and my national art pass

  • Charlotte Patmore at the Brighton Museum.

    ‘Galleries help you to connect to yourself’
    A photographer’s week with the National Art Pass

  • Emmy Watts and her family at Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

    ‘Art has been my solace’
    A mother’s week with the National Art Pass

  • Daniel Dzonu Clarke at Tate Britain.

    ‘The more art I see, the broader my perspective gets’
    A visual artist’s week with the National Art Pass

  • Father Leaning In With Children And Looking At Artifacts On Display In Museum

    The positive effects of art
    From developing our brains to keeping us healthy

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Architecture

  • Saltburn, actually Drayton House, a baroque mansion is shown against a blue sky. In the foreground teenagers lounge on the grass next to a lake.

    The real Saltburn – and 10 more scene-stealing stately homes from films

  • The leaning Garisenda tower, pictured here next to its taller cousin Asinelli,

    Fixing leaning tower of Bologna will take at least 10 years and €20m, says mayor

  • Archeologists at the site of Collyweston Palace in Northamptonshire

    Village’s amateur archaeologists find lost Tudor palace in back garden

  • Jonathan Hill

    Jonathan Hill obituary

Visual arts

  • Nan Goldin speaks during a protest in front of the courthouse where the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy is taking place, in White Plains, NY, in August 2021

    Nan Goldin named art world’s most influential figure

  • Joshua Reynold’s Portrait of Mai (Omai)

    A kiss, a queen and a battered Venus: the Art Fund celebrates 120 years of saving art

    This week the national charity for art, established on 11 November 1903, reaches its 120th birthday. Here are a few highlights of the great works it has helped to save for the nation
  • Pietrangelo Buttafuoco in 2011.

    Venice Biennale’s new, rightwing director has art world guessing

    Meloni’s party is pleased by the appointment but Pietrangelo Buttafuoco has surprised before – not least by adopting Islam
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