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Art & design

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

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

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    Simone Lia: Election day – cartoon

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

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

    Kircher’s seemingly innocent shot of his father’s girlfriend having her hair dyed in an Istanbul salon belies the truth about the couple’s reason for visiting
  • Fans watching the Last Dinner Party at Other stage.

    Coldplay, Cyndi Lauper and the Red Arrows: Saturday at Glastonbury 2024 – a photo essay

  • WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrives in Canberra<br>WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange kisses his wife Stella Assange as he arrives in Canberra, Australia, June 26, 2024. REUTERS/Edgar Su

    Australia’s best photos of the month – June 2024

  • Oatcake shopfrontsof the Staffordshire Potteries photographed by David Fletcher.

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

  • Simon McBurney

    On my radar: Simon McBurney’s cultural highlights

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?

  • Little Angel (Angelita), Sonoran Desert, Mexico 1979

    Photography
    Graciela Iturbide review – death-soaked genius from a Mexican master

  • Installation view of Tavares Strachan There Is Light Somewhere. Intergalactic Palace, 2024, and Ruin of a Giant (King Tubby), 2024. Photo Mark Blower.

    Installation
    Tavares Strachan: There Is Light Somewhere; Megan Rooney: Echoes and Hours – review

Photography

  • Lily Allen and Miquita Oliver photographed in London for the Observer New Review by Perou, June 2024.

    Original Observer Photography

  • Police officers and security personnel take positions outside the Kenyan parliament during a nationwide protest against the finance bill

    The week around the world in 20 pictures

    War in Gaza, a failed coup in Bolivia, protests in Nairobi and Taylor Swift at Wembley: the last seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists
  • Sharpening the Saws by Oleksandr Bohomazov, 1927.

    Giants of Ukrainian art, Henry Moore goes to war and Chris Ofili’s myth making – the week in art

    A showcase of modernist greats from Malevich to Delaunay, the Yorkshire sculptor’s Blitz drawings and Ofili’s tapestry returns home to Scotland – all in your weekly dispatch

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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