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Marvel get sweary as Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman snap on the spandex, and TikTok’s favourite rap star finally releases her debut album Deadpool & Wolverine Out now Way back when, Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) was the irreverent, rebellious one, in contrast to the more earnest X-Men such as Professor Xavier. Now he’s paired with Deadpool, the guy who represents the zenith (or nadir) of snook-cocking…

Running alongside the Archibald prize, the Young Archie competition invites artists from five to 18 years old to submit a portrait of someone who is special to them and plays a significant role in their life. Over 4,000 entries were received this year – a new record – and all 70 finalists are on show at the Art Gallery of NSW until 8 September Continue reading...

Wildfires in California, Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington, Israeli bombardment in Gaza and Snoop Dogg at the Paris Olympics: the last seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists • Warning: this gallery contains images that some readers may find distressing Continue reading...

A giant of 20th-century design whose products – from food mixers to lamps and trains – became staples of British life Kenneth Grange, who has died aged 95, was the leading British product designer of the second half of the 20th century. Even if unaware of his name, most people in Britain are familiar with his output : the Kenwood Chef food mixer, the Kodak Instamatic camera, the Ronson Rio hairdr…

A major retrospective of Peter Kennard’s dissenting images, the V&A goes for Swifties and The Hay Wain arrives in Bristol – all in your weekly dispatch Peter Kennard: Archive of Dissent The veteran montage artist and activist gets a retrospective of his incisive images. • Whitechapel Gallery, London , until 19 January Continue reading...

From an unexpected glimpse of a silky anteater to a tagged terrapin, here is a selection of this year’s winning, runner-up and commended images from the 2024 Mangrove photography awards , run by the Mangrove Action Project Continue reading...

Inspired by opera houses, the grands magasins were astonishing spectacles, built on a pharaonic scale. A new exhibition in the French capital charts the golden age of a dying concept On the top floor of the fabled La Samaritaine department store in Paris, an empty row of champagne-branded deckchairs is arranged on an artificial beach, facing a wall-sized digital screen of the sun setting over a s…

From cold war subcultures to topless bridesmaids, a new exhibition at Kicken Berlin features half a century of groundbreaking images Continue reading...

The UK’s foremost political artist talks through half a century of his work, on show at the Whitechapel Gallery in London Even as he hangs work for a retrospective at one of his childhood haunts, London’s Whitechapel Gallery, Peter Kennard seems beset by misgivings. Archive of Dissent is a celebration of 50 years of work by the UK’s foremost political artist, yet he admits to a “ sense of failure…

Taken in a vacant lot behind photographer Jordan Baumgarten’s home in Philadelphia, these images capture the joy of a tight neighbourhood community Continue reading...

Whitechapel Gallery, London Striking images spanning 50 years of protest, power and political villains fill this dark-as-hell show of DIY photomontages At the pivotal moment of a good joke, the familiar takes an unexpected turn and the world appears tilted on its axis. It is a stretch to describe Peter Kennard’s dark-as-hell photo collages as jokes, but there is certainly shared methodology. Kenn…

Tate Modern, London Is it love or just a summer fling? Oscar Murillo has invited the public to add their own paint to his canvas – but I wouldn’t be tempted. Would I? Look at me – I’m Jackson Pollock! Doing action painting in the Tate Turbine Hall! I usually dread interactive art. I prefer to look at art silently, passively and, assuming it’s good enough, to absorb its nuances and meanings slowly…

Nearly 80 years after it was conceived, an update to a peerless series of guides to the country’s architecture concludes with a detailed Staffordshire handbook that, typically, isn’t just an exercise in nostalgia In the 1940s, a refugee from Nazi Germany called Nikolaus Pevsner started travelling round the lanes and streets of England, armed with sheaves of notes compiled in advance from lengthy …

The museum’s newly transformed gardens are a collaborative triumph, offering a walk through geological time in a landscape of ancient rocks and Jurassic planting that’s a haven for wildlife, Londoners and dinosaurs alike The Urban Nature Project , the Natural History Museum’s transformation of the five-acre open space in front of it, is a triumph of cultural and architectural multitasking. It edu…