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Art & design

  • Turbulent sexuality … The Wood Sawyers by Jean-Francois Millet.

    Millet: Life on the Land review – phallic forks and suggestive wheelbarrows enliven a landscape of toil

    There’s a undeniably erotic charge to Millet’s paintings of gloomy hard work – reminding us that, behind the hoes, these are real people with real desires
  • A woman with her eyes closed

    Man Ray and Max Dupain surrealism – in pictures

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  • Leicester Forest East by Kate Jackson.

    ‘Flyovers can be incredibly beautiful!’ Long Blondes singer Kate Jackson’s new career as a motorway artist

  • artwork of people raising hands

    ‘Constantly being reimagined’: celebrating American art from the 1900s to the 1980s

  • ‘Emotional turbulence’ … Senesence from the book Mythoscape

    Spot the human! Bodies embedded in nature – in pictures

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  • Peter Bech with big mermaid

    Denmark to remove ‘pornographic’ mermaid statue, reports say

  • colours ambigram

    Did you solve it? Ambigrams – you won’t believe these flipping words!

Reviews

  1. Heavy Snowfall on House (1995) by Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood.

    Art
    ‘A succession of bad paintings’: Stanley Donwood and Radiohead’s Thom Yorke – review

  2. Andy Goldsworthy, Edges made by finding leaves the same size. Tearing one in two. Spitting underneath and pressing flat on to another. Brough, Cumbria. Cherry patch. 4 November 1984.

    Art and design
    Andy Goldsworthy: Fifty Years review – a wild walk between life, death and sheep-shearing

  3. Laure Prouvost’s Folkestone Triennial commission.

    Folkestone Triennial
    Mutant seabirds, sewer secrets and a lick of art ice-cream: Folkestone Triennial review

  4. Dendrophiles by Jane and Louise Wilson.

    Art and design
    Sculpture in the City/Bloomberg Space review – folk horror bubbles up under towering icons of cash

Photography

  • A couple and their dog in a dug-up back yard

    Famous faces: Australia’s Martin Kantor portrait prize finalists – in pictures

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  • Ukrainian servicemen fire an anti-aircraft auto-cannon towards a Russian drone from a sunflower field near Pavlograd.

    The week around the world in 20 pictures

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  • He was part of my dream, of course-but then I was part of his dream, too by Linder Sterling, 2025.

    Deller’s Welsh visions, rollicking Rubens and an Edinburgh extravaganza – the week in art

  • Young drovers rest against truck beside road

    Guardian Australia’s Carly Earl wins top award in 2025 Australian Life photography competition

Architecture

  1. President Donald Trump walks backdropped by wind turbines during an opening ceremony for the Trump International Golf Links golf course, near Aberdeen.

    To compare Donald Trump to Teddy Roosevelt on nature protection is absurd

  2. New build housing development, Crewe Green, Cheshire

    It’s not just about building houses – communities need infrastructure to grow

  3. Wide exterior shot of the front of Australia's house of the year Blok Three Sisters

    Australia’s house of the year goes to a prefab beach shack trio on Stradbroke Island

  4. Simon Jenkins

    He may talk rubbish but Trump has an eye for beauty, and that is a breath of fresh air

    Simon Jenkins

Visual arts

  • BGIAS Charlotte Chapter Meetup in collaboration with curator Yvonne Bynoe at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, (photographer unknown), 2024.

    ‘Art can be a release’: how Black Girls in Art Spaces is bridging cultural gaps

  • Ntang Dreaming by Emily Kam Kngwarray, 1989.

    Aussie dots, Tudor pots and nudist shots – the week in art

  • Did these feet? … a work at Folkestone Triennial by Dorothy Cross.

    Alien landscapes, Arctic artists and pioneers of pleasure – the week in art

  • Back view portrait of a female artist holding brushes standing next to easel in art studio, copy space

    A dustpan and brush with fine art

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