The Guardian » 1 hour ago
Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, Trump tariffs, the bin strike in Birmingham and the Grand National Meeting at Aintree: the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists...
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The Guardian » 5 hours ago
Exhibition of 456 works by the Bradford-born Francophile underscores Paris’s efforts to reclaim its status as Europe’s art capitalPoised to open its doors on Wednesday, Paris’s biggest art show of the year carries the humble title ...
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The Guardian » 4 days ago
She was the overshadowed member of the iconic group. But now, with a major exhibition not far from the house she turned into a work of art, Bell is finally getting her due. And she’s not the only oneWhen you think of the Bloomsbury Group – the writers, artists and intelle...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
My mother, Janet Stowell, who has died aged 88, was a trained artist. She also worked as a designer before turning to producing linocut designs as a sideline while raising her family. Later came weaving and teaching tai chi.Janet was born in Didsbury, Manchester, as the y...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
‘Our hair stood on end as the air around us became supercharged. There were telegraph poles and hailstones the size of oranges dropping out of the sky’I am a proud American, although that notion has been politicised to death in this country, where you’re not considered pa...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
In a region fractured by jihadists and coups, Ségou’Art shows ‘we share our culture, even if politics divides us’A group of Tuareg musicians dressed in light blue robes were playing by a campfire that cast dancing shadows on the red sand. A drum and violin accompanied the...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
Kettle’s Yard, CambridgeA flag hoisted in 1971 looms over a show that references to George Floyd, Inuit women and spear-bearing Amazons – to a droll soundtrack from Xena: Warrior Princess and Buffy the Vampire Slayer One gusty aftern...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
From art deco lidos to 1980s Speedos, the curator of a new exhibition on swimming and style talks about the inspiration behind it‘The first thing to say is that I’m a terrible swimmer,” says Amber Butchart, curator of a new exhibition on swimming that opens at the Design ...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
As life starts to return to the capital’s parks and woodlands, photographer Sarah Lee has been capturing daffodils and budding plants, walkers, buskers and joggers out in the sunshine. She says: ‘Everything feels so dark right now, it’s good to know the light is coming back’ ...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
The photojournalist, who died in January, captured daily life in East Germany as well as Castro and Gorbachev’s visits, the fall of the Berlin Wall and life in Vietnam during the war ...
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