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Art & design

  • Home to 200 people and just one shop … Grace runs free on Jura.

    A joyful moment on the isle of Jura: Hannah Maule-ffinch’s best photograph

  • A child and three women, two of whom are holding placards, in front of doorway. A placard against a wall reads Birth Control Fair Today

    Direct action! Buy a print from the Jane Bown archive

    A new gallery looks back at some of the strike action covered by the late Observer photographer Jane Bown over the last 60 years
  • ‘The start of a friendship’ … Nine year old Lyric in Arizona

    ‘I smile to keep from crying’: Americans without homes – in pictures

    Photographer Tony Dočekal spent six years speaking to those on society’s margins. She heard tales of robbery, rejection and survival
  • A mournful, heart-stopping soundscape … Steve McQueen, Bass, Dia Beacon, New York

    The best art and architecture of 2024

  • Two stone tombs in a churchyard

    Tintin and the terrific tomb: Essex heritage listing is thrill for Hergé fans

  • Black and white photo of Alfred Flechtheim in 1928 standing with paintings around him; he is well-dressed and stylish in a tailored tweed suit and tie, and has slicked-back dark hair. He poses with his face in profile and hands on his hips

    ‘I am hitting a wall’: heir of Jewish art collector calls for restitution from Germany

  • Installation view of Hamad Butt: Apprehensions at IMMA.

    Hamad Butt review – the truncated brilliance of the most dangerous YBA

Reviews

  • Part of Madame du Coudray’s Machine for teaching midwifery.

    Art and design
    Versailles: Science and Splendour review – blazing breakthroughs from stuffed rhinos to anal ops

  • Pleading, 1984 by Jeff Wall. (detail)

    Photography
    The week in art: Jeff Wall: Life in Pictures; Katrina Palmer: The Touch Report – review

  • Khandakar Ohida, Dream Your Museum, 2022, video, courtesy of the artist

    Art and design
    Jameel prize 2024 review – tradition, trinkets and a telephone of rocks

  • Jasleen Kaur's Ford Escort

    Art and design
    Turner Prize: Jasleen Kaur’s winning, welcoming ode to Glasgow

Photography

  • Art as therapy … images from the triptych I Wish, I Am, I Will Be, 2009

    Subversive, sensual and shocking: Erwin Olaf’s larger than life portraits – in pictures

  • Nine-year-old Lyric at El Pais sat in front of a plate of beans

    The big picture: Tony Dočekal explores community and freedom in the US west

    The Dutch photographer’s shot of a nine-year-old girl from a motorhome site in Arizona is part of a series that calls into question the appetite for material wealth
  • Men in combat uniform stand next to a burning tomb in a mausoleum

    The week around the world in 20 pictures

    The fall of Assad in Syria, protests in Georgia, the Franklin Fire in Malibu and the reopening of Notre Dame in Paris: the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists

Architecture

  • Monument Valley 3 screenshot.

    ‘People should feel there’s more than doom and gloom’: Monument Valley 3’s environmentalist hope-punk

  • Design

    Design highlights 2024: ‘This is sorcery level craft!’

  • Axelle Ponsonnet - Notre Dame drawings

    ‘It was so fragile, we weren’t certain it wouldn’t collapse’: the architect who sketched Notre Dame’s ancient insides

  • Open house: the iron-framed windows and balcony that inspired the design of the apartment.

    Finding beauty in Brutalism: a flat in Milan provides a haven for creativity

Visual arts

  • A Highland Landscape by John Knox at Romance to Realities at the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle.

    A Renaissance pooch, pop art hammers and sublime northern landscapes – the week in art

  • Nicolas Party, Landscape, 2022.

    Surreal landscapes, psychedelic techno visions and pop art fairground rides – the week in art

    Pre-internet computer creations get rebooted at Tate Modern, Graham MacIndoe documents his drug use, and a Keith Haring carousel is on show in New York
  • A member of the conservation team works on the rhinoceros given to Louis XV for Versailles: Science and Splendour at the Science Museum, London.

    A French revolution in science, Japanese art remixed and Everest re-ascended – the week in art

    A blockbuster show of Versailles’ experiments, Takashi Murakami’s cheeky spin on classic paintings and Mallory and Irvine remembered – all in your weekly dispatch
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