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  • Prescient … Corita Kent, Stop the Bombing, 1967.

    ‘There is a bullet in my brain’: the searing art of Hollywood nun Sister Mary Corita

  • illustrations for website Heatwave Toolbox

    August design news: puppets, a moveable monument and how to combat a heatwave

    Dundee design festival, fashion using sustainable textiles and cars that should exist
  • Urns on display at Poetic Endings funeral directors in south-east London

    Bauhaus urns and Scrabble-themed coffins: UK embraces new funeral trends

    Shift reflects change in how people are talking and thinking about death amid climate crisis and increasing secularism
  • Two pages depicting the fire scene from the Lord of the Flies graphic novel.

    Lord of the Flies at 70: how a classic was reimagined as a graphic novel

  • A detail from Simeon Solomon’s A Saint of the Eastern Church, showing a man with a halo inside a church

    Want to smell the pre-Raphaelites? UK gallery to use scent alongside paintings

  • ‘Modest resilience next to powerful natural forces’: Grödians housing development, by Richard Gibson and his practice, on the outskirts of Lerwick. Photograph by 
Mark Sinclair/née gibson architects

    Gimme shelter… how social housing in stormy Shetland was transformed by a modernist fleeing 60s London

  • 7. Community, childcare, housing Franki Raffles

    Franki Raffles: Photography, Activism, Campaign Works; Hannah Perry: Manual Labour – review

  • ‘Coins, no matter how functional, start as works of art’: gold aureus, left, of Nero (54-68). Right: Edward VIII bust by Humphrey Paget for gold pattern for £5, £2 and sovereign, awaiting final approval, 1936, shortly before the king’s abdication.Right: Humphrey Paget (1893-1974)
Bust of Edward VIII for gold pattern for £5, £2 and sovereign, 1937

    Art and design
    Money Talks: Art, Society and Power review – a vivid, revelatory look at two sides of the same coin

  • Woman’s Cloth, 2001 by El Anatsui (detail), above, made of metal bottle caps and tags held together with copper wire.

    Art
    Edinburgh art festival 2024 review – from pure joy to war-torn desolation

  • Hany Armanious, Mumble, 2023

    Art
    Hany Armanious: Stone Soup review – the quizzical strangeness of the everyday

  • From The British Isles by Jamie Hawkesworth.

    Photography
    Jamie Hawkesworth: The British Isles review – enigmatic vignettes thick with nostalgia

  • A civilian rides past a destroyed vehicle outside Kupiansk, which was liberated from Russian occupation by Ukrainian forces two months earlier, 12 November 2022.

    The big picture: Byron Smith finds everyday defiance in war-ravaged Ukraine

  • Nicole Chui in a number 9 shirt, challenging another player for the ball

    Fever stitch: embroidered photographs of the beautiful game – in pictures

    It’s not just the through balls that are beautifully threaded in this celebration of the joy of a match in the park
  • A woman sits in a bus during an evacuation from Pokrovsk due to the advance of Russian troops.

    The week around the world in 20 pictures

    Ukraine’s offensive in Russia, Israeli bombardment in Gaza, the Democratic National Convention and wildfires in Turkey: the last seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists
  • A person with a dog walks past a modernist facade

    ‘Out of this world’: free app will offer tour of modernist Manchester

  • Come on in, the water’s lovely … Sandkaj harbour bath is one of several architect-designed options for public swimming in Copenhagen, and the water quality is monitored on a dedicated app.

    Splashing in the Seine, diving in the Danube: the drive to make cities swimmable

  • People in hi-vis and hard hats in the brick vaults

    Vaults of ambition: shock find under London Museum enchants its builders

  • Valentina Moretti's Home in Brescia

    Absolutely prefabulous: a vision of the future

  • From left: Leonid Marushchak, Yevhen Sternichuk and Marharita Kravchenko.

    Ukraine’s death-defying art rescuers

  • Leonid Marushchak with an art work by Ukrainian ceramicist Nina Fedorova, from his personal collection.

    Ukraine’s art evacuators: the intrepid team rescuing art from a warzone – in pictures

    After Russia’s invasion in 2022, historian Leonid Marushchak saw that Ukraine’s cultural heritage was under threat too. So he vowed to get to these irreplaceable works before Putin’s forces could
  • Words, words, words … a gallerygoer considers Rajasthan (Wall Painting), 2012, by Bridget Riley.

    Five of the best novels about art

    Rachel Cusk, Raven Leilani and Hari Kunzru are among writers inspired by artists to find shape and form in their own works
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