He shoots, he scores! Basketball as you’ve never seen it before – in pictures

In 2019, Austin Bell embarked on a wild quest to photograph all 2,549 of Hong Kong’s outdoor basketball courts using drone cameras and Google Maps. The results offer a fresh perspective on the city

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‘We all want to know what he was doing in the bedroom’: Kerouac’s unseen archive goes on show in New York

As the original On the Road scroll heads to auction, a new exhibition uncovers the private life of the Beat legend

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‘Beauty in the everyday’: A butterfly’s-eye view of the world – in pictures

US photographer Jeff Mermelstein has been likened to the winged insect due to his passion for flitting from one attractive subject to the next, as shown in his new book of work

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‘A country pulled in opposite directions’: destruction and hope in Ukraine – in pictures

Photographer Robin Hinsch insists that Lonely Are All the Bridges is not a war book – it’s a portrait of a society being torn apart and the human threads trying to hold it together

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‘Of course I’m scared’: people confront their final days – in pictures

Sibylle Fendt’s intimate photographs of terminally ill patients and their carers were inspired by the death of her own husband – a period in which she experienced pain, tenderness and love

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On Censorship by Ai Weiwei review – are we losing the battle for free speech?

China isn’t the only country imposing limits on creative expression, argues the provocative artist

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‘Love can be an addiction’: Nan Goldin’s Ballad of Sexual Dependency – in pictures

For the first time in the UK, the photographer’s magnum opus is going on display in its entirety – introducing new viewers to New York’s edgy downtown scene and a generation lost to Aids. Here, she looks back at the ‘fearlessness and wildness’ of her life and times

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‘A front row seat to witness history’: Ed Kashi’s astonishing global images – in pictures

From a thriving miniature city inside a Cairo cemetery to a goat sacrifice in Nigeria, the photojournalist’s eye-opening images are celebrated in a new book •Warning: this gallery contains images that some readers may find distressing

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‘I’m a prisoner of hope’: Olafur Eliasson on using art to bring us together to save the world

Inside Presence, the Icelandic-Danish artist’s epic new show in Brisbane, what you see changes based on where you stand or how you look – crucial when it comes to tackling the climate crisis

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Thomas Neurath obituary

Publisher who led Thames & Hudson for half a century and developed its bestselling World of Art series In 1967, when still in his 20s, Thomas Neurath became managing director of Thames & Hudson, the illustrated book publishers founded by his father and stepmother in 1949. He led the firm for half a century, continuing his parents’ aim…
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Thomas Neurath obituary

Publisher who led Thames & Hudson for half a century and developed its bestselling World of Art series

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