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From Love Me Tender to Kevin Bridges: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
NEWS | 10 August 2026
Chilean director Maite Alberdi’s factual account is interwoven with a telling of the story from the perpetrator’s point of view. Catherine BrayGoing out: GigsView image in fullscreen Urine for a treat … Joji. John FordhamGoing out: ArtView image in fullscreen Figures of fun … Kira Freije’s Unspeak the Chorus. Eddy FrankelGoing out: StageView image in fullscreen Between the sheets … Alan Cumming and Shirley Henderson in rehearsals for A History of Paper. Preview latest Enter your email Sign up after newsletter promotionStaying in: StreamingView image in fullscreen Tunnel vision … Warren’s Vortex.

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The week around the world in 20 pictures
NEWS | 10 August 2026
The week around the world in 20 picturesWildfires in the US and Europe, Russian strikes in Kyiv, beekeepers in Gaza and the European Aquatics Championships – the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalistsAn athlete jumps from the women’s 20m platform during the European Aquatics Championships in Paris. Photograph: Julien de Rosa/AFP/Getty Images

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NEWS | 10 August 2026
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Portrait of a City review – master photographers capture the US cityscape in all its grime, grit and glory
NEWS | 10 August 2026
All the greats are here: Ilse Bing, Mary Ellen Mark, Diane Arbus, Saul Leiter, Richard Avedon, among others. View image in fullscreen All the greats are here … Mary Ellen Mark’s 1987 The Damm Family in Their Car. Photograph: Mary Ellen Mark/Mary Ellen Mark FoundationA series of short film pieces offer other interpretations. View image in fullscreen Moments only a city can yield … Arthur Leipzig’s 1948 Divers, East River. The exhibition as a whole retells the American narrative of the city – almost all of the photographers here are first- or second-generation European immigrants.

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Entangled and Woven review – exquisitely spun textiles that cross borders, culture and time
NEWS | 10 August 2026
That is to say, how many artisans, craftspeople, weavers and artists’ hands did these pieces pass through? Take Entangled Memories, Interwoven Stories by Péro for example: it was made by 50 artisans and took 18,000 hours to complete. These many hands and hours make Entangled and Woven an exquisitely beautiful exhibition. Somi Ko’s People of One, Moment is a series of figures on Indian cotton made using traditional Indian mirror work. It is also the perfect symbol of what has happened – joyously – in Entangled and Woven: cultures combining to make the most striking works of art.

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Madelon Vriesendorp review – sex-crazed visions of skyscrapers copulating
NEWS | 10 August 2026
Photograph: courtesy of Madelon VriesendorpIn 1975, Vriesendorp co-founded OMA – the Office of Metropolitan Architecture – with Koolhaas and Elia and Zoe Zenghelis. In another of her sexed-up dreams, Manhattan itself becomes a bed floating among phallic half-sunken skyscrapers in a post-coital apocalyptic reverie. View image in fullscreen Cardboard figures play Critical Pursuit Home Analyses Kit by Madelon Vriesendorp. Photograph: courtesy of the artistYet while rampant skyscrapers are all very well, that was then and this is now. View image in fullscreen Vriesendorp takes a witty approach to the climate crisis in sculptures made from recycled materials.

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New faces, fresh memories and a grand day out with Aardman – the week in art
NEWS | 10 August 2026
Exhibition of the weekCatherine Opie: To Be SeenPowerful photographs that put people before you heroically, on tour from London’s National Portrait Gallery. Inverleith House, Edinburgh, until 1 NovemberVestigesPaintings by the talented and imaginative Laura Footes feature in this group show about memory. Annely Juda Fine Art, London, until 28 AugustInside AardmanThe geniuses of British animation invite you for a slice of wensleydale in the summer holidays. Young V&A, London, until 15 NovemberFfasiwnYoung people work with artists Clémentine Schneidermann and Charlotte James to deconstruct fashion. Scottish National Gallery, Edinburghskip past newsletter promotion Free newsletter | Weekly Sign up to Art Weekly Your weekly art world round-up, sketching out all the biggest stories, scandals and exhibitions Preview latest Enter your email Sign up after newsletter promotionSign up to the Art Weekly newsletterIf you don’t already receive our regular roundup of art and design news via email, please sign up here.

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Photographs of drama and emotion – the career of Chris Smith
NEWS | 10 August 2026
Photographs of drama and emotion – the career of Chris SmithThe late photographer has left behind memorable images of many of the larger-than-life characters who peopled the last four decades of the 20th century: Muhammad Ali, Paul Gascoigne, John McEnroe, Martina Navratilova, Aretha Franklin, Seve Ballesteros and Daley Thompson

This Just In:
Chris Smith obituary
NEWS | 10 August 2026
When the Beatles waltzed unannounced into the 5th Street Gym in Miami Beach in 1964, the sports photographer Chris Smith seized the moment. When a squall momentarily whipped Seve’s waterproof across his body, Smith shot one frame that immortalised the Spaniard’s crushing disappointment and frustration. Photograph: Chris Smith/Popperfoto/Getty ImagesSmith would always turn up to events early, to try to outwit his photographic opposition. Smith was born in Hartlepool, County Durham, to Jennie (nee Vale) and Thomas Smith, a dock worker. Christopher Smith, photographer, born 27 December 1937; died 28 June 2026

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Samba queens to sound systems: the riotous streets of Notting Hill carnival – in pictures
NEWS | 10 August 2026
Samba queens to sound systems: the riotous streets of Notting Hill carnival – in picturesWayne Campbell and Wayne Crichlow have been photographing carnival for 15 years, capturing a blur of dancers, style icons and singalongs on the tube home‘Elegant and in control’ … Samba Queen by Wayne Campbell

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Le Corbusier’s social housing was meant to be the dream. In a summer of extreme heat, it is a nightmare | Anna Richards
NEWS | 10 August 2026
On the top of a hill, however, stands Firminy’s pride: l’Unité d’Habitation, an imposing tower of concrete designed by Le Corbusier. “I slept on the floor because it was the only place I could stay cool,” says Aurélie Mohamed, who has lived in l’Unité d’Habitation for five years. “My godmother was one of the original residents of Le Corbusier, and I can remember coming here aged nine,” Chantal Hospital tells me. This class element is even more apparent in Firminy, where the Le Corbusier site, including parts of l’Unité d’Habitation, is also a tourist attraction. But the Fondation Le Corbusier only discussed the increasing impact of heatwaves on the various Le Corbusier sites this year, one board member said.

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Australia’s best sustainable architecture for 2026 – in pictures
NEWS | 10 August 2026
Australia’s best sustainable architecture for 2026 – in picturesThis year’s finalists for the National Architecture awards’ sustainability category include a compact Canberra housing development and the largest commercial use of hempcrete in the country. Architecture ‘holds a mirror up to who we are as a society – what we value, what we’re willing to invest in, what we want to leave behind,’ says Adam Haddow, the chair of the jury for the awards. ‘The architects on this list … [have] designed buildings built to last, not just physically, but in the way they’ll continue to serve people long after the ribbon is cut’

Current Events:
Foster + Partners cleared over man’s death when window fell from London penthouse
NEWS | 10 August 2026
The architecture firm founded by Norman Foster has been cleared over the death of a man killed by a window that fell 90 metres from a newly constructed London penthouse. View image in fullscreen The jury was told the designers should have considered the risk of the outward-opening, side-hung windows. Photograph: Nick Ansell/PAThe court heard that just over a year earlier a window panel had also fallen from the same development. After more than 11 hours of deliberation the jury cleared F+P and the building’s design engineer, Wintech. It was only after Ferris’s death that the window design was changed back to inward-opening, the court heard.

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