‘The women are both me’: Heather McAlister’s best phone picture
From The Instigators to Bludfest: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment
Matt Damon and Casey Affleck star in a breezy Bostonian crime caper, while Doncaster’s favourite goth-pop pup, Yungblud, stages his own festival
The week around the world in 20 pictures
Riots in the UK, Israeli bombardment in Gaza, wildfires in California and Noah Lyles winning the 100m at the Paris Olympics: the last seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists
Speculation rife about Banksy’s London murals after five appear in a week
Ofili stands out in Edinburgh, print legends and money in the Banksy – the week in art
‘My first thought was to have the whole thing be a swimming pool’: the basement refurb that optimised space to the max
Edinburgh art festival review – haunting return of the railway that robbed Africa
Association of Photographers Awards – documentary finalists
Australians compete in week two of the Paris Olympics 2024 – in pictures
With Australia sitting high on the medal table, the action continues across a several forms of competition, including open water swimming, boxing, water polo and athletics
Sefton Samuels obituary
Photojournalist who documented life in north-west England, with subjects ranging from LS Lowry and George Best to bingo players and coalminers
Ukraine’s art evacuators: the intrepid team rescuing art from a warzone – in pictures
After Russia’s invasion in 2022, historian Leonid Marushchak saw that Ukraine’s cultural heritage was under threat too. So he vowed to get to these irreplaceable works before Putin’s forces could
Five of the best novels about art
Rachel Cusk, Raven Leilani and Hari Kunzru are among writers inspired by artists to find shape and form in their own works
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