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A gallery glow up, spooky sculpture and a magical modern – the week in art
By Jonathan Jones

A grand survey of light art illuminates Durham, St Ives gets macabre and London goes big on land art – all in your weekly dispatch

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/aug/28/the-week-in-art-yayoi-kusama

#Artanddesign #Culture #Painting #Photography #Art #Exhibitions #TheGuardian #JonathanJones

Marty Gleeson: Dog Ear review – hangdog standup with an unexpected request for Santa
By Brian Logan

Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Even one of her own bugs takes the mic as the wild card comedian delivers these disconnected bits

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/aug/28/marty-gleeson-dog-ear-review-pleasance-courtyard-edinburgh

#Edinburghfestival2026 #Comedy #Comedy #Culture #Edinburghfestival #Stage #Artanddesign #TheGuardian #BrianLogan

Thieves steal bronze age treasure in four-minute museum heist in Spain https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/aug/27/thieves-steal-bronze-age-treasure-of-villena-in-four-minute-heist #ArtTheft #Museums #Spain #Europe #Culture #WorldNews #Heritage #ArtAndDesign #OrganisedCrime

Yayoi Kusama’s psychedelic art was at its best when taken in high doses https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/aug/27/yayoi-kusama-art #YayoiKusama #ArtAndDesign #Culture #Installation #Art

‘I fight pain and fear with art’: how Yayoi Kusama blazed a trail for neurodivergent artists
By Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

The pioneering Japanese artist talked openly about how her mental health and neurodivergence informed her creativity, paving the way for the likes of Turner prize winner Nnena Kalu

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/aug/27/i-fight-pain-and-fear-with-art-how-yayoi-kusama-blazed-a-trail-for-neurodivergent-artists

#YayoiKusama #Artanddesign #Mentalhealth #Art #Painting #Installation #Neurodiversity #Culture #Health #TheGuardian #RhiannonLucyCosslett

Thieves steal bronze age Treasure of Villena in four-minute heist
By Agence France-Presse

Most of 50-piece Spanish gold collection worth at least €1.7m stolen in latest high-profile European raid

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/aug/27/thieves-steal-bronze-age-treasure-of-villena-in-four-minute-heist

#Museums #Spain #Europe #Culture #Worldnews #Arttheft #Heritage #Artanddesign #TheGuardian #AgenceFrancePresse

Yayoi Kusama’s psychedelic art was at its best when taken in high doses
By Jonathan Jones

With dots that dizzied the viewer, the giddy sensory overload of seeing the grandest installations of her octopuses and giant pumpkins was hard to resist

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/aug/27/yayoi-kusama-art

#YayoiKusama #Artanddesign #Culture #Installation #Art #TheGuardian #JonathanJones

Share your tributes and memories of Yayoi Kusama
By Guardian community team

We would like to hear your tributes and memories of artist Yayoi Kusama – whether you met her, or appreciated her work

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/aug/27/share-your-tributes-and-memories-of-artist-yayoi-kusama

#YayoiKusama #Artanddesign #Culture #TheGuardian #Guardiancommunityteam

‘The technique was revolutionary’: Ha Chong-Hyun, the 91-year-old South Korean artist who turned painting inside out
By Gabrielle Schwarz

In his trailblazing work, paint is pushed through the back of hemp to create spare, striking paintings. Abstraction is a form of rebellion, he says – and he has no intention of slowing down

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/aug/27/ha-chong-hyun-artist-interview-conjunction-lisson-gallery-exhibition-london

#Art #Artanddesign #Culture #Exhibitions #TheGuardian #GabrielleSchwarz

‘I am so tired’: Jill Edelstein’s devastating portraits of apartheid and more – in pictures
By Guardian Staff

The South African photographer documented her country’s harrowing Truth and Reconciliation Commission. These pictures form part of a new exhibition – alongside intimate images of actors, artists and friends

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2026/aug/27/jill-edelstein-portrait-apartheid-among-people

#Photography #Artanddesign #Culture #Exhibitions #Edinburghfestival #SouthAfrica #NelsonMandela #TheGuardian #GuardianStaff

The Nazis drove Bauhaus out of town. Now the far right is waging another war against the movement
By Deborah Cole in Dessau-Roßlau

Poll to take place in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, where Bauhaus blossomed a century ago – and where AfD is promising ‘patriotic culture policy’ if it wins

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/27/the-nazis-drove-bauhaus-out-of-town-now-the-far-right-is-waging-another-war-against-the-movement

#Germany #Bauhaus #Thefarright #AlternativefrDeutschlandAfD #Artanddesign #Europe #TheGuardian #DeborahColeinDessauRolau

The flat-pack skyscraper: how wood can shape the cities of the future
By James Crawford

Our buildings are monuments to extraction and extreme emissions. But what if we turned from destructive concrete to timber?

https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/aug/27/the-flat-pack-skyscraper-how-wood-can-shape-the-cities-of-the-future

#Greenbuilding #Norway #Skyscrapers #Architecture #Europe #Cities #Environment #Treesandforests #Artanddesign #Climatecrisis #Constructionindustry #Greenhousegasemissions #TheGuardian #JamesCrawford

The flat-pack skyscraper: how wood can shape the cities of the future https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/aug/27/the-flat-pack-skyscraper-how-wood-can-shape-the-cities-of-the-future #GreenBuilding #Norway #Skyscrapers #Architecture #Europe #Cities #Environment #TreesAndForests #ArtAndDesign #ClimateCrisis #ConstructionIndustry #GreenhouseGasEmissions

Yayoi Kusama, Japanese artist who became a global superstar, dies aged 97 https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/aug/27/yayoi-kusama-dies-aged-97-artist-dead #YayoiKusama #ArtAndDesign #Culture #Japan #AsiaPacific #NewYork #UsNews #WorldNews

Yayoi Kusama, Japanese artist who became a global superstar, dies aged 97
By Tim Jonze

From the 1950s to the 2020s, Kusama produced vivid paintings, sculptures and vast installations that often drew on her experience of hallucinations

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/aug/27/yayoi-kusama-dies-aged-97-artist-dead

#YayoiKusama #Artanddesign #Culture #Japan #AsiaPacific #NewYork #USnews #Worldnews #TheGuardian #TimJonze

A Ugandan quarry worker carrying rocks on her head: Dan Nelken’s best photograph
By Interview by Chris Broughton

‘Janet had eight children. Her husband drove a boda-boda taxi, but had lost a leg – so she had been working in her local quarry for 10 years. “I am now the husband in this home,” she said’

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/aug/26/ugandan-quarry-worker-rocks-head-dan-nelken-photograph

#Artanddesign #Culture #Uganda #Photography #TheGuardian #InterviewbyChrisBroughton

‘An act of resistance’: Baltimore’s holdout homes – in pictures https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2026/aug/26/baltimore-holdout-homes-ben-marcin-in-pictures #Photography #ArtAndDesignBooks #Housing #ArtAndDesign #Culture #Books #Society #Art #Maryland #Delaware #Architecture

‘An act of resistance’: Baltimore’s holdout homes – in pictures
By Guardian Staff

Ben Marcin’s stunning photographs show lone houses, derelict homes and makeshift camps that stand as epitaphs to past lives and offer insight into how Americans on the margins live

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2026/aug/26/baltimore-holdout-homes-ben-marcin-in-pictures

#Photography #Artanddesignbooks #Housing #Artanddesign #Culture #Books #Society #Art #Maryland #Delaware #Architecture #TheGuardian #GuardianStaff

‘The whole world is becoming rightwing and anti-gay’: William Yang on 60 years of capturing LGBTQ+ life
By Oliver Giles

Yang has taken more than 500,000 photographs since he first moved to Sydney in the late 1960s and now devotes most of his time to untangling the past

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/ng-interactive/2026/aug/25/sydney-photographer-william-yang-on-60-years-capturing-lgbtq-life-ntwnfb

#Photography #Australianart #Artanddesign #Art #Culture #LGBTQrights #TheGuardian #OliverGiles

The cat that fought Mussolini: how the Wulz photography sisters weaponised the family pet
By Joanna Moorhead

Wanda and Marion Wulz defied the unbridled patriarchy of fascist Italy by shooting dancers, fencers and other famous women – as well as their cat Mucincina

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/aug/25/cat-mussolini-wulz-photography-sisters

#Photography #Culture #Artanddesign #Italy #TheGuardian #JoannaMoorhead

Artist known for sculptures of Mao Zedong jailed for slandering ‘heroes and martyrs’
By Danny Vincent in Taipei

Gao Zhen sentenced to three years in prison after already spending two years in detention

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/25/artist-gao-zhen-sculptures-mao-zedong-jailed-china

#China #Censorship #MaoZedong #Artanddesign #AsiaPacific #Worldnews #Culture #TheGuardian #DannyVincentinTaipei

Artist known for sculptures of Mao Zedong jailed for slandering ‘heroes and martyrs’ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/25/artist-gao-zhen-sculptures-mao-zedong-jailed-china #China #Censorship #MaoZedong #ArtAndDesign #AsiaPacific #WorldNews #Culture

Climate-saving wonder – or €240m vanity bauble that ages like milk? The rocks set to hit Rotterdam docks
By Catherine Slessor

MVRDV – the firm behind Marble Arch Mound – says Rotterdam ROCKS! will inspire visitors to live sustainably. But in an era when the greenest building is the one that already exists, this tottering cairn looks set to misfire

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/aug/25/rotterdam-rocks-mvrdv

#Architecture #Artanddesign #Culture #Netherlands #Climatecrisis #Regeneration #Environment #TheGuardian #CatherineSlessor

Climate-saving wonder – or €240m vanity bauble that ages like milk? The rocks set to hit Rotterdam docks https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/aug/25/rotterdam-rocks-mvrdv #Architecture #ArtAndDesign #Culture #Netherlands #ClimateCrisis #Regeneration #Environment

‘My way to escape reality’: LensCulture street photography awards 2026 winners – in pictures
By Guardian Staff

From pre-dawn Vietnam to cats scaling walls, the scenes in these prize-winning photographs show how the everyday can become mysterious, poetic and surreal

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2026/aug/25/lensculture-street-photography-awards-2026-winners-in-pictures

#Photography #Artanddesign #Awardsandprizes #Culture #Art #TheGuardian #GuardianStaff

Clowns, archangels and fake heads: Nairobi’s anime convention – in pictures
By Josy Forsdike

Organised by Movie Jabber, the annual Otamatsuri is Africa’s only comic-con festival. Over the two-day event, people dressed in costumes and accessories gather at Carnivore Grounds in Kenya’s capital to celebrate creative arts, gaming tournaments and comic book culture

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2026/aug/25/clowns-archangels-and-fake-heads-nairobi-anime-convention-in-pictures

#Photography #Kenya #Anime #Manga #Africa #Artanddesign #Comicsandgraphicnovels #Culture #TheGuardian #JosyForsdike

The ear witness: Turner-winner Lawrence Abu Hamdan and his ‘sound evidence’ exposés of human rights abuses
By Charlotte Higgins

From killings in Gaza to the alleged use of a sonic weapon on a vigil in Belgrade, the Lebanese-British artist reveals how his work for activist group Earshot is inseparable from his art

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/aug/25/ear-witness-turner-winner-lawrence-abu-hamdan-earshot-sound-evidence-exposees-of-human-rights-abuses

#Artanddesign #Culture #ForensicArchitecture #Humanrights #Gaza #Syria #Worldnews #TheGuardian #CharlotteHiggins

Freddie Mercury’s ‘splendid things’ to go on display at V&A
By Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent

Eight costumes spanning Queen frontman’s career will feature in a free trail developed with his former fiancee

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/aug/25/freddie-mercury-splendid-things-costumes-victoria-albert-museum-queen-v-and-a

#FreddieMercury #Queen #VA #Artanddesign #Culture #Museums #London #Popandrock #Music #Fashion #UKnews #Exhibitions #Lifeandstyle #Mensfashion #TheGuardian #NadiaKhomamiArts #culturecorrespondent

Freddie Mercury’s ‘splendid things’ to go on display at V&A https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/aug/25/freddie-mercury-splendid-things-costumes-victoria-albert-museum-queen-v-and-a #FreddieMercury #Queen #Va #ArtAndDesign #Culture #Museums #London #PopAndRock #Music #Fashion #UkNews #Exhibitions #LifeAndStyle #MensFashion

Women Photograph announces 2026 grant recipients – in pictures https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2026/aug/24/women-photograph-leica-grantees-for-2026-in-pictures #Photography #ArtAndDesign #Culture #China #AsiaPacific #WorldNews