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Art & design

  • Families on the beach in front of rows of beach huts

    Shore thing: English beach huts – in pictures

  • Mermaid in Italy … Alison and Thee, St Lawrence River

    ‘I never know what I’ll find’: under the influence of Italy – in pictures

    From extraordinary painters to empty chairs, Regina DeLuise’s evocative photobook The Hands of My Friends emphasises her connection to her motherland
  • People stand in front of the wall painted with Banksy's mountain goat artwork

    Banksy confirms new goat mural in south-west London is his creation

    The street artist’s latest work, on a wall near Kew Bridge, Richmond, depicts the animal teetering on a ledge
  • A red chalk drawing a naked woman in three different poses

    ‘Unique opportunity’ to see Italian Renaissance drawings in London

  • Chernobyl by Pierpaolo Mittica

    ‘With the war in Ukraine, these stories no longer exist’: the final images from inside Chornobyl

  • Painted side-on to conceal an eye lost to jousting … the Duke and Duchess of Urbino by Piero della Francesca, c1475

    ‘One of the most charismatic artists ever’: Piero della Francesca, adored by everyone from Hockney to Heaney

  • Visitors to the newly transformed Jurassic dinosaur gardens at the Natural History Museum.

    A small tourist charge could boost museums’ finances

Reviews

  • Hany Armanious, Mumble, 2023

    Art
    Hany Armanious: Stone Soup review – the quizzical strangeness of the everyday

  • From The British Isles by Jamie Hawkesworth.

    Photography
    Jamie Hawkesworth: The British Isles review – enigmatic vignettes thick with nostalgia

  • Ed Clark, Untitled c.1976. © The Estate of Ed Clark. Courtesy the Estate and Hauser & Wirth.

    Art and design
    Ed Clark review – so ordinary he could almost be British

  • Peter Kennard. The Gamble, 1986 by Peter Kennard.Photomontage, gelatin silver prints and ink on card 83 x 53 x 5.8 cm

    Art
    Peter Kennard: Archive of Dissent review – definitive protest images that go beyond words

Photography

  • Rohingya refugees on their harrowing journey to the camp at Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, 9 October 2017

    The big picture: Paula Bronstein on the plight of Rohingya refugees

  • Side view of a row of mobile homes

    The secret lives of mobile homes – in pictures

    Jethro Marshall’s Jurassic Coast photographs capture the eerie scenes of off-season resorts
  • A black and white photographe of a young girl standing among a series of open-mouthed sculptures and imitating them

    ‘The girl was so much like the sculptures they became a whole’: Yue Yu’s best phone picture

    The Chinese photographer’s image offers a different take on a Beijing artwork

Architecture

  • Louise Southerden's tiny house

    I wanted a tiny house – and a big life. Could I have it all in 25 square metres?

  • Exterior view of Red Hill House and Studio by Zuzana&Nicholas

    A renovated Queenslander with a home office in a former laundry wins Houses awards top prize

  • Angela Rayner in a hi-vis jacket standing with arms outstretched, smiling at the camera, as people stand in hi-vis and hard hats behind her

    Labour’s ‘grey belt’ plans could result in isolated communities, warns leading architect

  • Interior of La Ermita de la Virgen del Mirón de Soria, with bright white ceiling and walls contrasting with orange decorative features

    Botched Spanish church makeover leaves cherubim looking startled

Visual arts

  • From left: Leonid Marushchak, Yevhen Sternichuk and Marharita Kravchenko.

    Ukraine’s death-defying art rescuers

  • Leonid Marushchak with an art work by Ukrainian ceramicist Nina Fedorova, from his personal collection.

    Ukraine’s art evacuators: the intrepid team rescuing art from a warzone – in pictures

    After Russia’s invasion in 2022, historian Leonid Marushchak saw that Ukraine’s cultural heritage was under threat too. So he vowed to get to these irreplaceable works before Putin’s forces could
  • Words, words, words … a gallerygoer considers Rajasthan (Wall Painting), 2012, by Bridget Riley.

    Five of the best novels about art

    Rachel Cusk, Raven Leilani and Hari Kunzru are among writers inspired by artists to find shape and form in their own works
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