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From Bilbao to Las Vegas: Frank Gehry’s incredible architecture – in pictures
NEWS | 06 December 2025
From Bilbao to Las Vegas: Frank Gehry’s incredible architecture – in picturesThe award-winning designer and architect leaves behind unique buildings all across the world from Dundee to Düsseldorf. He died after a brief respiratory illness at the age of 96Frank Gehry, legendary Canadian-American architect, dies aged 96

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Frank Gehry, legendary Canadian-American architect, dies aged 96
NEWS | 06 December 2025
Frank Gehry, one of the most influential and distinctive talents in American architecture, died on Friday at his home in Los Angeles following a brief respiratory illness, his chief of staff confirmed. Photograph: George Rose/Getty ImagesBorn Frank Owen Goldberg on 28 February 1929, to a working-class Jewish family in Toronto, Canada, Gehry was a relatively late bloomer as an architect. He moved to Los Angeles in the mid-1940s, where he attended the University of Southern California, studying ceramics, after a brief stint in the US army. “I love working,” he told the Guardian shortly after his 90th birthday. “I love working things out.

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NEWS | 06 December 2025
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Saodat Ismailova: As We Fade review – prepare to enter an unforgettably strange psychic dreamspace
NEWS | 06 December 2025
Your heart almost stops the moment you enter Saodat Ismailova’s As We Fade. The Baltic has curated a concise, brave first solo exhibition in the UK of film pieces by the Uzbek artist and film-maker. Ismailova felt this deeply – her father was a cinematographer and she was on sets with him from a young age. Ismailova’s film is visceral, poetic, avant garde but intelligible, deeply rooted in a time and place yet without boundaries. after newsletter promotionView image in fullscreen Kashpirovsky attempts to hypnotise the nation in a still from Ismailova’s Swan Lake, 2025.

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Seriously review – headstands, bananas and a dog watching porn reveal photography’s silly side
NEWS | 06 December 2025
View image in fullscreen Spicy feminist humour … Seriously at Sprüth Magers, London. Photograph: Courtesy of the artist and Sperone Westwater, New YorkIt’s great when artists don’t take themselves too seriously. Conceptual art is often ridiculous, so it doesn’t take much to turn its bombast and pompousness into a joke. With playfulness and wit, conceptual artists pushed photography past the documentary into a less stable, more experimental place. But can conceptual art make you belly laugh?

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SPONSORED | 06 December 2025
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Tala Madani: Daughter BWASM review – filthy pot shots from a bad mum and her AI offspring
NEWS | 06 December 2025
For years now the Iranian-born US artist has been painting Shit Mom, a fetid smear of a human figure intended as a subversion of feminine, maternal ideals. And in the painter’s latest show, Shit Mom has a new child in her care: she has adopted an AI daughter. The rub is immediately obvious: the AI robot represents perfection; Shit Mom its impossibility. In another, Shit Mom kneels before her enormous mechanoid child, trying desperately to clean her but only succeeding in tarring her in turd. View image in fullscreen Scatological humour as rebellion … Tala Madani’s Shit Mom Ascending a Staircase.

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The week around the world in 20 pictures
NEWS | 06 December 2025
The week around the world in 20 picturesRussian airstrikes in Kyiv, floods in Colombo, the cold moon in Gaza and Trump at the World Cup draw: the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists

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Daggers, dervishes, Rego and the world’s most expensive egg – the week in art
NEWS | 06 December 2025
British Museum, London, until 26 JulyPaula RegoThis show explores a period when Rego renewed her art with dedicated drawing, partly inspired by the writings of Martin McDonagh. Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, until 17 JanuaryCristina IglesiasMassive sculptures inspired by geology, which look like rugged rock formations by the sea. If you do not have an account, we will create a guest account for you on theguardian.com to send you this newsletter. The more you look, the more it replicates exactly how an artist at that time would wield a fine brush. The National Gallery, LondonSign 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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Magnum photographer Alex Webb’s 2026 Lavazza calendar – in pictures
NEWS | 06 December 2025
Magnum photographer Alex Webb’s 2026 Lavazza calendar – in picturesThe coffee brand Lavazza engaged Alex Webb, a contemporary street photographer from the Magnum Photos agency, for its 2026 calendar, which explores the rich tapestry of elements that make up the Italian lifestyle

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‘They rose out of the ground!’: Scotland’s brutalist beauties – in pictures
NEWS | 06 December 2025
‘They rose out of the ground!’: Scotland’s brutalist beauties – in picturesThe imposing concrete buildings that defined British postwar architecture held a vision of the future – but many fell into disrepair. A new book finds the finest examples

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Six greats reads: a train ride to the future; searching for the ‘sky boys’ and wallaby hunting in the English countryside
NEWS | 06 December 2025
‘It was extremely pornographic’: Cara Hunter on the deepfake video that nearly ended her political career View image in fullscreen Cara Hunter. Photograph: Polly Garnett/The Guardian The Irish politician was targeted in 2022, in the final weeks of her run for office. ‘It would take 11 seconds to hit the ground’: the roughneck daredevils who built the Empire State Building View image in fullscreen A construction worker connects two cables suspended high above New York during the construction of the Empire State Building. Catherine Slessor spoke to the author Glenn Kurtz, who has made it his mission to identify men like “The Sky Boy” who built the Empire State Building, and were captured in the photographs of Lewis W Hine. ‘It moved … it was hopping!’ One man’s search for a wild wallaby in the UK View image in fullscreen Sam Wollaston prepares to go wallaby hunting in Oxhill, Warwickshire.

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Gillian Hopwood obituary
NEWS | 06 December 2025
The architect Gillian Hopwood, who has died aged 98, only recently found recognition in her home country, England, after a career spent since 1954 in Nigeria. As Godwin and Hopwood, she and her husband, John Godwin, worked together as equals in a partnership that long outlasted the larger London-based practices that briefly flourished there in the years leading up to independence in 1960. View image in fullscreen The Christ Church Cathedral school, Lagos, one of Jill’s projects. Jill’s contribution included Christ Church Cathedral school, Surulere School for the Blind and Yaba Model school, all in Lagos. The practice continues in Lagos as Godwin Hopwood Kuye.

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Country Diary: A lonely chapel that whispers and roars
NEWS | 06 December 2025
Two ascending buzzards dazzle against the sun as I climb to St Catherine’s Chapel alone on its hill above the sea. It is the saint’s own feast day (25 November), when women once came to recite a charm for getting married. The traditional wording was blunt: “A husband, St Catherine, a handsome one, St Catherine, a rich one, St Catherine, a nice one, St Catherine, and soon, St Catherine.” Impatient supplicants added in dialect: “arn‑a‑one’s better than narn-a-one” (anyone’s better than no one). View image in fullscreen St Catherine’s Chapel on its hill above Abbotsbury with Chesil Beach and the Isle of Portland visible beyond. This was the wishing place, where maidens would put a knee in one of the wall recesses and their hands in two other holes and whisper to St Catherine.

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SPONSORED | 06 December 2025
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