Art & design
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Thousands of women and girls from across the UK come together to create a vast participatory artwork to celebrate 100 years since women got the vote -
Public will be able to see spectacular floor of St George’s Hall as part of city’s art festival -
Jane Bown captured the arrival of Elizabeth Taylor and the somewhat rumpled pair of Richard Burton and Noël Coward, for page one.
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5 out of 5 stars.
Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up review – an extraordinary testimony to suffering and spirit
5 out of 5 stars.From plaster corsets to prosthetic legs, Frida Kahlo’s possessions reveal the astonishing courage of an artist whose life and work were painfully intertwined -
The American photographer’s choreographed airport scene captures the passive nature of travel
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5 out of 5 stars.
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The eruption of the Fuego volcano in Guatemala, demonstrations in Gaza, rescued cats in Syria and Sloane Stephens at the French Open – the week captured by the world’s best photojournalists -
From US Marines in Korean trenches to Picasso in his studio and Nixon deep in thought, the photojournalist captured the tumult of the 1950s and 1960s -
American hailed for capturing reality of war and also took famous images of Picasso
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SAVE Britain’s Heritage’s latest Buildings at Risk Catalogue, Revive and Survive, features over 100 empty and neglected buildings gathered from all round the country which need a fresh start to give them renewed life and to ensure their survival -
Medieval building is the latest to strip out hand-crafted seating as churches strive to adapt to 21st-century needs -
Tenants of affordable flats built by developer live in separate low-rise ‘poor house’ -
Fjordenhus, an elliptical, twisting structure, is being opened up to the public
Visual arts
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Pedigree chums... -
When you have to use your imagination… -
She shook up the church and the art world with her expressive, exuberant and boisterous work
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Forget flash campaigns. Political battles are now won with knocked-up placards, beermats, hats and memes. And museums are scrambling to scoop them up -
The pictures, painted by Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald, are vivid depictions by African American artists and will hang at the Smithsonian -
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