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Art & design

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Why are celebrities destroying multimillion dollar mansions?

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

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

    Tate Modern’s survey of Kandinsky, Münter and the rest of the avant garde Blue Rider group is an exhilarating riot of colour – but also abounds with anxieties about the coming conflicts of the 20th century
  • THRESHOLDS at the German Pavilion & La Certosa.

    A lost astronaut, looted treasure and a hit naked Turk: the 60th Venice Biennale – in pictures

    From the thrice-daily Swan Lake to a tragedy in an asbestos factory, Guardian photographer David Levene went behind the scenes at the ‘Art Olympics’
  • Refugee Astronaut by Yinka Shonibare.

    Venice Biennale 2024 review – everything everywhere all at once

  • Eliza Naranjo Morse installs A Return to Relationship, 2024; Collected earth and acrylic on drywall, 25 ft. long

    ‘Great change is possible’: female artists grapple with social and political upheaval

  • Stephen Giddings in Stephen

    Stephen review – fact blurs with fiction in powerfully raw study of addiction

  • The Yanomami Struggle

    The origin of all things: Kyotographie 2024 – a photo essay

Reviews

  • 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

  • Decolonised Structures, 2022-23 by Yinka Shonibare winston churchill detail

    Yinka Shonibare
    Yinka Shonibare CBE: Suspended States review – gorgeously recognisable, but is that enough?

Photography

  • Woman carrying vegetation on her head

    Storyteller: photography by Tim Hetherington – in pictures

  • A young rebel fighter in Liberia.

    ‘He could create beauty out of horror’: the extraordinary life and photography of Tim Hetherington

    He joined rebel convoys in Africa and turned his time with GIs in Afghanistan into an Oscar-nominated film. But his subject wasn’t war – it was people. Ahead of a major show, our writer remembers his former colleague
  • Two men standing and two others walking in a hotel lobby with yellow walls patterned by the shadows of blinds and screensPlease caption: Magnum Photos partners with an esteemed literary magazine, Granta, for its upcoming sale from April 29–May 5. Titled Fable, itl can also be visited at 63 Gee Street in London on Wednesday, May 1 2024. The Magnum Square Print Sale takes place on the Magnum Photos Shop: http://store.magnumphotos.com/

    The big picture: Gueorgui Pinkhassov’s shadow play in a 90s Tokyo hotel

    The Russian Magnum photographer’s work celebrates the abstract side of vision, with a vivid exchange of form, light and pattern

Architecture

  • CGI depicting proposed South East Faversham development

    Is Kent ready for the Duchy of Cornwall’s next Poundbury?

  • Rowan Moore

    Saudi Arabia’s 105-mile long Line city has been cut a little short – by 103.5 miles

    Rowan Moore
  • CMAT, AKA Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson.

    On my radar: CMAT’s cultural highlights

  • Derek Jarman’s home at Dungeness

    Prospect Cottage: Derek Jarman’s seaside home – in pictures

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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