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Helen Frankenthaler: Radical Beauty review – the most sublime show of the year?
Dulwich Picture Gallery, LondonSlow, determined and infinitely hard-won, the woodcut prints of the late American artist transcend their rigid medium with visions of radiant liberationThe show of the season, if not the year, is a sequence of 36 visions …
Greenwich Design District review – a lesson in how to make somewhere out of nowhere
Eight architects, 16 new buildings and one masterplan have converged in the shadow of London’s O2 to conjure up a neighbourhood for creative types that’s full of energy and charmThere once was an area in Singapore – Bugis – which, its trans nightlife b…
Raising the roof: lofty ambitions in Lisbon
London-based designer Rui Ribeiro returns to his roots to create a pied-à-terre in the Portuguese capitalWhen the London-based interior designer Rui Ribeiro set about looking for a pied-à-terre in Lisbon, it took him five years to find the ideal place….
‘Something magical happens’: the cameras helping refugee children to heal
We talk to the man behind an extraordinary project in Turkey, where children, most of them refugees, have been given old analogue cameras and taught the art of photographySerbest Salih studied photography at college in Aleppo, before fleeing Syria with…
The big picture: standing out from the crowd in New Delhi, 1984
A lifelong passion for India and its people is evident in Mitch Epstein’s colourful new collectionThe photographer Mitch Epstein fell in love with the idea of India long before he went there. As a young man from small-town New England, he watched Ravi …
Art of neon: light flickers on old British craft, but new show aims to keep it alive
Major exhibition will reveal how neon went from the staple of brash advertising to an art formAcross two galleries in Wakefield sit more than half a dozen tubes of light at least two metres tall, revolving on the spot and creating ethereal shapes in th…
Object lesson: Michael Craig-Martin’s paintings of Covid era items – in pictures
Lockdown was a productive time for Michael Craig-Martin: most of the works in his new show at Amsterdam’s Reflex gallery were created in its grip. He continued his longstanding project of painting everyday objects in minimal style, their clean lines an…
‘The cover is like a piece of art in itself’: 32 years of Guardian Weekend magazine
Since its creation in late 1988, the Guardian’s Saturday supplement has been lauded for front covers and features that have caught the eye and sparked joy or sometimes controversy. As its final edition is published, some of the team who worked on it ex…
Twenty photographs of the week
The Taliban in Kabul, Emma Raducanu winning the US Open, wildfires in California and the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks – the most striking images from around the world this week Continue reading…