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  • Five old friends who used to be showgirls, on the seafront in Eastbourne, UK

    The showgirl sisterhood: five former variety stars look back at their wild careers – in pictures

    The ‘Golden girls of Eastbourne’ first crossed paths more than 50 years ago. They recall flammable feather head-dresses, wardrobe malfunctions and topping the bill over the Beatles
  • A woman and a dog sitting on a blow-up ring in a swimming pool

    ‘The angle of the dog, the hat and the tattoo on her foot all come together’: Trace Meek’s best phone picture

  • *5 4 TRAIL - Going out, staying in - TheDogStars

    From The Dog Stars to Erykah Badu: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

  • Aerial view shows buildings buried in mud beside a river after flooding in Nepal

    The week around the world in 20 pictures

    Gallery20
  • A scene from the Bayeux tapestry

    The Guardian view on the loan of the Bayeux tapestry: a manifestation of soft power

  • Wilem Frischmann in front of Centre Point

    Wilem Frischmann obituary

  • A large mural of Ronnie O'Sullivan leaning over a snooker table

    Artist defends Ronnie O’Sullivan mural in Sheffield saying it isn’t finished

  • Detail of Eva Rothschild's sculpture: tangled painted wires surround two dark, eye-shaped forms

    Art
    Vile statues, writhing liquorice and kids marooned online: Edinburgh art festival review

  • David Hockney and Betty Freeman.

    David Hockney
    The Beverly Hills Housewife by James Cahill review – a trip inside Hockney’s world

  • Man in a fedora looking up at a skyscraper

    Art and design
    Portrait of a City review – master photographers capture the US cityscape in all its grime, grit and glory

  • Jounghye Yoo, Gilded Veil, Hyundai Translocal Series: Entangled and Woven installation (2026) the Whitworth, The University of Manchester. Photo by Michael Pollard..jpg

    Art and design
    Entangled and Woven review – exquisitely spun textiles that cross borders, culture and time

  • Our Spectral Vision (2016) by Liz West. Installation image from Victory Over the Sun, The Light, Durham. Opening 22 August.

    A gallery glow up, spooky sculpture and a magical modern – the week in art

  • A girl in a gown and crown tows a 'pearl of the sea' float with a 'second prize' card attached

    Clowns, punks and a queen: Dartmoor town’s carnival days in the 70s and 80s – in pictures

    Gallery16
  • Bishop Desmond Tutu rests his head on the table, hands clasped in front of him

    ‘I am so tired’: Jillian Edelstein’s devastating portraits of apartheid and more – in pictures

    Gallery15
  • Janet, a quarry worker, balances a large stone slab on her head

    A Ugandan quarry worker carrying rocks on her head: Dan Nelken’s best photograph

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    AI and artists can click – a new manifesto for modern creativity

    The UK is both an epicentre of global creative industries and a budding AI powerhouse. Here’s how it can balance support for creatives while also embracing technological changes
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    The flat-pack skyscraper: how wood can shape the cities of the future

  • Rendering of the Rotterdam ROCKS!, a monumental rounded green building with circular windows with hi-tech towers in the background

    Climate-saving wonder – or ₮240m vanity bauble that ages like milk? The rocks set to hit Rotterdam docks

  • Pat Wakely

    Pat Wakely obituary

  • Simon Houfe Dynevor Cottage addressing friends at the house warming 2014

    Simon Houfe obituary

  • The Gilbert Family, 1864In nineteenth-century Australian art, gigantic eucalypts with hollow bases were presented both as objects of awe and as backdrops for settler–colonist self-imaging. Pastoralist and founding Barossa vine grower Joseph Gilbert commissioned Alexander Schramm to depict his family posed around, and within, this giant tree, rather than in his formal gardens or orchards. The Aboriginal man, possibly Peramangk or Ngadjuri, shown tending the pony, and the dead possum carried triumphantly in the setter’s mouth, further the depiction of colonial dominance. Gilbert’s estate Pewsey Vale continues as a winery today; the ancient tree, hollowed by fires, was subsequently lost to fire.

    Tall tales: the gumtree in art – in pictures

    Gallery14
  • People view artworks by Ana Mendieta during a press preview for the exhibition dedicated to the Cuban-American artist, at Tate Modern in London, Britain, 13 July 2026.

    My advice to new Tate director – show us more art

  • Culture wars: the fight to save Ukraine’s art – podcast

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  • Composite image showing etching of William Wilberforce, cartoon of Barbara Castle and black and white photo of Benjamin Disraeli

    Photo of Disraeli among missing parliamentary works of art, FoI request finds

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