Art & design
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3 out of 5 stars.
Artes Mundi 8 review – engrossing works blunted by limp liberal agenda
3 out of 5 stars.This year’s shortlist features industrial angst, a cryptic shadow play and hypnotic images of American paranoia – but the artists are be being used as human slogans -
Melbourne-based, Iranian-born artist Hoda Afshar has taken out the 2018 Bowness Photography prize. Here is a selection of the finalists
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‘After a delicious lunch of brain, liver and lung stew, we drove around – and spotted these guys just hanging out in a car’ -
A rounded rocky outcrop covered in metal shacks, Migingo Island rises out of Lake Victoria like an iron-plated turtle -
Donald Niebyl crossed the Balkans in search of spomenik – abstract memorials built in Tito’s Yugoslavia to celebrate the defeat of Axis forces in the second world war
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3 out of 5 stars.
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Since rebel-held eastern Ghouta fell in April after a five-year siege by Assad forces, some of the once vibrant city has come to life again -
The Hadza are one of the last remaining hunter gatherer societies in the world. The Hadza are an an indigenous ethnic group located near Lake Eyasi in the Rift Valley. They are descendants of Tanzania’s aboriginal hunter-gatherers and have occupied their land unchanged for thousands of years
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Since 1905, the city in Maryland has been home to more than 240 cinemas and while many of these buildings have survived, only a few of them still show films. On 17 November, the National Building Museum in Washington DC is opening an exhibition to celebrate the artistry behind them, entitled Flickering Treasures: Rediscovering Baltimore’s Forgotten Movie Theaters -
Letters: Most UK tenancy agreements continue the Victorian practice of restricting or prohibiting home-based work, writes Dr Frances Holliss -
With pinball machine interiors and animal-shaped facades, Mamani’s wild venues have transformed Bolivian architecture. Now the former bricklayer is taking ‘neo-Andean’ style to Paris -
Atlanta is known as a city where they would knock down a historic building to put up a parking lot. We look at what’s gone and what might be next
Visual arts
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For a world in shock, WW1 prompted a unique outpouring of creative expression. Our panel of experts pick their favourites -
The artists and founders involved with 50 State Initiative, a crowdfunded project to erect politically charged billboards, talk about their motivations -
Hard-hitting works by Weimar iconoclasts, Yoko Ono lends support to Pussy Riot, and Lucy Skaer explores the desire to collect
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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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LS Lowry exhibition: 'an unaggressive painter' - archive, 1948