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Francesca Allen measures the worth of hair at a folkloric beauty pageant

Chloe Gaillard imbues typography with historical easter eggs

Comma Type’s CMM Coda epitomises the influence of women in code

The new creative neighbourhoods in Mumbai are preserving cultural heritage, while trying to avoid gentrification

Leeds during Thatcher: An alternative vision of northern coming of age

Adding to the archive: How Dogs and their Dykes is building on queer history

“A pre-internet era of devotion”: The book immortalising the lost art of fan-made record sleeves

Why, in Egypt, creatives are returning to calligraphy in their droves

Josh Greet is reenergising sports photography by injecting it with sci-fi and folk horror visuals

Emi O’Connell retraces her grandmother’s escape from a mother and baby home in Ireland

History on tap: An ode to the design legacy of traditional pubs

Montrel Beverly recreates the biblical and art history with pipe cleaners

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Tom Shaw reclaims cricket from stereotypes and sensationalism with grounded sports photography

Louie Edison’s fabric collages tell stories of a time gone by

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Discover Australia’s smallest museums, and the strange treasures they hold

Sid Pattni’s portraits unpack the internalised colonial gaze

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Photographing the women of the Danza de los Voladores

How rights were won: Inside the photography exhibition that traces a century of protest

Take a trip into Brian Blomerth’s graphic history of psychedelic experiments

Hannah Lim on how her multidisciplinary practice blends flamboyance, ornamentation and function