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Jesse Rieser’s best photograph: footballers say goodbye to the game
‘I’ve had hip surgery once, shoulder surgery twice, my left knee needs replacing and my back is ruined. This was their farewell to football – and mine too’
Read more » | Desktop version »Sex, drugs and social media – Hooked review
Science Gallery, LondonSugar, shopping, cash, drugs, booze and smartphones … this great show details how artists have responded – and succumbed – to addictive vices down the ages
Read more » | Desktop version »The Royal Opera House opens up: high culture's icy palace lets the people in for a drink
Architects Stanton Williams have carved out new spaces in the Covent Garden building – adding access, views and a reborn Linbury theatre.
Read more » | Desktop version »Master of gore: the violent, shocking genius of Jusepe de Ribera
From skinned saints to Inquisition torturers, Jusepe de Ribera turned human cruelty into breathtaking works of art. Why isn’t he as celebrated as Caravaggio or Goya?
Read more » | Desktop version »Disputed ownership of Citizen Lane’s art | Letter
Letter: Ownership of 39 paintings collected by Hugh Lane in the early years of the 20th century is disputed because of a codicil to his will leaving the paintings to found a gallery of modern art in Dublin, writes the historian Roy Foster
Read more » | Desktop version »Knock Knock review – 'I like a laugh as much as the next miserable critic!'
South London GalleryThere are old jokes, new jokes, even Welsh sheep jokes. But the real star of this show about humour in art is the rescued fire station much of it is housed in
Read more » | Desktop version »Museum of Broken Windows: artists on the dangers of racial profiling
In a new exhibition, artists consider how a controversial policy of stop-and-frisk targeting people of color has affected their lives and those around them
Read more » | Desktop version »Zina Saro-Wiwa: 'For 10 years I didn't cry about my father'
The Nigerian artist has her first solo show in London. She talks food, family and the forest that her father, the environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, gave his life to protect
Read more » | Desktop version »Sailor's rape confession uncovered in 17th-century journal
National Maritime Museum discovers concealed note in Edward Barlow’s diary
Read more » | Desktop version »Strictly analogue: Polaroid's past, present and future - a photo essay
Guardian photographer Christian Sinibaldi tours the world’s last Polaroid film factory, in the Netherlands, the only remaining factory still making film for the much-loved instant cameras
Read more » | Desktop version »Everything is connected: new exhibition on art and conspiracy
Artwork addressing mistrust in the government from the late 60s to the modern day is celebrated in a collection that ‘can inform the present in interesting ways’
Read more » | Desktop version »Courtauld Impressionists: From Manet to Cézanne review – revolution pure and simple
Samuel Courtauld’s lifelong collection of impressionist and post-impressionist masterpieces spark off each other in an enthralling collaboration
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