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  • brick building with three rows of windows in the city

    Public artwork reframes US history of enslavement through Jefferson’s valet

  • An art handler wearing white gloves holds up the framed cover art, which shows Harry standing in front of a train before heading to Hogwarts

    Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone artwork sells for record £1.5m

    Watercolour drawing for first book’s cover becomes most expensive item from the series ever sold at auction
  • Bharti Kher, Six Women, 2012-14.

    ‘My sculptures are alive. They dance around the gallery at night’: the viscerally spiritual art of Bharti Kher

    Invoking philosophy, womanhood and religion, the Delhi- and London-based artist turns material objects into something truly human
  • Horsing around … Constance Jaeggi’s Escaramuza, the Poetics of Home

    Giddyup! LensCulture critics’ choice awards – in pictures

  • ‘The skin has a luminous quality that makes it seem very real’ … from Sergio Purtell’s book Moral Minority.

    A bodybuilder pinches his bulging thigh – Sergio Purtell’s best photograph

  • ‘I have to be as hands-on as a sculptor’ … Barbara Kasten.

    ‘Bewilderingly evanescent’: how a darkroom allergy made Barbara Kasten see the light

  • Inches from injury … kids at play in Havana.

    Francis Alÿs: Ricochets review – children of the world unite in a health and safety nightmare

  • An installation review of Mona's 2024 exhibition Namedropping

    Mona
    Namedropping: is Mona’s latest exhibition its most annoying yet?

  • Little Angel (Angelita), Sonoran Desert, Mexico 1979

    Photography
    Graciela Iturbide review – death-soaked genius from a Mexican master

  • Installation view of Tavares Strachan There Is Light Somewhere. Intergalactic Palace, 2024, and Ruin of a Giant (King Tubby), 2024. Photo Mark Blower.

    Installation
    Tavares Strachan: There Is Light Somewhere; Megan Rooney: Echoes and Hours – review

  • Yoshida Toshi, Unknown (Michi no), 1968.

    Art
    Yoshida review – brilliant prints bleached of historical colour

  • Children with abandoned / stolen car, Everton, Liverpool 1981<br>Children with abandoned / stolen car. Tommy White Gardens Everton, Liverpool 1981

    ‘Some people refused to leave their flats’: Britain through the Thatcher years – in pictures

  • ‘No one else was making the images I wanted to see’ … from Corrine’s Oregon series.

    Lesbians unleashed! The joyous, sexually explicit photographer no publisher would touch

    Tee A Corinne took fearless shots of same-sex lovers in a 1980s Oregon commune – and published a notoriously intimate colouring book that became a minor classic. Has her time come at last?
  • Duke Mantee<br>1936:  Humphrey Bogart (1899 - 1957) plays ruthless outlaw Duke Mantee in 'The Petrified Forest', directed by Archie Mayo.  (Photo via John Kobal Foundation/Getty Images)

    Bogart, Dietrich, Keaton: faces from Hollywood’s golden years – in pictures

    A new book pulls together glamorous portraits of film stars from the 1920s to the 60s who could draw an audience with their name alone
  • Ken Isaacs, Beach Matrix, Westport, Connecticut, 1967

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

  • Marks & Spencer store in Marble Arch, Oxford Street.

    New Marks & Spencer building will be a showcase for low-carbon design

  • Oliver Wainwright

    Change? If only. Labour’s housing plans are built on flimsy foundations, fantasies and fudge

    Oliver Wainwright
  • Punchbowl mosque in south-west Sydney

    Art museum and mosque among Australian projects recognised in UK’s RIBA architecture awards

  • 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
  • Horn of plenty … a tapestry fragment from Flanders, c1500.

    Artistic unicorns, protest ceramics and queer art from Morocco – the week in art

    Greenham Common inspires a new generation, designer Enzo Mari gets playful and Perth Museum dedicates its first exhibition to a mythical beast prized since antiquity
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