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Photos of the Week: Holy Week, ‘No Kings,’ Guitar Farm

Office-chair racing in Japan, an orca swimming near Seattle, a sandstorm over the island of Santorini, the launch of NASA’s newest lunar mission, and much more

By Alan Taylor
A polar bear cub, cuddled by its mother
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A polar-bear cub at the Novosibirsk Zoo, in Novosibirsk, Russia, on March 31, 2026. The cub was born on December 7, 2025, to the polar bears Kai and Gerda.
A person dressed as the Hindu goddess Kali waits inside a doorway.
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An artist dressed as the Hindu goddess Kali waits to participate in a religious procession on the occasion of the Ram Navami festival in Amritsar, India, on March 27, 2026.
A young model walks on a runway during a fashion show beneath a sculpture of a winged fairy-like being.
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A young model wears a creation by Anne Macchiato during China Fashion Week in Beijing, China, on March 28, 2026.
A kitesurfer surfs at sunset.
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A kitesurfer at sunset in Marseille, France, on March 29, 2026
A person stands beneath a huge sculpture of the sun, suspended from a ceiling inside an exhibit space.
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A visitor poses for photos on the opening day of the Helios artwork at the Dorchester Corn Exchange in Dorchester, England, on March 27, 2026. Helios, by the U.K. artist Luke Jerram, measures seven meters in diameter, featuring detailed imagery of the sun’s surface at an approximate scale of 1 to 200 million.
A large rocket lifts off from a launchpad, as several birds fly away from the scene.
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NASA’s Artemis II lunar flyby mission lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on April 1, 2026.
People play, kicking a ball, seen in silhouette, with a city skyline in the background.
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People kick a ball as the sun sets over the Sydney, Australia, skyline on March 30, 2026.
Dark, orange colored clouds, seen from the steep coast of a Greek island with many white buildings.
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A powerful storm carries sand from Africa over the island of Santorini and turns the sky orange-red on April 1, 2026.
People walk through city streets, beneath a hazy orange sky, during a dust storm.
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A man protects himself with a face mask as he walks amid a haze caused by sand dust from the Sahara, blown by strong southern winds, in Heraklion, Crete, on April 1, 2026.
Several people stand inside an exhibit space, looking up toward foliage hanging from the ceiling and green laser lights throughout the space.
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People visit the light installation Forest Seasons by Christopher Bauder at Dark Matter in Berlin on April 1, 2026. Accompanied by a soundscape by the Dutch musician Chris Kuijten, the installation surrounds visitors in a shifting forest of light, where rhythm and atmosphere echo the changing seasons.
A hillside vineyard, seen at night, dotted with hundreds of burning anti-frost candles.
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Anti-frost candles burn in a vineyard in the Chablis region near Burgundy, France, on March 27, 2026, as temperatures fell below zero degrees Celsius during the night.
A family gathers around a fire, outside of tents, with city buildings visible in the background.
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A family who fled Israeli shelling in southern Lebanon warm themselves by a bonfire next to tents used as shelters in Beirut, Lebanon, on March 31, 2026.
People row boats on a wide moat, surrounded by blossoming cherry trees in Tokyo.
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People row boats on Chidori-ga-fuchi, one of the moats around the Imperial Palace, enjoying the cherry blossoms in full bloom in Tokyo on April 2, 2026.
Sikh soldiers cover each other with colored powder during a festival.
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Sikh soldiers are covered with colored powder during the culmination of the ceremony to mark Holi Mohalla, during the Sikh Military Festival of Holla Mohalla at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in Camberley, England, on April 1, 2026.
Police arrest a protester dressed as the Statue of Liberty, in downtown Los Angeles.
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Police arrest a protester dressed as the Statue of Liberty, in downtown Los Angeles, after the “No Kings” rally on March 28, 2026.
A drone view shows a large gathering of anti-Trump demonstrators in Boston.
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A drone view shows a large gathering of demonstrators in Boston during a “No Kings” protest against the Trump administration’s policies, on March 28, 2026.
Dozens of people wearing white shirts and dark jackets stand in rows during an initiation ceremony.
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Newly hired employees of the Japan Airlines group attend the company’s initiation ceremony inside a hangar at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on April 1, 2026.
Penitents wearing pointed white hoods and robes take part in a procession during Holy Week in Spain.
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Penitents of the San Gonzalo brotherhood take part in a procession during Holy Week observances in Seville, Spain, on March 30, 2026.
A squirrel munches on pine cones in a park.
Kuba Stezycki / Reuters
A squirrel munches on pine cones in a park as warmer weather marks the arrival of spring in Warsaw, Poland, on April 1, 2026.
Purple and orange tulips bloom in a field.
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Tulips bloom in Asia’s largest tulip garden as Indira Gandhi Memorial Tulip Garden opens to the general public in Srinagar, Kashmir, India, on April 1, 2026.
A couple embraces as others gather and take photographs beneath blossoming cherry trees next to a tidal basin, at sunrise.
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A couple embraces among cherry-blossom trees at sunrise on March 28, 2026, along the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C.
Several people wearing helmets push themselves backwards on wheeled office chairs during an outdoor race.
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Racers riding on office chairs compete in the ISU-1 Grand Prix in Kyotanabe, Japan, on March 29, 2026. The ISU-1 Grand Prix is an endurance race supervised by the Japan Office Chair Racing Association (JORA), in which participants compete to see how many laps they can complete on office chairs over two hours.
Two basketball players collide during a game, with one losing control of the basketball.
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Miami Heat guard Pelle Larsson (left) is fouled by Philadelphia 76ers center Adem Bona during the second half of an NBA basketball game on March 30, 2026, in Miami.
A full moon rises behind the antenna of a skyscraper.
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A full moon rises behind the antenna of One World Trade Center in New York City on March 31, 2026, as seen from Jersey City, New Jersey.
Flamenco studentspractice in a dark underground parking garage.
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A group of flamenco students in Tel Aviv, Israel, dance in an underground parking garage after their studio class was interrupted by air-raid sirens warning of incoming missiles from Iran, on March 30, 2026.
An aerial view of trees that have been arranged in the outline and shape of a massive guitar, surrounded by cornfields.
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This aerial view shows Estancia La Guitarra (“the Guitar Farm”), surrounded by cornfields near General Levalle in the south of the Cordoba province, Argentina, on March 30, 2026. A labor of love created by the late Pedro Martin Ureta in memory of his wife, Graciela Yraizoz, the giant figure was planted in 1979 with more than 7,000 cypress and eucalyptus trees, forming a guitar 1,100 meters long and 400 meters wide, visible only from the air.
A shirtless man wades chest-deep in a running creek.
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A man braves near-freezing water in a creek in the Taunus region near Frankfurt, Germany, on March 29, 2026.
An orca swims past the Seattle skyline.
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An orca swims in Elliott Bay, past the downtown-Seattle skyline on April 1, 2026. The orca is a part of a pod that had not been recorded by researchers in this region until this past month, when three whales appeared in waters off British Columbia and Washington State.

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Alan Taylor is a senior editor at The Atlantic.
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