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Art & design

  • ‘Don’t be afraid to shine’ … Nikita Gold

    ‘Our message? Be fabulous!’: Drag artists with Down’s syndrome – in pictures

  • Actor and model Stella Chuisse impersonates Angélique Kidjo, a singer, songwriter and composer from Benin

    Women behind the lens: ‘I Want to Be Like Her is my way of paying tribute to 10 exceptional Africans’

    Model and actor Stella Chuisse impersonates trailblazing women who have ‘changed narratives’ about the continent
  • Hot air balloons lit by a glow from below

    Pilots take to the skies at Mildura’s Big Balloon Bash – in pictures

    The ballooning competition commemorates 20 years since the 2004 World ballooning championships were held in Mildura
  • Red swirling tentacles … split obliteration 2024, Dominique White, from Dominique White: Deadweight at Whitechapel Gallery, London.

    Dominique White: Deadweight review – a beautiful, twisted sea monster

  • Shapeshifts between danger and comfort … How to slip out of your body quietly, 2018.

    Firelei Báez review – bring on the furry ciguapas: magnetic visions of diaspora

  • Delphine Lebourgeois: Punching Love

    ‘I took it personally’: Rejects, the show for artists rebuffed by the Royal Academy

  • Basic instinct … Kissing in a Bar, New York City, 1977.

    Close encounters: Arles festival of photography – in pictures

Reviews

  • The new ‘sarcophagus-like’ extension alongside the original coroner’s court building in Horseferry Road, London SW1

    Architecture
    Westminster coroner’s court extension review – an extension of deep sympathy

  • Francis Alÿs, Children’s Game #22: Jump Rope, Hong Kong, 2020 In collaboration with Rafael Ortega, Julien Devaux, and Félix Blume

    Art
    Francis Alÿs: Ricochets; Anthony McCall: Solid Light – reviews

  • Inches from injury … kids at play in Havana.

    Exhibitions
    Francis Alÿs: Ricochets review – children of the world unite in a health and safety nightmare

  • An installation review of Mona's 2024 exhibition Namedropping

    Mona
    Namedropping: is Mona’s latest exhibition its most annoying yet?

Photography

  • From the series Rotting from Within, by Abdulhamid Kircher.

    The big picture: Abdulhamid Kircher reflects on his traumatic family history

  • Oatcake shopfrontsof the Staffordshire Potteries photographed by David Fletcher.

    Oat cuisine: celebrating the oatcake sellers of Staffordshire – in pictures

    Photographer David Fletcher aims to raise the profile of an underappreciated regional speciality
  • Lily Allen and Miquita Oliver photographed in London for the Observer New Review by Perou, June 2024.

    Original Observer Photography

    The best original photographs from the Observer commissioned in June 2024

Architecture

  • Roger Walker’s 1973 complex Park Mews in Wellington’s Hataitai district

    ‘I may have reacted too far’: architect Roger Walker on his groundbreaking buildings

  • A platform with stone blocks overlooks the ocean and an overcast sky

    Sydney firm scoops top NSW architecture prize for rebuild of North Head viewing platforms

  • DO NOT USE!! CURRENTLY AWAITING PUBLICATION DATE Saturday magazine Interiors feature - Cowshed

    ‘A nearby farmer took the whole herd’: how a couple turned a cowshed into a dream home for artists

  • Ken Isaacs, Beach Matrix, Westport, Connecticut, 1967

    June design news: forgotten modernist gems, wonky watches and inside Noma’s kitchen

Visual arts

  • 327 questionable art

    Simone Lia: Questionable art – cartoon

  • Gavin Jantjes, Freedom Hunters, 1977.

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

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

    Greenham Common inspires a new generation, designer Enzo Mari gets playful and Perth Museum dedicates its first exhibition to a mythical beast prized since antiquity
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