Floods, protesters and remembering 7 October: photos of the day – Monday
The big picture: Melanie Friend encounters a changing China
The photojournalist’s record of her 1986 trip is full of friendly, spontaneous exchanges with locals unaccustomed to western visitors
The week around the world in 20 pictures
The Middle East crisis, the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, Femen activists in Kyiv and Paris fashion week: the last seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists
‘Art may be a pact with the devil’: the great Marlene Dumas on her darkly provocative art
She pours or even tosses paint on to a canvas – to see where it takes her. The results range from myths to massacres, bound heads to Satan. In a rare interview, the great artist reveals what drives her
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
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