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The mathematical secrets hidden at the heart of Barcelona’s Sagrada Família

2026 marks 100 years since the death of Antoni Gaudí, the architect of the Basilica of the Sagrada Família in Barcelona. While the temple’s beauty is extraordinary in its own right, it becomes even more profound when we explore the numerical forms that lie behind its striking forms.

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The Countdown to the 2026 Met Gala Is Over—Brush Up On the Dress Code, Hosts, and More

The first Monday in May is finally here. Are you ready?

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Ian Hamilton Finlay review – the visionary Scottish poet-artist’s mind in closeup

Words and ideas are as one – and at war – in Finlay’s witty, elegant work, from sculptures to screenprints, ideally displayed in this intimate centenary show

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Van Gogh’s smoking skeleton and Munch’s sickly sex-scapes: great artists’ ghoulish sides revealed

A show of unfamiliar works by the pioneers of modern art shows that they weren’t immune to the lure of darkness and horror – and that gothic is the style that never dies

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Cats and dogs shaped our world – and art: the NGV gives us the definitive exhibition

After a new relationship with pets was forged during COVID lockdown and the phenomenon of Bluey, we now have the definitive cats and dogs show presented by the National Gallery of Victoria.

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Every dog has its day at the gallery (and cats too)

Which side are you on? An art exhibition devoted to the love of humanity's furry friends has cats on one side of the gallery, and dogs on the other.

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Dressing up as a witch at Halloween? The sickening origins of this caricature may make you think again

How did the idea of a grotesque, green-skinned, broomstick-riding hag come about? It was a lethal combination of church zealots, the invention of the printing press – and male doctors contemptuous of female healers

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German Renaissance Engraving Found In Rubbish Dump By Boy Could Fetch £20,000‌ ‌

Rare discovery of Albrecht Dürer's masterpiece, 'Knight, Death, and the Devil,' astounds experts and collectors alike.‌

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Tour-guide sleuth puzzles over identity of painter of reassembled Lamentation Altarpiece

After 14 years of research, Christine Cluley sheds light on the work by a ‘Franconian Master’ now on show at Compton Verney

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Eek! Yikes! Love the tidying mouse video? Here are the greatest mice in art

Photographer Rodney Holbrook isn’t the first artist to capture a rodent in his studio. From Keith Haring to Paul Klee, painters have long been fascinated – and tormented – by the creatures

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How a parchment of ideas evolved into the RPG work of art that is Pentiment

Holiday Long Read | Edge magazine explores the making of Obsidian's uniquely eye-catching hit

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Mat Collishaw review – AI plants put the shock and sensation back into British art

Gorgeous blooms and stunning curiosities evoke botanical wonders, but the artist’s creations are revealed as fragile digital illusions – and nature will have its revenge

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Dürer painted himself at centre of Renaissance altarpiece in revenge, research finds

Exclusive: Cambridge academic’s study of surviving letters shows pay row with wealthy patron

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An artistic phenomenon: how Albrecht Dürer revolutionised the world of design

In the first major exhibition of its Dürer collection in half a century, the Manchester’s Whitworth is showcasing game-changing art by the German artist – and the objects that inspired him

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Albrecht Dürer review – a precisely printed world of medieval monsters and wild men

Dürer worked half a millennium ago but his meticulous images are strangely modern

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Self-Made by Tara Isabella Burton review – selfie society

An insightful romp through the cult of celebrity, from Da Vinci to the Kardashians

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The great face off: 16 of the most wonderful portraits ever painted

As the National Portrait Gallery prepares for its grand reopening this week, critics, artists and curators pick their favourite works from 500 years of portraiture

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Your mullet is more than a haircut, it's a political statement – a hair historian explains

From Paul Mescal at the Baftas to Emma Corrin’s Governors Awards “mixie” haircut, the 1970s-inspired shaggy mullet is everywhere. But the now-popular “business up front and party in the back” style has a political history stretching far beyond the red carpet and the influence of pop icons such as David…

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Radically romantic Rossettis, female impressionists and whisky – the week in art

Preraphaelite sensuality gets complex at the Tate, the great Berthe Morisot wins her due and Northumberland distils Anglo-Saxon history – all in your weekly dispatch

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Stephen Cripps: In Real Life; Lindsay Seers and Keith Sargent: Cold Light review – dreams and visions

A homage to the fleeting, fiery performances of a mysterious, original artist is a natural accompaniment to a riveting exploration of connection and association

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Whales and walruses: our cruel fascination with stranded sealife

Outrage over fate of Freya the walrus has exposed man’s inability to cope with marine mammals that go aground

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If These Beautiful Ornaments Could Speak

“The Clamor of Ornament,” a dazzling new exhibition at the Drawing Center, gathers nearly 200 drawings, etchings, photographs, tunics and weavings to tell a complicated story, one that spans five centuries, about cultural exchange and appropriation. The curators define ornament as “embellishment, surface or structural, that can be lifted from…

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To read or not to read? Is that the question?

In June this year, a six-month-old interview went viral.

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Dürer in Birmingham, Hockney in Normandy and a not-so-hot climate crisis show – the week in art

Stunning works from Renaissance grandee Albrecht Dürer, David Hockney’s French spring scenes and the Royal Academy’s dull take on global heating

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