#GeorgeSaunders on ghosts, mortality and Trump’s America. The Lincoln in the Bardo author is back with another metaphysical tale. He discusses Buddhism, partisan politics and the terrifying flight that changed his life www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j... 📚

A new exhibition at the NY Historical museum looks at the #immigrant experience in #NewYorkCity through a range of revealing and diverse viewpoints, with more than 100 photographs and objects showing how the city has been shaped by people from across the globe www.theguardian.com/us-news/gall...

‘Love can be an addiction’: #NanGoldin’s Ballad of Sexual Dependency. For the first time in the UK, the photographer’s magnum opus is going on display in its entirety. Here, she looks back at the ‘fearlessness and wildness’ of her life and times www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... #photography

Ian McKellen to star as LS Lowry in documentary revealing trove of unheard tapes. Artist reminisces about his life in film using interviews recorded in last four years of his life www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

#Bronx #dog-walkers in the rubble of a dangerous New York: #CamiloJoséVergara’s best photograph. ‘Huge parts of the city were being destroyed. This was part of my attempt to preserve the whole damn thing. The area became a juvenile prison’ www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... #photography

‘I knew these photos wouldn’t be published for decades’. In 1969, #ArthurTress started making images at an overgrown corner of Central Park known as the Ramble – the beginning of an archive of a transitional period in queer culture www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... #photography

#Bronx #dog-walkers in the rubble of a dangerous New York: #CamiloJoséVergara’s best photograph. ‘Huge parts of the city were being destroyed. This was part of my attempt to preserve the whole damn thing. The area became a juvenile prison’ www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... #photography

‘I knew these photos wouldn’t be published for decades’. In 1969, #ArthurTress started making images at an overgrown corner of Central Park known as the Ramble – the beginning of an archive of a transitional period in queer culture www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... #photography

What does your #car say about you? A global portrait of people and their rides, from Shanghai to Santa Monica. You can tell a lot about someone from the vehicle they drive, as #MartinRoemers’ collection of photographs show. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... #photography

#Monochrome marvels: LensCulture’s best black-and-white #photography. A brutal nomadic sport, quiet childhood reveries and stark human endurance define the photographs that wowed this year’s judges www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

#MarkRuffalo’s howl of frustration was the #GoldenGlobes’ finest hour. The actor’s sober note of sanity on Sunday night was the latest courageous move from a man who seems more invested in activism than acting www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...

‘A very tough moment’: how #Trump has put #museums in jeopardy. A study has shown the devastating impact of arts funding cuts on institutions across America and many within the industry are concerned for what’s next www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

#Afghan #women in the #UK: Over four years have passed since the #Taliban returned to power in #Afghanistan. #ClaudiaJanke’s photographic series features 7 Afghan women who have found safety in the UK after escaping at great personal risk. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... #photography

#Human activity helped make 2025 third- #hottest year on record, experts say. Data leads scientists to declare 2015 Paris agreement to keep #globalheating below 1.5C ‘dead in the water’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Don’t look down! Lightbulb-changers on Clifton Suspension Bridge: #Beezer’s best photograph. ‘I have outtakes of them all standing up – there’s no safety equipment and they’re not hanging on to anything. They just said to me, “Hurry up, Beez!”’ www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... #photography

#NeroBookAwards: #BenjaminWood and #SarahPerry among prize winners. Wood wins the award for fiction for his ‘utterly immersive’ novel Seascraper while Perry picks up the nonfiction prize for her memoir Death of an Ordinary Man www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j... 📚

#Afghan #women in the #UK: Over four years have passed since the #Taliban returned to power in #Afghanistan. #ClaudiaJanke’s photographic series features 7 Afghan women who have found safety in the UK after escaping at great personal risk. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... #photography

‘A very tough moment’: how #Trump has put #museums in jeopardy. A study has shown the devastating impact of arts funding cuts on institutions across America and many within the industry are concerned for what’s next www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

#MarkRuffalo’s howl of frustration was the #GoldenGlobes’ finest hour. The actor’s sober note of sanity on Sunday night was the latest courageous move from a man who seems more invested in activism than acting www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...

#Monochrome marvels: LensCulture’s best black-and-white #photography. A brutal nomadic sport, quiet childhood reveries and stark human endurance define the photographs that wowed this year’s judges www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

What does your #car say about you? A global portrait of people and their rides, from Shanghai to Santa Monica. You can tell a lot about someone from the vehicle they drive, as #MartinRoemers’ collection of photographs show. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... #photography

Exit Party, by Emily St. John Mandel Sep 15, 2026 bookshop.org/p/books/exit...

#JeffWall’s Post-Truth #Photography. His constructed images feel especially relevant as we navigate AI and questions about photographic reliability. hyperallergic.com/jeff-wall-po...

Collecting Modernist Mailboxes in Paris. IG romainlaprade www.instagram.com/p/DRrOltiDESt/

Mistletoe sellers in Paris, 1928

A Spanish imperial eagle makes a beeline for the camera in Toledo, Spain. Found only in areas of Spain and Portugal, the eagle has a wingspan that can reach more than 7ft (2.1 metres) Photograph: Tomas Calle/NurPhoto/Shutterstock

A deer grazes while the full moon rises over the New York City skyline at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey, US Photograph: Derek French/Shutterstock

Naked ambition: the groundbreaking #photomontages of #ZofiaKulik. In her complex works, the Polish artist manipulates images of male nudes to comment on masculine power-plays and female emancipation www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... #womensart

Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem. lithub.com/renee-nicole...

#Trump’s assault on the #Smithsonian: ‘The goal is to reframe the entire culture of the US’. The president has vowed to kill off ‘woke’ in his second term in office, and the venerable cultural institution a few blocks from the White House is in his sights www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘I don’t need international law’: Trump says power constrained only by ‘my own morality’. President says morality ‘the only thing that can stop me’ in New York Times interview on limits to his authority www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘Extraordinary’ #ironage war #trumpet find in Britain may have #Boudicca links. Bronze instrument or #carnyx dug up in Norfolk in area inhabited by Celtic tribe led by warrior who fought Romans www.theguardian.com/science/2026... #Archaeology

#RheaSeehorn breaks down why 'The Left Hand of Darkness' is so important to #Pluribus www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...

#Women behind the lens: six of our most striking images from 2025. A few of our favourite photographs taken by women from the global south and capturing moments of everyday life and art www.theguardian.com/global-devel... #photography

Viridescent, Afire: Drawing on a myriad of sources, #MałgorzataStankiewicz weaves together text, cyanotypes & satellite images into a poetic, immersive publication that tells the complex & urgent story of rising algal bloom in the #BalticSea www.lensculture.com/articles/mal... #photography

Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2026. 314 Books To Read in the New Year lithub.com/lit-hubs-mos... 📚

#Women behind the lens: six of our most striking images from 2025. A few of our favourite photographs taken by women from the global south and capturing moments of everyday life and art www.theguardian.com/global-devel... #photography

Viridescent, Afire: Drawing on a myriad of sources, #MałgorzataStankiewicz weaves together text, cyanotypes & satellite images into a poetic, immersive publication that tells the complex & urgent story of rising algal bloom in the #BalticSea www.lensculture.com/articles/mal... #photography

Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2026. 314 Books To Read in the New Year lithub.com/lit-hubs-mos... 📚

‘There is a crack in everything’: How do you photograph #darkness? A question #SarahLee considers with her work as the nights draw in www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... #photography

#Aliens: #ErikIrmer has been documenting the spread of #invasive #plant and #animal species that disrupt native ecology across Europe. He focuses on humans’ interactions with these plants and animals www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... #photography

Beach Epiphany. Walking #MiamiBeach, #RodrigoKoraicho collects moments full of life to weave together a tapestry of humanity—equal parts joyful, intimate, alienating, and absurd—under the hot Florida sun. www.lensculture.com/articles/rod... #photography

More than 7,500 Prints and Negatives by Trailblazing Photographer #AliceAusten Return Home www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/06/alic... #photography

Switzerland Beyond the Postcard: Street #Photography Full of Human Spark. #PelinGuven invites the viewer to take a closer look at tiny bursts of color & the overlooked details of daily life in Switzerland where creativity sprouts in response to order & convention www.lensculture.com/articles/pel...

Beach Epiphany. Walking #MiamiBeach, #RodrigoKoraicho collects moments full of life to weave together a tapestry of humanity—equal parts joyful, intimate, alienating, and absurd—under the hot Florida sun. www.lensculture.com/articles/rod... #photography

#Aliens: #ErikIrmer has been documenting the spread of #invasive #plant and #animal species that disrupt native ecology across Europe. He focuses on humans’ interactions with these plants and animals www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... #photography

Switzerland Beyond the Postcard: Street #Photography Full of Human Spark. #PelinGuven invites the viewer to take a closer look at tiny bursts of color & the overlooked details of daily life in Switzerland where creativity sprouts in response to order & convention www.lensculture.com/articles/pel...

‘There is a crack in everything’: How do you photograph #darkness? A question #SarahLee considers with her work as the nights draw in www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... #photography

‘The sight of it is still shocking’: Did the 21st century begin on 1 January 2000? Or was it that blue sky day in September 2001 when the planes hit the twin towers? These images from the last 25 years chronicle modern history in the making www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... #photography