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  • A Working Man.

    From A Working Man to Lucy Dacus: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  • Mark-Pawson in his Hackney studios

    Mark Pawson obituary

    Other lives: Artist and maker of collectible badges, posters and stickers whose work found homes in the Tate and V&A library collections
  • Police officers use pepper spray on a demonstrator wearing a long dress and a tall headpiece. Beside them other police officers are wearing helmets and holding up shields

    The week around the world in 20 pictures

    Protests in Istanbul, Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, wildfires in Uiseong and wild horses in Galicia: the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists
  • Peter Sedgley (1930-2025)
Constellation 
1982

    Peter Sedgley obituary

  • a drawing

    Drawing bought by Pennsylvania woman for $12 could be by Renoir

  • Giuseppe Penone’s Respirare l’ombra (To Breathe the Shadow), 1999.

    Towering trunks, disturbing dolls and deep-sea daydreams – the week in art

  • Weird world … a detail of Lazarus, from 2020.

    Rafał Zajko: The Spin Off – fantastical sci-fi visions with a side order of pickles

  • Rescue me … Pamela Anderson’s famous one-piece features in the exhibition.

    Design
    Pammy’s Baywatch showstopper, exploding bikinis and Nasa’s banned recordbreaker – Splash! review

  • Sounding the alarm … Rose Finn-Kelcey’s Here Is a Gale Warning.

    Art and design
    Here Is a Gale Warning review – five tumultuous decades of catastrophic art

  • Heaven's Gate at Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur at The Wallace Collection, London.

    Grayson Perry
    Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur review – pomposity puncturing gets lost in personae

  • José María Velasco’s Rocks on the Hill of Atzacoalco, 1874.

    Art and design
    José María Velasco review – proudly dull Mexican was wasted in wonderland

  • ‘Massive and dangerous’ … the storm-chaser in Oklahoma.

    A storm-chaser beneath ferocious rotating clouds: Richard Sharum’s best photograph

  • Fidel Castro and Erich Honecker Leuna, 1972

    Cold war chronicler: Thomas Billhardt’s East Germany – in pictures

    The photojournalist, who died in January, captured daily life in East Germany as well as Castro and Gorbachev’s visits, the fall of the Berlin Wall and life in Vietnam during the war
  • La salle de classe 1 by Hicham Benohoud for my best shot

    Leave those kids alone! Teaching through play – in pictures

    Arts teacher and photographer Hicham Benohoud encouraged students to engage playfully with identity in postcolonial Morocco, for a project called The Classroom
  • Spires of temples visible over treetops with mountains in the background

    Fears for Bagan’s towering Buddhist temples after Myanmar earthquake

  • Marble heights … Annabelle Selldorf’s luxurious new stairway leading up from the entrance.

    ‘No more velvet rope’: how New York’s beloved Frick museum opened up – and will now even sell coffee

  • Plumes of smoke, dust and debris rise from falling tower blocks during a demolition

    The battle for Glasgow’s Wyndford estate – photo essay

  • The square and colonnade of trade school Nimeto, Utrecht, redesigned by Maarten van Kesteren Architects.

    ‘A place you remember for the rest of your life’: why Dutch architects are giving new life to old schools

  • 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

  • illustration referencing Munch's The Scream

    The big idea: should we abolish art?

    Down with expensive trophies at art fairs: it’s time to reclaim a more radical vision of creativity
  • Flávio de Carvalho wearing the New Look-suit and walking on the streets of São Paulo, Experiência n. 3, 1956,

    ‘Abnormal art is the only good art’: how Flávio de Carvalho sparked a Brazilian revolution

    He donned a skirt to shock his conservative countrymen – and got bundled into a police station for his own protection. As his work appears in the RA’s Brasil! Brasil! show, we celebrate a luminary of modernism
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