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Under communism, Polish artists were given freedom to produce posters advertising Hollywood films in a way their makers never dreamed of

In Syria, villagers search under their homes for long-buried gold and jewels. But this is speculation in every sense of the word

For a golden period, the Tuscan hill town ruled the art world. Now its treasures are reassembled in a remarkable exhibition

It took Ernest Bevin and a fear of Soviet expansion to bring Nato to life. Not even the US’s nationalistic retreat from Europe will kill it off

A sumptuously illustrated book of interviews with the director reveals his extraordinary love of the monumental

In the 1990s, Britain fell out of love with its concrete masterpieces – but then it all changed

Photographer Simone Nanetti’s haunting images of Italy’s abandoned nightclubs

With his work for the fashion brand, the late photographer and art director Oliviero Toscani took the trangressive mainstream

Louis XIV built a Xanadu at Versailles – and sealed his family’s fate. But amid the extravagant luxury was thrilling innovation

The next battleground for the French president and Rassemblement National’s leader is the cyclone-hit, French-owned archipelago in the Indian Ocean

Intimate stories and unbreakable bonds in an exhibition of portraits that dig deep into our European ways of life and death

Images of a tumultuous year around the world

Photographer Andrew McConnell set out to record cosmonauts in Kazakhstan – but found the local people infinitely more fascinating

President Macron said Notre Dame would be rebuilt within five years and would be even more beautiful. And so it came to pass

Two stunning exhibitions at the Helmut Newton Foundation celebrate the great photographer and the city he escaped from

A new museum in Giza reminds us of Europe’s deepest origins

Georgia’s disputed election has been hailed as a victory for Vladimir Putin, but murals in the capital paint a different picture

Is a new €1bn infrastructure fund the answer to Europe’s flooding problems? Or is a more drastic plan needed?

The photographer’s extraordinary images of ordinary lives get a new showing in her centenary year

We live in a time of conflict. Stuck in this doom loop of grievance and warfare, is the idea of peace in our time now little more than an impossible dream?

The French photographer took half a million pictures in his life. It took only one to restore his reputation and bring him wealth and controversy

Photographer Christoph Irrgang returns to the sites where masterpieces were painted to see how much they have changed

The dark daring of the extraordinary mid-century comics artist and illustrator, Italy’s answer to Norman Rockwell

The photographer used his camera and the city of lights as a doorway to poetry

The exotic world of James Bond was also that of his creator, Ian Fleming

Ukraine’s invasion of Kursk has exposed yet more flaws at the heart of Russia. Could the dictator’s regime now fall?

Domestic football returns, full of unpredictable plotlines. But there’s one thing you can count on – the fans who make the game will continue to be exploited

Pierpaolo Mittica’s photos capture everyday existence in the ‘new Pompeii’ – close to the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident

The 1924 Olympics featured a future Tarzan, the men who inspired Chariots of Fire and a farewell to the man who created the modern Games.

Lust, love and life: an exhibition about the art of the breast

It is a story that might sound familiar today: 90 years ago a football final was played as the shadow of fascism began to creep over Europe

A new novel that reimagines art’s most toxic relationship and reintroduces the photographer and artist’s legacy to the world