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Art & design

  • Blue and white striped blazers with carnations in their buttonholes, hanging up

    A backstage pass at the National Theatre – in pictures

  • The artist Mark Leckey in Margate

    On my radar: Mark Leckey’s cultural highlights

    The Turner prize-winning artist on a glorious Italian painting, his favourite horror novel, and why he finally started to like podcasts
  • Ron Arad’s house - London

    House of curiosities: at home with Ron Arad

    Inside the north London house of the man who transformed British design
  • Dog approaching a lamb

    ‘The collie was trying to herd the lamb – but failing’: Mark Aitken’s best phone picture

  • Magalie Lépine Blondeau and Pierre-Yves Cardinal in The Nature of Love.

    From The Nature of Love to Leonora Carrington: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  • Displaced Palestinians leave east Khan Younis

    The week around the world in 20 pictures

  • Barbie: The Exhibition at the Design Museum in London.

    Barbie graces London and the Rokeby Venus heads to Liverpool – the week in art

Reviews

  • Bearing witness to survival and growth … Being a Part of Her Growth, 2002.

    Art and design
    Lonnie Holley review – America’s wreckage made into magical art

  • 1992’s Totally Hair Barbie.

    Art and design
    Barbie: The Exhibition review – the wonder doll’s evolution, from Gehry homes to ‘gay Ken’

  • Red swirling tentacles … split obliteration 2024, Dominique White, from Dominique White: Deadweight at Whitechapel Gallery, London.

    Art and design
    Dominique White: Deadweight review – a beautiful, twisted sea monster

  • Shapeshifts between danger and comfort … How to slip out of your body quietly, 2018.

    Art and design
    Firelei Báez review – bring on the furry ciguapas: magnetic visions of diaspora

Photography

  • Site specific … the screens documenting the builders’ work at madskills: Self-Documenting Construction on Social Media.

    My bricklayer’s gone viral! Why construction workers are the new social media stars

  • Linda in the laundry room, alongside a picture of linens

    ‘We all need a place to hide’: NHS workers take a breather – in pictures

    From wildflower retreats and Novid rooms to locking yourself in a disabled toilet, hospital staff reveal where they go when they need a moment’s peace
  • The Stone Roses backstage at Spike Island, May 1990

    The Stone Roses buzzing at Spike Island: Andy Phillips’ best shot

    ‘The band had just come off stage. I blocked their path, they stopped in their tracks and just started dancing on the spot’

Architecture

  • Roger Walker’s 1973 complex Park Mews in Wellington’s Hataitai district

    ‘I may have reacted too far’: architect Roger Walker on his groundbreaking buildings

  • A platform with stone blocks overlooks the ocean and an overcast sky

    Sydney firm scoops top NSW architecture prize for rebuild of North Head viewing platforms

  • DO NOT USE!! CURRENTLY AWAITING PUBLICATION DATE Saturday magazine Interiors feature - Cowshed

    ‘A nearby farmer took the whole herd’: how a couple turned a cowshed into a dream home for artists

  • Ken Isaacs, Beach Matrix, Westport, Connecticut, 1967

    June design news: forgotten modernist gems, wonky watches and inside Noma’s kitchen

Visual arts

  • 327 questionable art

    Simone Lia: Questionable art – cartoon

  • 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
  • Sharpening the Saws by Oleksandr Bohomazov, 1927.

    Giants of Ukrainian art, Henry Moore goes to war and Chris Ofili’s myth making – the week in art

    A showcase of modernist greats from Malevich to Delaunay, the Yorkshire sculptor’s Blitz drawings and Ofili’s tapestry returns home to Scotland – all in your weekly dispatch
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