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27 November 2024

  • Mostafa ‘Moz’ Azimitabar with his self-portrait, a finalist for the 2022 Archibald prize

    To not know if you will ever be safe is torture. Labor’s deportation laws are cruel

    Mostafa Azimitabar
  • Diana Cumming 1958

    Other lives
    Diana Cumming obituary

  • Monika Fleischmann and Wolfgang Strauss, Liquid Views, 1992.

    Electric Dreams review – the future ain’t what it used to be

  • Black Consciousness Day celebrations in Avenida Paulista, São Paulo.

    The Long Wave
    The Long Wave: How Brazil is celebrating its Black heritage

  • Dorothea Rockburne – New York great’s first big UK show all comes down to one long, mesmerising line

  • Bronwyn Oliver’s Tide breaks record for Australian sculpture after selling for $1m

26 November 2024

  • Maryam Tafakory, Razeh del (2024), film still. Courtesy the artist

    ‘Films were an escape – to a deeper repression’: Jarman winner Maryam Tafakory on Iranian cinema

    The UK-based artist and film-maker reveals how the work that has won her the prestigious award was the result of watching 417 films made in post-revolution Iran, many of which she ‘fell in love with – and felt betrayed by’
  • a woman dressed in a white cape

    Amy Sherald: ‘Sublimity in Black life can be seen in our ability to persist’

    The portraitist, known for her paintings of Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor, is bringing her first major museum survey to San Francisco and then New York City
  • René Magritte, La Condition Humaine, 1935, features in Forbidden Territories

    Forbidden Territories / The Traumatic Surreal review – coal sacks and furry tongues hit West Yorkshire

    Showcasing visions of tiny, sinister vipers and unnervingly hairy hearts, a pair of exhibitions celebrate the centenary of the movement that aimed to go beyond the rational and into the realm of dreams and nightmares

25 November 2024

  • Detail of The Spanish Pointer by George Stubbs, an oil painting of a brown-and-white dog creeping low to the ground in a landscape of fields and trees

    George Stubbs dog painting expected to reach up to £2m at auction

    The Spanish Pointer has not been seen by the public since 1972, when it sold for £30,000
  • Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels in Utah

    The great women's art bulletin
    See the light pour through: how art can free us from the exhaustion of smartphone addiction

    As tech giants hook us into endless scrolling, we are becoming less engaged, less creative, less connected, less human. Art reminds us to look outwards at the things that truly matter

    • The surreal deal: the exhibitions celebrating the revolutionary, illogical art of the absurd

    • Palestinian artists plan Gaza Biennale as ‘act of resistance and survival’

    • Britain faces ‘talent drain’ of visual artists as earnings fall by 40% since 2010

24 November 2024

  • Laurie Anderson’s Ark: United States V.

    Laurie Anderson: Ark: United States V review – a long and winding bid to make sense of America

  • two men kissing in a passionate embrace in the foreground, with riot police and a building on fire in the background

    The 80s: Photographing Britain review – in your face and to the barricades

23 November 2024

  • Maurizio Cattelan's Comedian, on display at Sotheby’s New York.

    The Observer view: Selling a piece of fruit for £4m isn’t bananas, it’s decadent. Art is better than this

  • Rene Magritte (1898-1967), belgian artist, in front of his painting.<br>PG655R Rene Magritte (1898-1967), belgian artist, in front of his painting.

    Trick of the light: the enduring appeal of René Magritte’s big tease

  • Mathew Baynton

    On my radar
    On my radar: Mathew Baynton’s cultural highlights

  • Edward Posnett.

    ‘The very thought of it repelled me’: how a skiing accident left me unable to read

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