Each week, the Guardian Weekend magazine’s editorial team choose a picture, or set of pictures, that particularly tickle their fancy. This week, their choice is Carlotta Cardana’s Mod Couples
The American artist Ellen Gallagher is admired to the point of reverence on the other side of the Atlantic. Her distinctive combination of politics and prettiness has been catnip for collectors and critics alike these last 20 years.
Photograph: courtesy of Gagosian
Rubber Duck by Dutch conceptual artist Florentijn Hofman floats in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong. The 16.5-metre-high inflatable sculpture will be shown at the Ocean terminal for a month.
Photograph: Bobby Yip/ Reuters
A couple of cool photos from our picture desk live blog:
A visitor reacts as she poses for a photograph in an art installation entitled “You and Me” in Beijing’s 798 art area. Photograph: Jason Lee/Reuters
A British Airways crew member poses on an artwork made up of thousands of individual items that are found on a jumbo jet. From toilet rolls to teaspoons, British Airways loads 27,260 individual items on to each jumbo jet before it takes to the skies. With a combined weight of 6,120kg, the items have to be unloaded and re-loaded before every take-off. Photograph: Geoff Caddick/PA
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Andy Warhol: Self-portrait in Drag, 1981.
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Dutch artist Ruud van Empel’s digital collages of children in tropical surroundings are eerily beautiful and decidedly unreal
Read more. Photograph: Courtesy: Flatland Gallery, Amsterdam
The Leopold Museum in Vienna opens its doors to a group of nude men for a preview of a new exhibition. The group were the first members of the public to see the gallery’s Nackte Männer or Naked Men art show
Halid, who is 10, must be one of the bravest people I am ever likely to meet…
Illustration: George Butler
Scenes from Syria, illustrated by George Butler – in pictures
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