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Art & design

  • A member of staff uses an umbrella during the Paris Olympics opening ceremony

    Even in the rain, Paris je t’aime

  • Max Ernst: The Fireside Angel (The Triumph of Surrealism)

    Paris exhibition celebrates global spread of surrealism

    Pompidou Centre show will move on to Madrid, Hamburg and Philadelphia, changing from city to city
  • A marble bust of Costanza Piccolomini

    Slashed with a knife: the tender sculpture that hides a shocking but common crime against women

    Costanza Piccolomini was physically disfigured by her lover, the Baroque sculptor Bernini: 400 years later her story can finally be told
  • a woman stands in her garden in ukraine, a new roof on her small bombed house

    Who’s on the 2024 RA Dorfman prize shortlist? A lingerie factory turned weekend home, Ukrainian volunteer roofers – and more

  • a man's face behind a mask that says 'in conversation with the cosmos'

    ‘The marginal artist par excellence’: the pain, politics and playfulness of David Medalla

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

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

  • 336 Favour

    Simone Lia: Favour – cartoon

Reviews

  • Peter Kennard. Thatcher Unmasked 1986 Photomontage

    Art
    Peter Kennard: Archive of Dissent review – electrifying visual shocks

  • Brushes with greatness … Oscar Murillo’s The Flooded Garden at Tate Modern in London.

    Art and design
    Oscar Murillo: The Flooded Garden review – my inner Pollock could not be contained

  • The Runners, c1924 by Robert Delaunay.

    Art
    Paris 1924: Sport, Art and the Body review – an Olympic revelation from first to last

  • Soft touch … the Ford Escort clad in swirly carpet.

    Art and design
    Come As You Really Are review – Heaven is a Ford Escort clad in swirly carpet!

Photography

  • A young girl and a man doing handstands against a wall

    The big picture: precarious lives and playfulness in a London square

  • Observer Archive Cover 05 12 76 Live Parrisienne

    A celebration of the genius of the early photographer Nadar, 1976

    The pioneering portrait master was a superb chronicler of 19th-century Parisian life
  • Uppal Bhupa Village, Jalandhar District, Punjab, 2015

    Up on the roof: the homespun art of rural Punjab – in pictures

    Photographer Rajesh Vora has documented the grandiose sculptures that adorn the tops of buildings in north-west India

Architecture

  • Rowan Moore

    Historic British seaside hotels are glorious white elephants, but perhaps they can have new lives

    Rowan Moore
  • Audience waiting for lunchtime concert in an open air area of the hotel, with the coast visible behind

    Faded no more: the return of British seaside resorts’ grand hotels

  • The Crespin and Dufayel department store.

    Paris’s department stores transformed urban life. What can they teach today’s struggling shops?

  • 003 Gladstone Pottery Museum B 0023 JOD

    Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England: Staffordshire review – the final word on the nation’s finest buildings

Visual arts

  • 327 questionable art

    Simone Lia: Questionable art – cartoon

  • The Carving Out Truths display inside the Walker Art gallery in Liverpool.

    How race influences our perception of art

    Letter: Dr Tobiasz Trawinski responds to an article on the decolonisation of sculptures in a Liverpool art gallery
  • 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
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