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  • Gus Casely-Hayford

    double quotation markMuseums have a duty to inspire the creatives of the future. At V&A East, I’ve made that my mission

    Gus Casely-Hayford
    It breaks my heart to see young people disengaged when so much inspiration is within reach. I want our new museum to bridge that gap, says Gus Casely-Hayford, director of V&A East
  • A rock hanging down against a cloudy sky above the sea, with a hole in one side of it

    ‘I want people to see nature as a wondrous work of art’: Jon McCormack’s best phone picture

  • A display of magazine covers on a wall

    Story of Black British music writ large in first exhibition at V&A East

  • Lee Cronin's The Mummy

    From Lee Cronin’s The Mummy to Zayn: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

  • Residents stand near an apartment building damaged by Russian drone strikes in Kyiv

    The week around the world in 20 pictures

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  • Inside the new V&A East Museum

    The Guardian view on a much-needed boost for the arts: rebuilding England’s cultural landscape

  • A woman with a fan bearing the image of Pope Leo XIV

    Thousands gather for open-air mass with Pope Leo in Cameroon – in pictures

    Gallery14
  • Military-style health control post installation by Racheal Crowther at Chisenhale Gallery

    Art and design
    Racheal Crowther review – unnerving installation attacks your mind … and your nostrils!

  • Paula Rego Study for Embarkation, 1992 Pencil on paper

    Art and design
    Paula Rego review – tantalising drawings with the shoeprints left on them

  • The V&A East Museum, designed by architects O'Donnell+Tuomey.

    V&A
    V&A East Museum architecture review – from ceramics to codpieces, this is a honey-coloured treasure trove of human ingenuity

  • Installation view: V&A East Museum’s Why We Make galleries. Althea McNish. Photo: © David Parry/ V&A

    V&A
    V&A East collection review – a dazzling wealth of inspiration to fire up the geniuses of the future

  • Doron Langberg's painting Hibiscus 1

    Petal passion, super-surreal Polaroids and Billy Childish’s California – the week in art

  • Phillip of Tanna a self taught volcano scientist lives at the base of Yasur volcano in his local village on Tanna. He collaborateds with international scientists to document information about Vanuatu's volcanos. In this image he poses in a gifted lava suit on the ash plaine of Yasur On the ash plains of Mount Yasur, on the island of Tanna, Vanuatu, Phillip, an internationally recognised, self-taught volcanologist, stands barefoot atop a volcanic rock bomb. Wearing a lava-protection suit gifted to him by some visiting researchers, the volcano smoulders behind him, sending a plume of gas and sulphur into the sky. Phillip grew up beneath the active volcano, and this portrait captures him in his element.

    Australian photographer wins at world photography awards with ‘barefoot volcanologist’ image

  • Sheriff Knight (centre), the ‘Dancing Cowboy,’ leads the line dance during International Cowboy Day.

    Sony world photography awards 2026 – in pictures

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  • Patti Smith at the Chelsea

    Artists, clowns, runaways: a stay at the Chelsea Hotel – in pictures

    Gallery14
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  • James Nepaulsingh, Cassidy Lowe - Planesight / Nighthawk, 2025 Convenience stores receive shipments every week, sometimes daily. This project aims to highlight the unseen labour and costs behind everyday shelf items by taking discarded foriegn shipping boxes and manipulating them into a paper plane. Hosan Lee- complex systems mapping workshop

    Meet the lawyer, the marketing executive and the tech founder who enrolled in art school

  • Product experience designer Julian Yutong Zhu and her artifact manual. Emma Deegan

    ‘We can be pioneers’: how art school creators are adapting to the age of AI

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    ‘We attract very entrepreneurial students’: the art and design university that backs startup success

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    ‘A space for exploration’: the London art school helping people to shape the world

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  • A futuristic looking building made of concrete and glass.

    Like a concrete aircraft carrier: was LA’s giant new $724m gallery really worth all the carbon emissions?

  • Douglas Lees sitting in a chair looking at the camera

    Douglas Lees obituary

  • A large building surrounded by forest.

    Puerto Rico’s rainforest center reborn: in pictures

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  • Henry's Castle stands whitewashed on top of a knoll

    Mysterious Lake District barn joins national treasures on heritage list

  • Georges Seurat’s oil painting Bathers at Asnieres at The National Gallery, London.

    The remarkable man who made Art UK possible

  • The black and white Picasso portrait of a woman

    Paris art enthusiast wins €1m Picasso painting in €100 charity raffle

  • Unlike fashion week, where an invite is essential, anyone can go along to Frieze – if they pay about £60 for a ticket.

    ‘A fashion and art moment’: how mediums mix at Frieze art fair

  • Two men stood in front of a bright collage-style mural on the side of a brick building.Pictured are (l-r) Saad Eddine Said(CEO and Artistic Director) and Executive Director Adam Roe by part of the Beyond The Wall Project at the New Art Exchange in Hyson Green, Nottingham. A project where they have commissioned murals to adorn surrounding buildings and walls. Photo by Fabio De Paola

    The art of the possible: the Nottingham art gallery being run by citizens’ assembly

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