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  • a group of men holding signs saying 'I am a man' and 'union justice now'

    Protests, picket lines and Indigenous pride: examining US democracy – in pictures

    Partly inspired by the poem In This Place (An American Lyric) by Amanda Gorman, FotoFocus, a non-profit, has opened its inaugural exhibition at the new FotoFocus Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. Titled Big Tent, the show is on view until 22 August 2026 and presents the work of more than 50 artists. The work created by each photographer reflects on the present state of US democracy and demonstrates the power of the image
    Gallery17
  • Georg Baselitz: Back Again, at White Cube Bermondsey, London.

    Georg Baselitz review – a final, furious, chaotic reckoning with death

    A body falls through the sky, figures flail and thrash, while sagging skin and brittle limbs are scrawled on every work. This is the German painter’s last collection – and it’s both brutal and beautiful
  • mannequin figures playing instruments behind screen at museum exhibition

    ‘Central to human identity’: exhibition at the Met connects bodies with musical instruments

    Musical Bodies looks at 4,000 years of musical history and how humans have long forged relationships with instruments
  • Stop-motion animation figures of American football players

    Artists are making ‘anti-slop’ to rebel against AI: ‘It’s been rammed down our throats’

    In response to AI’s hyperrealism, artists and creatives are gravitating toward the homespun and imperfect
  • A grid of colorful squares in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple creates an abstract mosaic pattern

    Julio Le Parc review – as if Bridget Riley had opened a riotous funfair

    The late artist found his calling in febrile 1960s Paris and this exhibition is imbued with an anarchist spirit – you can even spin the paintings!
  • Blonde boy sitting at a kitchen table, playing with colorful modelling clay.

    Young at art
    ‘I make casts of their feet!’ Rachel Whiteread, Michael Armitage and more on how they get their kids into art

    You could let them make a mess in your kitchen, take them to the safari park to draw animals – and if all else fails there’s always bribes! We speak to leading artists about making childcare creative
  • Ruth Artmonsky at home in Covent Garden, London, in 2016.

    Other lives
    Ruth Artmonsky obituary

    Other lives: Co-founder of the psychometric testing consultancy SHL who went to write books about art and design
  • Isabelle 'Izzy' Bricknall

    Other lives
    Isabelle Bricknall obituary

    Other lives: Artist, fashion designer and model who worked with the punk illustrator Jo Brocklehurst and designer Zandra Rhodes
  • Mildred Howard, Untitled, 1979. Xerox collage.

    Mildred Howard on her first retrospective in a major museum: ‘My art is part of who I am as a person’

    The octogenarian artist has recently seen her star rise within the art world – now the Oakland Museum of California will exhibit works from her 50-year career
  • Nadia Khomami

    double quotation markHey! You in the stalls! Put that phone away and surrender to the art

    Nadia Khomami
    As Rosamund Pike found out recently on stage, many people now experience the arts simply as content to be documented for likes and shares, says Guardian arts and culture correspondent Nadia Khomami
  • A young boy wearing blue tracksuit bottoms and and a blue and white top kicks a football while another, younger, boy wearing black tracksuit bottoms and a green and red top walks a few paces behind him, in front of a large building, the top half of which is painted light-brown and the bottom half yellow

    Smart shot
    ‘A soccer ball can bring great joy to two little kids’: Kuanglong Zhang’s best phone picture

    The carefree scene in the ancient Chinese city of Kashgar prompted the photographer to reflect of his own sources of happiness
  • A muscled man with a sword in a red tunnel

    Going out, staying in
    From Masters of the Universe to Monteverdi: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

    The cartoon favourite and Mattel toy He-Man battles Skeletor on the big screen, and Garsington continues its run of excellent early operas
  • Sequence, 2026, by Terry Winters.

    Terry Winters review – flashes of magic in patterns science has yet to explain

    Modern Art, London
    The mathematically named new works of Along the River are disorienting, illusive and seem to offer a flash of the secret sequences that underpin the physical world
  • Interior of a room in the National Gallery in London.

    The secret to enjoying an art gallery? Less is more

    Letters: Readers respond to an article in which Isabel Brooks described feeling overwhelmed by the number of artworks on display

    • Simeon Barclay review – shut out by the gates of a drab modern Britain

    • Art Weekly newsletter
      Mind-melting MC Escher, mesmerising Marilyn and the greatness of Glasgow – the week in art

    • ‘They are disturbing the dead’: reconstructing the site of the forgotten first genocide of the 20th century

  • detail of Relativity, 1953, by MC Escher. Figures walk up and down flights of stairs set in a triangle, but the perspective of what is up and what is down is constantly shifting

    MC Escher review – hallucinatory insights from the master of the mind-bending staircase

    Escher’s paradoxical geometries and impossible gravities may baffle the mind – yet even his wildest works were never just fanciful, as this fun and gripping show makes clear
  • Woman sitting on orange leather chair, through fragmented pieces of mirror

    Lesbian rebels, exotic dancing and domesticity: New York’s Upstate Photography Biennial – in pictures

    The Center for Photography at Woodstock (in Kingston, New York) recently opened the first-ever New York Upstate Photography Biennial, featuring the work of 39 artists who live and work across the Hudson valley and beyond. The show, co-curated by Marina Chao and Adam Giles Ryan, highlights the diverse work of photographers in the upstate region. Their images will be on view until 6 September 2026
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  • Zoë Urness’s No More Stolen Sisters

    ‘We have a shared sky and stars’: the Indigenous American artists challenging our relationship to the natural world

    As the largest display of Native North American art ever seen in Britain arrives in Yorkshire, its artists are asking timely questions about their history, our planet, and humanity’s place within it
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