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Art and design

29 July 2024

  • Amy Sherald’s For love, and for country, 2022.

    The great women's art bulletin
    Hello sailors: what these two kissing seamen can tell us about Kamala Harris’s White House bid

    With this luminous painting, Amy Sherald sought to ‘uncensor’ a passionate act that should only ever have been regarded as normal. It came to mind as I watched Harris setting her sights on the presidency

28 July 2024

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

    Brief letters
    Even in the rain, Paris je t’aime

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

    Paris exhibition celebrates global spread of surrealism

  • A marble bust of Costanza Piccolomini

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

  • 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

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

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

  • The Simone Lia cartoon
    Simone Lia: Favour – cartoon

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

  • From the Observer archive
    A celebration of the genius of the early photographer Nadar, 1976

27 July 2024

  • Rowan Moore

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

    Rowan Moore
    Giant structures in an array of far-fetched architectural styles rose with coming of railways and declined with popularity of air travel, writes Rowan Moore
  • 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

    • In the picture: a vibrant art-filled home in Chicago

    • Smart shot
      ‘A day at the beach is such a universal pastime’: Mariel and Katherine Tyler’s best phone picture

    • Going out, staying in
      From Deadpool & Wolverine to Ice Spice: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

26 July 2024

  • ‘Under the sea' by Ella Lee Fowler age 6, winner 5–8 years ”I painted my best friend Avelyn because she is so nice. I think Avelyn would like to go under the water in the Kuromi helmet, to swim with the piranha and the queenfish.”

    Young Archibald prize 2024: Australia’s award for child artists – in pictures

    Running alongside the Archibald prize, the Young Archie competition invites artists from five to 18 years old to submit a portrait of someone who is special to them and plays a significant role in their life. Over 4000 entries were received this year – a new record – and all 70 finalists are on show at the Art Gallery of NSW until 8 September
  • Caroline Marks's hand passes through a blue wave as it breaks over her

    Twenty photographs of the week
    The week around the world in 20 pictures

    Wildfires in California, Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington, Israeli bombardment in Gaza, and Snoop Dogg at the Paris Olympics: the last seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists

    • Sir Kenneth Grange obituary

    • Art Weekly newsletter
      Mind-altering montage, Taylor Swift’s costume crawl and Constable goes west – the week in art

    • Memories of the 1924 Paris Olympics opening ceremony – in pictures

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