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Art & design

  • a man in a hat sitting down

    ‘Baltimore has the worst PR of any city in America’: a culture critic on his home town, race, police and art

    Lawrence Burney’s new book, No Sense in Wishing, comes at a time when the US is facing a crackdown on cities, art, culture and education
  • Cropped image of René Magritte’s La Magie Noire

    René Magritte’s ‘superstar of surrealism’ to go on sale in Paris

  • V&A East Storehouse. Entrance and signage within the larger frontage of the Here East building in London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

    ‘Like time-travelling’: readers tell of unexpected joys of V&A East Storehouse

  • Back of a dog's head, ears sticking up as it looks at a black cat in a shop window across the street

    ‘I have no doubt this cat could take him down!’: Dorothy O’Donnell’s best phone picture

  • GOSI - Frankenstein

    From the BFI London film festival to Taylor Swift: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

  • Residents leave an area targeted by Israeli forces in Gaza City

    The week around the world in 20 pictures

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  • The opera singer Irmgard Seefried performing in Vienna Opera House in 1945

    Tate Britain’s Lee Miller exhibition is hardly ‘overdue’

Reviews

  1. Exuding eerie beauty … detail of Head of a Princess.

    Art and design
    Made in Ancient Egypt review: a two-day Pyramid bender and the BC Leonardo

  2. Virgil Abloh: The Codes at the Grand Palais in Paris.

    Art and design
    Virgil Abloh: The Codes review – archive show sews up status as his generation’s leading designer

  3. Never boring … Lee Miller’s David E Scherman Dressed for War, London, 1942.

    Lee Miller
    Lee Miller review – a dazzling, daring career from war photographer to surrealist pioneer via Hitler’s bathtub

  4. 'The Delusion' art installation at Serpentine Northepa12414349 Gallery assistants pose with a video game commission and multiplayer immersive experience titled 'The Delusion' by Berlin-based British artist Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley during a photocall at Serpentine North Gallery in London, Britain, 29 September 2025. The series of video games explores themes of polarisation, censorship, and social connection and will run from 30 September 2025 to 18 January 2026 at Serpentine North Gallery. EPA/TOLGA AKMEN

    Art
    Do people really go to galleries to answer stupid questions? Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley review

Photography

  • Overall Winner and Winner: Nightscapes. Crown of Light

    Supernovas, satellites and solar sprites: 2025 David Malin astrophotography awards – in pictures

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  • Gilbert & George FUNKY 2020 302 x 444 cm | 118 7/8 x 174 13/16 in. © Gilbert & George Courtesy White Cube

    Gilbert & George, the wonders of ancient Egypt and Marina Abramović’s erotic epic – the week in art

  • Teenage boys football team in the dressing room, Colebrook Royals Football Club in Chigwell.

    Which one of these young footballers do you identify with? Amit Lennon’s best photograph

  • Bronze Award: Birds in the Environment Triumphant Arrival. King Penguins in the Falkland Islands.

    From the Swiss Alps to a solar eclipse: the 2025 Bird Photographer of the Year – in pictures

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Architecture

  1. a pyramid surrounded by plants

    From a Utah church to a Denver museum: the man who found 75 pyramids in the US

  2. A view of the Trellick Tower block of flats

    Thumping ambition – and demolition: 10 high-rises that changed modern Britain

  3. Terry Farrell deathFile photo dated 12/04/09 of a general view of the Secret Intelligence Service building, known as MI6 in Vauxhall, London. The "non-conformist" architect who designed the MI6 building, Sir Terry Farrell, has died aged 87. Issue date: Monday September 29, 2025. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Tim Ireland/PA Wire

    Sir Terry Farrell obituary

  4. Guangzhou South Station

    ‘His buildings were always ready for their closeup’: how Terry Farrell’s postmodern exuberance conquered the world

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

  • Carabinieri officers hold one of the 21 artworks, which appears to be a engraving: other pictures in frames are arranged behind them in a room in a palazzo with paintings of classical-style scenes on the walls. One officer wears a dark blue vest with Carabinieri on it over casual clothes while the other has a black cap, jacket, and trousers with a red stripe down the side.

    Italy art police seize 21 suspected fake works from Salvador Dalí show

  • Crystal Palace fa cup winners banner lifted ahead of kick off during the Premier League match Crystal Palace vs Nottingham Forest at Selhurst Park, London, United Kingdom, 24th August 2025 (Photo by Harvey Murphy/News Images)3CFTT7A Crystal Palace fa cup winners banner lifted ahead of kick off during the Premier League match Crystal Palace vs Nottingham Forest at Selhurst Park, London, United Kingdom, 24th August 2025 (Photo by Harvey Murphy/News Images)

    ‘Unbeatable unity’: the Holmesdale Fanatics on art and activism at Crystal Palace

  • Southeby's worker holding an Andy Warhol self-portrait over their face

    Sotheby’s losses more than double to $248m as art market slumps

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