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  • Gru in Despicable Me 4.

    From Despicable Me 4 to Kylie in Hyde Park: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  • People stand amid the rubble of Okhmatdyt children’s hospital after a Russian missile attack in Kyiv.

    The week around the world in 20 pictures

    War in Gaza, Russian airstrikes in Kyiv, fires in California and Spain’s Lamine Yamal at Euro 2024: the last seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists
  • fake picassos in mona bathroom

    ‘Childish and unprofessional’: art experts say Mona’s fake-Picasso stunt may undermine gallery’s reputation

    Critics say revelation Kirsha Kaechele created works over three years ago is more prank than performance art, and risks leaving patrons feeling ‘cheated’
  • Detail from Leonora Carrington, Woman with Fox bronze sculpture against a mustard yellow background

    A very British surrealist and the Tories’ legacy in cartoons – the week in art

  • A colourful fluffy coot chick swims in a lake near Rottweil, Germany. The coot chicks bright plumage are a method of survival with parents tending to feed the brighter more vibrant chicks over the less colourful ones

    Week in wildlife – in pictures: a rare blue frog, a cheeky heron and climbing bears

  • Leonora Carrington
Dragon,
1979

    Leonora Carrington: Rebel Visionary review – wild dreams of a titan of surrealism finally get their due

  • An artwork by the British artist Corbin Shaw features a  table setting including ornate cutlery and a plate with a blue floral rim and the slogan 'there's no food in the house'

    Food bank calls for end to subsidised ‘fine dining at meal deal prices’ for MPs

  • Chandelier, After the Storm: Mohammed Sami at Blenheim Palace.

    Art and design
    Mohammed Sami review – phenomenal paintings send depth charges through Churchill’s home

  • Davyd Burliuk, Carousel, 1921

    Art
    In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s review – a small yet blazing act of solidarity

  • 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’

  • A dog named Peggy

    An ugly dog film star and a tapir predicts the Euro 2024 final: photos of the day – Friday

  • Germany Hoepker - Jan 2007<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Carsten Rehder/EPA/Shutterstock (8180184a) Thomas Hoepker Photographer and President of the Agency 'Magnum Photos' Sits Next to One of His Most Famous Pictures Showing Boxer Muhammad Ali in Hamburg Germany Wednesday 10 January 2007 the Museum Fuer Kunst Und Gewerbe (museum For Arts and Crafts) Presents 230 Examples of Hoepker's Work Spanning a Period of Five Decades (1955-2005) Until 18 March 2007 Hoepker is Among the Most Internationally Celebrated German Photographers and Refers to Himself As a 'Picture Maker' Rather Than an Artist Germany Hamburg Germany Hoepker - Jan 2007

    Thomas Hoepker, renowned German photographer, dies at 88

    The photographer was known for defining images of Muhammad Ali, the Berlin Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers in 2001
  • Men in red military uniform and a goat stand to attention

    Desert blooms, Romanian blouses and Mr Afghanistan: photos of the day – Thursday

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • Television images on BFM channel showed a dark plume of smoke rising from the spire.

    Rouen Cathedral fire brought under control in Normandy

  • The spire of the gothic cathedral of the French city of Rouen in Normandy has caught fire during renovation works

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    Rouen’s cathedral spire on fire during renovation work – video

  • The old prefabricated blue structure of St Mary's Church in the village of Cadgwith, Cornwall.

    Cornish ‘tin tabernacle’ church linked to 1907 sea rescue given listed status

  • People look at a memorial wall next to the Grenfell Tower

    Architects asked to design ‘powerful’ memorial to Grenfell Tower victims

  • 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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