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  • Manuela PinkMartini

    Turin retreat: a home full of intimate spaces

  • Alvaro Barrington photographed in his east London studio by Suki Dhanda for the Observer New Review.

    ‘Biggie, Tupac, Ghostface – those guys saved my life’: Alvaro Barrington on hip-hop, carnival and his Tate show

    Ahead of his major Tate commission, one of the stars of modern art discusses his diverse cultural influences and why his new work will explore his Caribbean and American roots
  • Judy Chicago, detail from In the Beginning, from Birth Project, 1982.

    Judy Chicago: Revelations review – six decades of table-turning body politics

    Best known for her 70s Dinner Table homage to heroic women, the American artist moves centre stage at last in a show of variously blazing, bold, crude, generous work inspired by female subjugation and power
  • Composite image of buildings that have been sold off, for sale signs, and falling coins

    Spas, bars and luxury hotels: how Britain’s historic buildings are being sold off to the highest bidder

  • 327 questionable art

    Simone Lia: Questionable art – cartoon

  • A man asleep on a park bench at night.

    The big picture: Dhruv Malhotra’s open-air sleeper in night-time Delhi

  • Sectarian Murals by Gareth McConnell, published by Sorika

    Belfast’s sectarian murals up close and less personal – in pictures

  • Hannah Starkey Metaverse, May 2022, 2022 framed c-type print mounted on aluminium 121.5 x 157.5 cm © Hannah Starkey, courtesy Maureen Paley, London

    Art
    Hannah Starkey review – women scrutinised in unsafe spaces

  • Lady Sanity performs in Stan Douglas’s ISDN.

    Art and design
    Reverb review – summer’s here and the time is right for dancing in a concrete basement!

  • A detail from Peeling Back, 1974, from Female Rejection Drawing by Judy Chicago.

    Art and design
    Judy Chicago: Revelations review – cosmic cobblers from a dinner party goddess

  • Ethel Walker, Decoration: The Excursion of Nausicaa, 1920 detail

    Art
    Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920 review – revelations and mystifying omissions

  • Coss Willi Red hat at Melbourne Out Loud: Life through the lens of Rennie Ellis

    ‘People were the stars’: Rennie Ellis, the photographer who captured how Australians dressed, danced, loved and felt

  • An aircraft on the tarmac of the flooded Salgado Filho international airport in southern Brazil

    The week around the world in 20 pictures

    War in Gaza, the Russian offensive in Kharkiv, Rishi Sunak in the rain and Cate Blanchett in Cannes: the last seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists
  • Ed Clark’s Locomotion, 1963.

    American action, blockbusting birds and Alvaro Barrington’s gallery takeover – the week in art

    A forgotten star from the golden age of abstraction, avian amazements and new ideas in a grand neoclassical hall – all in your weekly dispatch
  • Rowan Moore

    Divisive, ugly, gloomy: when will the City of London see the light on tall towers?

    Rowan Moore
  • Popular with fashion houses … the seashore chapel in Beidaihe.

    ‘Our parents did all the hard work. We don’t have to’: China’s seaside haven for the ‘lying flat’ generation

  • The Glasgow School of Art with scaffolding and fire damage

    Mackintosh building restoration should be taken out of Glasgow art school’s hands, say experts

  • Quite a view from the sofa … the treehouse by the artificial waterfall.

    Romans in togas, shepherds in saunas and the Bridgerton garden in bloom … my wild day at Chelsea flower show

  • 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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