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The week around the world in 20 pictures
Wildfires in California, Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington, Israeli bombardment in Gaza and Snoop Dogg at the Paris Olympics: the last seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournali...
Sir Kenneth Grange obituary
A giant of 20th-century design whose products – from food mixers to lamps and trains – became staples of British life Kenneth Grange, who has died aged 95, was the leading British product d...
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/jul/26/sir-kenneth-grange-obituary
Mind-altering montage, Taylor Swift’s costume crawl and Constable goes west – the week in art
A major retrospective of Peter Kennard’s dissenting images, the V&A goes for Swifties and The Hay Wain arrives in Bristol – all in your weekly dispatch Peter Kennard: Archive of Dissent Th...
Memories of the 1924 Paris Olympics opening ceremony – in pictures
As the opening ceremony for the 2024 Games prepares to get under way in Paris, we go back a century to the last time the French capital hosted the event Continue reading...
Roots and refuge: the year’s best mangrove images – in pictures
From an unexpected glimpse of a silky anteater to a tagged terrapin, here is a selection of this year’s winning, runner-up and commended images from the 2024 Mangrove photography awards , run b...
‘Smell it, it’s wonderful’: Dutch gallery designs tours for people with dementia
Kunstmuseum Den Haag tour sparks senses of people with dementia and their carers Eight people approached a fragrant carpet of lavender in the Kunstmuseum Den Haag gallery. Four of them had deme...
Joy Gregory unveils billboard art project at Heathrow inspired by asylum seekers
Artist known for photographic work was commissioned to create A Taste of Home in Terminal 4 tube station The UK needs more public art that confronts the major issues of the day, according to Jo...
Paris’s department stores transformed urban life. What can they teach today’s struggling shops?
Inspired by opera houses, the grands magasins were astonishing spectacles, built on a pharaonic scale. A new exhibition in the French capital charts the golden age of a dying concept On the top...
Keep on Kicken! 50 years photographing Berlin and beyond – in pictures
From cold war subcultures to topless bridesmaids, a new exhibition at Kicken Berlin features half a century of groundbreaking images Continue reading...
Protest, resistance and dissent: a retrospective of the art of Peter Kennard
The UK’s foremost political artist talks through half a century of his work, on show at the Whitechapel Gallery in London Even as he hangs work for a retrospective at one of his childhood hau...
‘Our own dirtbag Narnia’: hanging out with the trash people – in pictures
Taken in a vacant lot behind photographer Jordan Baumgarten’s home in Philadelphia, these images capture the joy of a tight neighbourhood community Continue reading...
Peter Kennard: Archive of Dissent review – electrifying visual shocks
Whitechapel Gallery, London Striking images spanning 50 years of protest, power and political villains fill this dark-as-hell show of DIY photomontages At the pivotal moment of a good joke, the...
Oscar Murillo: The Flooded Garden review – my inner Pollock could not be contained
TATE MODERN, LONDON Is it love or just a summer fling? Oscar Murillo has invited the public to add their own paint to his canvas – but I wouldn’t be tempted. Would I? Look at me – I’m J...
Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England: Staffor...e review – the final word on the nation’s finest buildings
Nearly 80 years after it was conceived, an update to a peerless series of guides to the country’s architecture concludes with a detailed Staffordshire handbook that, typically, isn’t just an ...
Urban Nature Project at the Natural History Museum review – it’s a wondrous jungle out there
The museum’s newly transformed gardens are a collaborative triumph, offering a walk through geological time in a landscape of ancient rocks and Jurassic planting that’s a haven for wildlife, ...
Paris 1924: Sport, Art and the Body review – an Olympic revelation from first to last
FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM, CAMBRIDGE Hollywood’s Tarzan, a swimmer from Blackpool and devout Eric Liddell are among the stars in a superb show of art, film, photography and more capturing the speed an...
‘It is our destiny’: Meet the people who rebuilt Notre Dame
In April 2019, Agnès Poirier watched a fire almost destroy the Paris cathedral. For the past five years, she has had unique access to the army of artisans tasked with rebuilding the 12th-century...
Come As You Really Are review – Heaven is a Ford Escort clad in swirly carpet!
From yarn bombers to doll modifiers to wood turners, this joyous show – put together by Hetain Patel and Artangel – features 14,000 pieces by diehard hobbyists in one giant gleeful celebratio...
How race influences our perception of art | Letter
DR TOBIASZ TRAWINSKI responds to an article on the decolonisation of sculptures in a Liverpool art gallery The recent debate around the decolonisation of the sculpture gallery in the Walker Art...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/15/how-race-influences-our-perception-of-art
Anti-apartheid art, Keith Haring graffiti and new life for fallen trees – the week in art
A retrospective of South African artist Gavin Jantjes, new works by Zanele Muholi and Charles Lutyens’ insights as an art therapist – all in your weekly dispatch GAVIN JANTJES: To Be Free!...