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  • Mohammad Barrangi stands in a gallery showing his work. He is looking off to the side of the camera.

    Iranian artist opens Leeds show exploring disability and migration

  • A drone’s eye view of the northern section of the redeveloped King’s Cross site, 2023.

    ‘Nervous of its own boldness’: the (almost) radical rebirth of King’s Cross

    The two-decade transformation of the industrial site north of King’s Cross station in London, once notorious, now a pleasant enclave of offices, homes, shops, bars and boulevards, is essentially complete. It’s a huge success – and yet is there something missing?
  • Peggy Guggenheim with her Lhasa Apsos terriers.Palazzo Venier dei Leoni; Venice, 1973 Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Venice, Photo Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche, Gift, Cassa di Risparmio di Venezia, 2005

    ‘She was trying to find herself’: the untold story of Peggy Guggenheim, Hampshire homemaker

    A new exhibition shows another side of Peggy Guggenheim – the five years she spent in Hampshire and Sussex giving the ordinary life her best shot
  • Two totally burnt out cars, one upside down, illuminatewd with orange light, form part of an exhibit

    ‘We are showing the world what people do’: grim relics of Hamas attack go on display in New York

  • Gabriele Münter, Listening (Portrait of Jawlensky), 1909. detail

    Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and the Blue Rider review – bringers of joy

  • 323 Busy

    Simone Lia: Busy – cartoon

  • Robert Morat Galerie: Robert Morat Galerie is pleased to present works by British artist Lydia Goldblatt at Photo London 2024. Goldblatt considers themes of origins, transience and emotional experience through a lyrical harnessing of photography’s primary characteristics of light, time and surface. Her quietly powerful and beautifully crafted prints creatively fuse documentary and constructed photography approaches. Tenderly observed portraits and details of the human form are combined with enigmatic still lifes and abstract constructions suggestive of elemental forces.

    The big picture: Lydia Goldblatt’s reflection on family and absence

Reviews

  • Wassily Kandinsky, Improvisation Deluge, 1913. Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus

    Art
    Expressionists review – the vivid premonitions of Europe’s wildest-eyed geniuses

  • Exterior view of the space in which to place me (Jeffrey Gibson’s exhibition for the United States Pavilion, 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia), April 20 – November 24, 2024. Forecourt sculpture: the space in which to place me (2024).

    Venice Biennale 2024
    Armed guards, reparations and the lives of others: Venice Biennale 2024 – review

  • Voices from the ether come and go … John Akomfrah’s British pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

    Venice Biennale
    John Akomfrah’s British pavilion at Venice Biennale review – a magnificent and awful journey

  • Hypnotic and cinematic … The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula, 1610, with a cameo by Caravaggio who is pictured behind Ursula.

    Art and design
    The Last Caravaggio review – a gripping and murderously dark finale

Photography

  • Marcia Hines performs with her band at Melbourne University in 1977

    A look into Melbourne’s live music scene over 50 years – in pictures

  • birds on a telegraph wire in Three images by Diana Matar of locations where people have died in encounters with police - one in Texas and two in New Mexico

    ‘These people matter’: why Diana Matar photographs the sites where US police have killed civilians

    The celebrated US photographer’s new series is a quietly devastating commemoration and a critique of modern American culture
  • LL Cool J

    Uncropped: James Hamilton on the decay of alt-journalism and street photography

    In the Wes Anderson-produced documentary Uncropped, the acclaimed culture photographer discusses his career and a changing landscape

Architecture

  • ‘A changeable system’… the Study Pavilion at the Technical University of Braunschweig, designed by Berlin based Architects Gustav Düsing & Max Hacke.

    ‘It should feel like an extension of the living room’: radical study centre is named best building in Europe

  • black and white photo of a big building with word hippodrome on sign

    Lost New York: remembering the city’s forgotten landmarks

  • Dandelions in a meadow against a clear blue sky.

    Clock this delightful paean to dandelions

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Why are celebrities destroying multimillion dollar mansions?

    Arwa Mahdawi

Visual arts

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

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

  • Caravaggio’s The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula, 1610.

    Death-defying darkness, thought-provoking pop art and unrepentant nudes – the week in art

    Caravaggio proves haunting, Yinka Shonibare brings colonial figures down to size and Monica Sjöö photographs the goddess feminism – all in your weekly dispatch
  • Gallery assistants pose with a participatory installation entitled Add Colour (Refugee Boat) during the press preview of Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind exhibition at Tate Modern in London on 13 February 2024.

    Let’s tell the story of art without men

    Letters: Dr Suzy Tutchell champions the work of past and present female artists, while Caroline Higgitt takes Francesco Vezzoli’s challenge
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