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  • Costumed as a cheering squad member, a man shouts into a megaphone, wearing a headband

    Japan’s Jimi Halloween, a celebration of all things mundane – in pictures

    While Halloween is traditionally a family-oriented holiday and an occasion for children to dress up and go trick-or-treating, a unique spin on spooky season is taking off in Japan. ‘Jimi Halloween’ or ‘Mundane Halloween’ sees adult participants dress up as ordinary people in everyday life. They do highly specific tasks, embracing and celebrating unremarkable situations for the event, hosted by online magazine Daily Portal Z in Tokyo’s Shibuya district.
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  • The photo of Geoffrey Barden and some of the painting men (and child) that first caught Kitty Hauser's attention

    ‘A whitewashing of minds’: the mania and myth of Geoffrey Bardon and the painting men of Papunya

  • landscape showing the frame of a former steel mill converted to a hub for tech, robotics, and advanced manufactoring is surrounded by lush greenery

    Mill 19: a creative hub built into a former steel factory

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  • A young woman in a short fur coat, with bare legs and feet, smoking a cigarette outside a shop with a blond-haired mannequin in the window

    ‘A gust of wind blowing back her hair added something special’: Mark McEvoy’s best phone picture

  • Jeremy Nguyen cartoon pumpkins Yayoi Kusama

    Jeremy Nguyen on a very arty pumpkin – cartoon

  • Wicker (2026)

    From Wicker to Zelda: Ocarina of Time: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

  • The Bridesmaid, by MillaisThe Bridesmaid. Millais, John Everett (British, 1829-1896). Oil on panel, height 27.9 cm, width 20.3 cm, 1851.

    Big hair with the pre-Raphaelites, 17 Orkney stand-outs and night frights in Derry – the week in art

  • A drawing of a red skull on a pink table, and a yellow background

    Eddy Frankel's gallery crawl
    Skulls, bulls and someone peeing in her own eye: four great exhibitions to see for free

  • Lowry's painting shows hunched workers crossing a cobbled square beneath smoking factory chimneys and tenements

    Art and design
    LS Lowry review – matchstick men, or the broken denizens of a smog-filled hellscape?

  • Installation of part of a soft drink manufacturing factory as part of Ibrahim Mahama's show in Paris, The Harvest Season.

    Art and design
    Why has a crumbling bottle plant been rebuilt in Paris? The stunning show suggesting the future is Ghana-shaped

  • A father holds a child while leading a little girl across rocks, birds flying overhead

    Photography
    Light and Magic: The Birth of Art Photography review – a rhapsodic show to stop you in your tracks

  • Greenwich Village Halloween parade

    Halloween, midterms and cafe culture: photos of the weekend

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  • Blurry photograph showing ballerinas in motion at the dress rehearsal and preview of the Australian Ballet’s The Nutcracker at the Ian Potter State Theatre in Melbourne

    Australia’s best photos of the month – October 2026

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  • Maria Corina Machado stands in a car reaching toward a dense crowd waving phones and a flag at night

    The week around the world in 20 pictures

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  • A young girl in a witch costume

    Witches, clowns and a killer durian! Halloween in the Blue Mountains – in pictures

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  • Donald Trump waves around a small arch.

    Virginia and DC sue to stop Trump’s arch as government looks to start construction

  • An image of the planned new stadium, designed by Norman Foster and David Manica, which will be built on the San Siro site.

    Inter and Milan unveil plans for new shared stadium to replace San Siro

  • Hammersmith Bridge's green suspension towers span the River Thames under a clear sky

    Save Hammersmith Bridge – but keep it free of cars

  • Aerial view of Balam Balam Place, with a geometric patterned building and historic house

    Apartments, community centres and a pink outdoor toilet: Australia’s 2026 National Architecture award winners – in pictures

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  • A Kira Freije sculpture of a grimacing face beside a detached, curved mask-like fragment

    K-art, William Kentridge and a Turner prize worth getting excited for – the week in art

  • Ai Weiwei's Mushrooms, outside the Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia in Sydney, MCA Australia 2026 Neil Balnaves Tallawoladah Lawn Commission

    Ai Weiwei unveils his epic new Australian work: ‘90% of art is just garbage. Real art questions the existing order’

  • Ray Materson. Sirens and Fishes, 1993. Sock threads. 3¼x5 inches.

    ‘A saving gesture’: the art exhibition spotlighting US prisoners’ creations

  • Enchantress, Ashish Dhaka, India

    Avant-garments: the wild world of wearable art – in pictures

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