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Art & design

  • Paul Ickovic obituary

  • The news from a Mozambique landfill site – Mário Macilau’s best photograph

    ‘The men who roam this dump play an important role in the economy, but they are marginalised. I was warned they were “uncivilised”, that they would steal my camera, attack me, even kill me’

  • Françoise Gilot obituary

    French painter who wrote about her relationship with the artist Pablo Picasso in a bestselling book

  • Women behind the lens: ‘The next day she got a tattoo of broken glass’

  • Tina Turner to Cindy Crawford: icons shot by Richard Avedon – in pictures

     

  • Spirits, Star Wars and a giant bandicoot: the immersive art show taking over Flinders Street station

  • Françoise Gilot, painter and muse to Picasso, dies at 101

Reviews

  • Art and design
    Joana Vasconcelos: Wedding Cake review – giant woodland gateau is an absurd slice of joy

    This lovingly crafted tower in Lord Rothschild’s grove is kitsch and beautiful – with glossy icing, dolphins, putti, mermaids and Cupids in crisp pastel colours. What a preposterous masterpiece!

    • Architecture
      Serpentine Pavilion 2023 review – giant cocktail umbrella gives the park a party vibe

    • Art and design
      Royal Academy Summer Exhibition review – flashes of brilliance amid the anodyne jumble sale

    • National Gallery of Victoria (NGV)
      Rembrandt: True to Life exhibition – a thoughtful celebration of the Dutch old master

Photography

  • Mobsters, murder and moments of resistance: life under the Sicilian mafia – in pictures

     

  • Larry Sultan’s painterly photographs of swimmers

  • The big picture: Rodney Smith channels the spirit of Magritte

Architecture

  • The ultimate eco building – made of salt, sunflowers and recycled urine

  • Protecting Bosnia and Herzegovina’s anti-fascist legacy: Mostar’s Partisan Memorial Cemetery

  • Raptor-ous reception for nesting ospreys

  • Three things with Tim Ross: ‘It was her final gift of love to me’

Visual arts

  • Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris review – sacrifices art to history

  • Full transparency: the everyday art of glassware – in pictures

     

  • The water’s lovely: art that celebrates bathing – in pictures

     
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