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  • Teenager sitting on her bed

    ‘It’s the quagmire of teenage existence - vulnerability with confidence’: Denise Marcotte’s best phone picture

  • Emma Stone and Joe Alwyn in Kinds of Kindness.

    Kinds of Kindness to A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

    Yorgos Lanthimos teams up with Emma Stone for the third time in this off-kilter and provocative tale, while Emma Myers leads the new YA drama adaptation from Holly Jackson’s smash-hit novel
  • Iris van Herpen / Netherlands b.1984 / Cosmica dress, from the ‘Shift Souls’ collection 2019 /Organza, tulle / Print collaborator: Kim Keever / Collection: Iris van Herpen / Photograph: Warren du Preez & Nick Thornton Jones / © Warren du Preez & Nick Thornton Jones

    A water dress, a Dune-inspired gown and haute couture for Beyoncé: the avant-garde world of Iris van Herpen — in pictures

    In a new exhibition at the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, the Dutch designer showcases more than 170 items from her career
  • Marina Abramović on the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury festival.

    ‘Give unconditional love to each other’: artist Marina Abramović silences Glastonbury for seven minutes

  • Police officers and security personnel take positions outside the Kenyan parliament during a nationwide protest against the finance bill

    The week around the world in 20 pictures

  • A platform with stone blocks overlooks the ocean and an overcast sky

    Sydney firm scoops top NSW architecture prize for rebuild of North Head viewing platforms

  • Sharpening the Saws by Oleksandr Bohomazov, 1927.

    Giants of Ukrainian art, Henry Moore goes to war and Chris Ofili’s myth making – the week in art

  • Inches from injury … kids at play in Havana.

    Exhibitions
    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

  • Lily Allen and Miquita Oliver photographed in London for the Observer New Review by Perou, June 2024.

    Original Observer Photography

  • Horsing around … Constance Jaeggi’s Escaramuza, the Poetics of Home

    Giddyup! LensCulture critics’ choice awards – in pictures

    From Mexican horse-riding gangs and sparkling fireflies to canaries in the coal mine, this year’s winning photographs offered up plenty of animal magic
  • ‘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

    ‘This was taken at a small high school event. It was all about who could create the “perfect body” by working hard – and maybe becoming the next Arnold Schwarzenegger’
  • Roger Walker’s 1973 complex Park Mews in Wellington’s Hataitai district

    ‘I may have reacted too far’: architect Roger Walker on his groundbreaking buildings

  • DO NOT USE!! CURRENTLY AWAITING PUBLICATION DATE Saturday magazine Interiors feature - Cowshed

    ‘A nearby farmer took the whole herd’: how a couple turned a cowshed into a dream home for artists

  • 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

  • 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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