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Cyanotype printing and how you can make art using the sunThere’s a nearly 200-year-old art form that uses sun as paint, and you can easily do it at home. You may not have heard of it, but cyanotype printing is so popular among photographers and crafters that there’s a whole day dedicated to it: World Cyanotype Day, which is celebrated the last Saturday of September every year. Cyanotype originated as a form of photography in 1842 that uses ammonium iron(III) citrate + potassium ferricyanide to turn a material into a beautiful shade of Prussian blue when it is exposed to UV light (aka the sun). By coating a piece of paper or other material in a cyanotype solution and then only exposing parts of that material to the sun, you can create monochromatic works of art using the sun itself. It’s surprisingly easy and definitely something you can do at home as a unique craft (and as a chemistry experiment).

More than sixty artists explore migration, memory, and identity in this survey of Puerto Rican abstraction across and beyond the archipelago. Left: Raphael Collazo, “Arcana Mundi (Mysteries of the World)", 1985; Top right: Olga Albizu, “Blue Oil”, 1974; Bottom right: Raphael Montañez Ortíz, “Archaeological Find #22: The Aftermath”, 1961

The Los Angeles-based photographer, who was raised in a conservative Catholic environment, is reclaiming the divinity of queer and trans identity through religious imagery. The First Gathering (2024), with Smiles Meyer as creative director; Kaley Azambuja as stylist; Scout Nankin as intimacy coordinator/movement director; @hot_at_the_party as makeup artist; Betty Connolly as photo/lighting assistant; and models from left to right: Alena, Teague, Joey, JA, Mia, Jules, Annalise, Kat, Bamby, Mars, Chloe, Zaphir, and Lena (all images courtesy Smiles Meyer)

Protesters blocked the Louvre Monday as fallout from a weekend of unrest continues to shake France.

Name: The best reviewed film in history. Age: Not even out yet, except in the US and Canada. Appearance: Coming soon to a screen near you. How exciting! What is it? It’s called You Can See Everything. Who’s in it? DiCaprio? De Niro? Both? It’s not that kind of film. What’s it about, then? The subject of the documentary is Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced founder of … Did you say documentary? No thanks. But reviews of this particular documentary have been overwhelmingly favourable! I don’t go to the cinema to learn things. Critics have been unstinting in their praise for Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s unflinching three-hour examination of the Theranos scandal’s architect and … Three hours? Are you kidding? I know that seems long, but the Guardian’s critic called it “a stupefying and gloriously destabilising hall of psychological mirrors, a thrilling once-in-a-lifetime collision of director and subject”. And audiences have so far been undaunted by the long run time – it logged a phenomenal $15m at the box office in its opening weekend in the US and Canada. Meh. And the film has earned an unprecedented Metacritic score of 99/100. Unprecedented?