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  • Maurizio Cattelan's artwork Comedian

    $5.2m for a duct-taped banana: has the buyer of Maurizio Cattelan’s artwork slipped up?

  • black-and-white close-up of man with mustache

    Raoul Peck on his Ernest Cole film: ‘I wanted to give him the total podium’

    The director of I Am Not Your Negro focuses on the South African photographer who covered apartheid in his homeland before working in the US
  • Hair raising … Gold with a Mind of Its Own by Chelsea Odufu.

    Going for gold: the best of Africa Foto Fair – in pictures

    From the niqab reimagined as a luxury brand good to the plights of female boxers in Lagos, this year’s festival mixes politics with panache
  • The artwork's new owner will receive a banana, a roll of duct tape, a certificate of authenticity and instructions on how to install the work

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    'World's most expensive banana' fetches $US5.2m at auction – video

  • An orangutan climbs a tree in Gunung Palung national park.

    A Bornean orangutan on a fearless quest for figs: Tim Laman’s best photograph

  • Rene Magritte’s Empire of Light, on display at Christie's.

    Magritte painting sells for record $121m at auction

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    ‘It changed 20th-century art’: revisiting Robert Frank’s The Americans – in pictures

  • On Center, On Edge Shatter Scatter by Barry Le Va, created by hitting glass with a sledgehammer, pictured in 1968. A newer version of this piece is in the Fruitmarket exhibition.

    Art
    Barry Le Va review – smash hits from the danger-loving king of ‘floor art’

  • Paul Reas, Hand of Pork, Caerphilly, South Wales, 1985-1988.

    Art and design
    The 80s: Photographing Britain review – a meandering look at pomp, protest – and pork

  • Tirzah Garwood woodcut called Table Turning (detail)

    Painting
    Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious; Dora Carrington: Beyond Bloomsbury – review

  • James Barnor, Drum Cover Girl Erlin Ibreck, Kilburn,
London, 1966, from As We Rise: Photography from the
Black Atlantic (Aperture, 2021). Courtesy Autograph
ABP

    Photography
    As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic review – every image contains some kind of magic

  • CJ Larry with slicked back hair, in a Hugo Boss tracksuit top, in Buttevant, County Cork.

    ‘They are the last community people are openly racist about’: Sam Wright on his tender portraits of Travellers

  • Kids on a rooftop of Kowloon’s Walled City, Hong Kong, 1989.

    Noodles, AI skyscraping and survival: inside Kowloon Walled City – in pictures

    Before its demolition, the towering Hong Kong neighbourhood was home to gangs, entrepreneurs, families and addicts. A new exhibition explores it using vintage photos and AI creations
  • black and white photo of two boys with bikes on a railway track

    American: Robin de Puy’s portraits of people at a time of division – in pictures

    Dutch photographer Robin de Puy travelled across the US to find underrepresented voices during a turbulent time for a new project examining a country under strain
  • ‘More caves and fewer goldfish bowls’ … Paul Rudolph, architect, in his 1968 pomp.

    Celebrated, reviled, reborn: Paul Rudolph, the brutalist architect with a party streak

  • A Palestinian man walking around Israel's West Bank barrier in Bethlehem. A Banksy image of a protester throwing flowers is in the foreground

    German architecture award rescinded over British artist’s Israel boycott vow

  • Installation view of the 2024 NGV Architecture Commission, Home Truth by Breathe

    When bigger isn’t better: do Australian houses need to be the largest in the world?

  • Hardwick Hall<br>2T3NH0C Hardwick Hall

    A Short History of British Architecture by Simon Jenkins review – Doric columns and grand designs: the greatest hits

  • From left: Leonid Marushchak, Yevhen Sternichuk and Marharita Kravchenko.

    Ukraine’s death-defying art rescuers

  • Embracing ambiguity … Dumas at her new exhibition in the Frith Street Gallery.

    ‘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
  • Leonid Marushchak with an art work by Ukrainian ceramicist Nina Fedorova, from his personal collection.

    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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