‘These flowers have witnessed horrific things’: Steve McQueen’s bountiful Grenada – in pictures

The artist and film-maker spent a summer on the island making poetic images of the local flora – and exploring their connections to Grenada’s historical trauma

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‘An open letter to the nation’: National Gallery of Art reckons with America at 250

An exhibition of almost 100 artists, from Gordon Parks to Roy Lichtenstein, positions the US as ‘a living idea that’s shaped by many voices’

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‘This scene is alive’: Abidjan art week showcases city as growing cultural hub
By Eromo Egbejule in Abidjan

Late-night gallery tours and new venues signal a city staking its claim as a regional arts capital

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‘This scene is alive’: Abidjan art week showcases city as growing cultural hub

Late-night gallery tours and new venues signal a city staking its claim as a regional arts capital

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‘This scene is alive’: Abidjan art week showcases city as growing cultural hub

Late-night gallery tours and new venues signal a city staking its claim as a regional arts capital

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Coachella 2026: Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber, Sombre – in pictures

Carpenter is fired out of a car on water jets, David Byrne wears head to toe orange, and the reclusive Bieber steps into the limelight

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€1m Picasso painting to be won for €100 in charity raffle

Number of tickets to win Tête de Femme will be capped at 120,000 and proceeds will go to Alzheimer’s research

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The week around the world in 20 pictures

Crisis in the Middle East, Russian shelling in Ukraine, Artemis’s lunar flyby and World Press Photo winners – the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists

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Who was Hilma? Af Klint exhibition to highlight exclusion of women from abstract art

Swedish artist, now regarded as predecessor to Kandinsky and Mondrian, died thinking world was not ready for her work

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Week in wildlife: an ostrich on the lam, a tortoise crossing a road and surfing seals

This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world

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Space: the ultimate wardrobe challenge – in pictures

As the Artemis II astronauts return from the moon, we celebrate the science, suits and spirit of endeavour that took them there, all brought together in a colourful new book called Space Journal

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