Art & design
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The award-winning Guardian photojournalist covered assignments across the UK, Europe, the Middle East, China, India, the Soviet Union, the US and Japan during his 23-year career based at the paper’s Manchester office -
Today’s house-proud animals are joining the luxury property market
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For the past two years, Ian Wood has been capturing the free spirit of his home town of Berkeley, California, through its array of art on garage doors -
You cannot fault the ambition that underpins the V&A’s striking new northern outpost, but behind the powerful exterior not all is sweetness and light -
The US conceptual artist on protest movements of the moment, inequality in the art world, and where she finds hope
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5 out of 5 stars.
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Art Conrad Shawcross review – beware of the toppling tetrahedrons
4 out of 5 stars.
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Daily life in Pyongyang, Hurricane Florence, protests in Gaza and Serena Williams at the US Open in New York – the week captured by the world’s best photojournalists -
The car pioneered in Nazi Germany and immortalised in Hollywood will cease production in 2019 -
Graeme Williams was astonished to see his iconic 1990 photograph at an art fair, drained of colour, under Hank Willis Thomas. Thomas, however, questions if Williams has rights to the image
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The popular BBC drama put a London brutalist estate front and centre. Here are eight others around the UK -
The conflict between ancient and modern is seen more clearly in Athens than elsewhere because one moment of its history is celebrated over any other -
Architect and educator whose Architecture Research Unit revolutionised the way the discipline was taught -
Thinking big in the fight against smog, architects have designed 100m-high pollution-absorbing towers for India’s capital city
Visual arts
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Hard-hitting works by Weimar iconoclasts, Yoko Ono lends support to Pussy Riot, and Lucy Skaer explores the desire to collect -
Edinburgh’s dynamic visual arts scene is celebrated in the 15th annual art festival with more than 50 exhibitions at more than 45 venues -
4 out of 5 stars.
From Judy Chicago to Margaret Harrison, this fascinating documentary tells the story of the female artists who rejected the established order in the 70s
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Michael Rakowitz used 10,000 tin cans to rescue a treasure destroyed by Isis. The Iraqi-American, who once made a work out of Saddam Hussein’s dinner plates, explains why he likes causing trouble -
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 -
He chased parades, ambushed hairdressers and refused to leave Ground Zero. Over PG Tips and ricotta at his Tuscan barn, Joel Meyerowitz relives his most stunning shots
Courtauld Impressionists: From Manet to Cézanne review – revolution pure and simple
5 out of 5 stars.