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  • Hercules and the Cretan Bull by Francisco de Zurbarán.

    A mind-bending Spaniard, an imagistic Puerto Rican and a lush Latvian – the week in art

    A revelatory Zurbarán show proves him the equal of Goya and Picasso, Angel Otero takes up a Somerset residency and Daiga Grantina brings nature to abstraction – all in your weekly dispatch
  • Jenna Bliss, True Entertainment, 2023 – 24, HD video, 31:59 minutes. Courtesy of the artist and FELIX GAUDLITZ. - 6 Collectors copy

    Genuine Fake Premium Economy review – brilliantly obnoxious millennial rage at a rigged financial world

  • Michael Billington

    As a schoolboy, I was dazzled by the Festival of Britain – but it revealed a divided nation

    Michael Billington
  • A squirrel searches for food in a park during a cold spring weather in Moscow, Russia.

    Week in wildlife: a clever orangutan, a cheeky frog and a dramatic whale rescue

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  • Georg Baselitz

    German artist Georg Baselitz dies aged 88

  • Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, president of the Venice Biennale.

    Venice Biennale jury quits amid row over participation of Russia

  • German painter and sculptor Georg Baselitz poses next to his Women of Dresden sculptures at Paris Modern Art museum in 2011.

    ‘In every slurp of paint, you see the Holocaust’: the genius and torments of Georg Baselitz

  • Figure silhouetted in The Sun Tunnels, a Nancy Holt sculpture in Utah.

    Art
    Nancy Holt review – cosmic thrills as the universe’s hidden power is unleashed

  • St Peter Nolasco kneeling before apparition of crucified St Peter by Zurbarán

    Painting
    Zurbarán review – ecstatic visions, primitive surrealism … and the finest loincloths ever painted

  • Margot Bergman, Bait, 2002.

    Exhibitions
    Salon review – like getting to know fascinating guests at a fabulous party

  • Jennifer Packer, Chrysanthemums (2015), oil on canvas. 12x9 inches (30.4x22.8cm). © Jennifer Packer. Photograph © The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge.

    Art
    Handpicked review – delightful dancing dahlias and petals so pillowy you can feel them

  • Commuters at Churchgate railway station, Mumbai, 1995. By RAGHU RAI

    Raghu Rai’s masterful images of Indian life – in pictures

    Gallery10
  • The 14th edition of the KYOTOGRAPHIE international photography festival will take place in Kyoto, Japan, from April 18 to May 17, 2026. The Space Between Love and Comfort, 2025

    ‘Sensitive, sexy and surreal’: Japan’s Kyotographie festival

  • Guardian Australia's picture editor, Carly Earl, hand-picks her three favourite photographs of the month, and explains what makes them special

    A world record, a media frenzy and Earth's wonder: Guardian Australia's top photos of April – video

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  • Passengers and dog preparing to board private jet for voyage to Uruguay

    In plane sight: how the gilded elite live – in pictures

    Gallery12
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  • James Nepaulsingh, Cassidy Lowe - Planesight / Nighthawk, 2025 Convenience stores receive shipments every week, sometimes daily. This project aims to highlight the unseen labour and costs behind everyday shelf items by taking discarded foriegn shipping boxes and manipulating them into a paper plane. Hosan Lee- complex systems mapping workshop

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  • Simon White sitting in a stone window archway with his father standing in front.

    Man who pocketed tiles from medieval priory as boy returns them 60 years later

  • Interior of the Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities in Oxford

    Oxford’s new £185m humanities hub is polished, refined … and funded by a Trump ally

  • Yael Melamede and Ada Karmi-Melamede.

    Ada: My Mother the Architect review – illuminating profile of brilliant builder balances work and family

  • A public toilet in Tokyo, where interest in the facilities is surging after the release of Perfect Days, which has been nominated for an Oscar.

    Public toilets: more than a matter of convenience

  • National Art Pass spring 2025 campaign with (left) Henri Matisse, The Snail (L’escargot), 1952-1953. and (right) Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck, Growing Memories, 2021

    Art for art’s sake, but for people’s health too

  • Georges Seurat’s oil painting Bathers at Asnieres at The National Gallery, London.

    The remarkable man who made Art UK possible

  • The black and white Picasso portrait of a woman

    Paris art enthusiast wins €1m Picasso painting in €100 charity raffle

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    Back to the 90s: Tate exhibition to explore decade’s art and fashion

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