art & design
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Turner's Dutch Boats needn't stay anchored in Britain to wield their powerIt is absurd to make a patriotic fuss about this painting staying in Britain – Turner is a great artist because he has something to say to the entire world -
Macabre vintage postersBefore TV and radio, the main way of reaching the public was with eye-catching posters. Most have been lost or destroyed, but Los Angeles art gallery Century Guild has a collection of peculiar prints from Europe dating back to 1880
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The 20 photographs of the weekEurope’s refugee crisis, the executions in Saudi Arabia, winter swimming in Russia – the best photography in news, culture and sport from around the world this week -
The Iranian child inmates facing executionIn Iran, girls are held criminally accountable by law from the age of nine, and can be sentenced to death by hanging for crimes such as murder, drug trafficking and armed robbery. Sadegh Souri has photographed girls in the harsh conditions of juvenile detention
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How the art world embraced modern technology firstA wall of TV monitors, a face pixelated in Mondrian colours, a playful selfie … we may all be artists in the social media age, but, as a new exhibition reveals, visual artists were the original tech heads
in pictures
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Tin baths, beehives and brothels: life on 'the wickedest road in Britain' – in picturesVarna Road in Birmingham was a demonised district in 1960s Britain ... until the US photographer Janet Mendelsohn arrived and captured the tenderness and warmth amid the poverty, pimps and prostitution
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talking points
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The Sistine Chapel in a council house – the week in artMeet the outsider artists who have transformed their homes into masterpieces, and see the super slides that are about to take over the art world. Plus the Manchester street scene that went viral and more
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Wig out! The bizarre game that lets you create mammoth hairdosWith Design a Wig, you can use feathers, powder and giant ship ornaments to make your own version of the wacky hairstyles people wore in the 18th century. It’s the perfect entry point to the V&A’s scintillating new collection
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reviews
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Bracing and beautifulIntrepid Swiss artist Julian Charrière turns ancient icebergs, radioactive dust and desert lithium into the stuff of poetry
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Everyday rubbish reimaginedFrom painted takeaway cartons to plastic bag trees, California artist B Wurtz wants us to take a close, loving look at junk
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The unsung queen of British performance artA film without motion, an opera without singers, a story in fragments… Rose English holds all in compelling balance
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Your pictures: share your photos on the theme of 'play'Wherever you are in the world, we’d like to see your pictures of ‘talk.’ Share your best photos via GuardianWitness
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That’s me in the picture: Rose Levenson meets Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, east London, 1975
That’s me in the picture: Rose Levenson meets Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, east London, 1975
I didn’t believe they’d come – Clapton was such a down-and-out area and they were such icons
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Richard Denyer obituaryPhotographer whose work was rooted in the people and landscape of East Anglia
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ORLAN's best photograph: a striptease in the style of Botticelli‘The sheets were for my wedding trousseau, but I covered them in sperm and used them for a striptease instead’
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Life force: empowering portraits of domestic violence survivorsChantal Barlow’s grandmother was shot dead by her grandfather in a drunken rampage in 1975. Now, the artist is using her camera to take photographs of 36 domestic violence survivors – one for every year of her grandmother’s life
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'I have never felt more beautiful': domestic violence survivors – in picturesChantal Barlow’s Unconventional Apology series allows women to share their stories of domestic violence as she photographs them. ‘When their reactions included chills, tears and storytelling, I felt the power of this project,’ she says
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Stately race against time to restore Capitol dome before 2017 inaugurationThe man in charge of mending the 1,300 cracks in the cast-iron dome is confident but Donald Trump has suggested work will not be finished a year from now
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Parks and recreation: America from the air - in picturesPhotographer Jeffrey Milstein has taken stunning aerial images of public gathering places like Coney Island in New York and Venice Beach skate park in Los Angeles as part of his new work Parks and Recreation
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China rising: the 10 tallest skyscrapers of 2016 – in picturesThe Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat keeps tabs on skyscrapers under construction around the world. Of the 10 tallest due for completion this year, six are in China, two in Dubai and one each in Seoul and Moscow
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The original Silicon Valley: inside Siberia's science town – in picturesIt was a hotbed for Russia’s finest minds, built in the middle of Siberia in 1957. But then Akademgorodok was left to languish for years. Now, it’s coming back to life, with bars and coffee shops, the next generation of innovators – and its very own beach
the big picture
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Life on 'the wickedest road in Britain'Varna Road in Birmingham was a demonised district in 1960s Britain ... until the US photographer Janet Mendelsohn arrived and captured the tenderness and warmth amid the poverty, pimps and prostitution
you may have missed
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I spent years turning my council house into the Sistine ChapelRobert Burns painted The Birth of Venus on his bathroom wall, Sue Kreitzman filled her house with so much art she had to knock through to her neighbour’s … meet the artists who have turned their homes into masterpieces
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The man who photographed India – without any IndiansSweater vests, 70s hair, lightning bolts … Olivier Culmann has plotted trends in Indian portraiture – without snapping a single local. Instead, he poses himself and darkens his skin with filters. Is it social commentary, or an off-colour joke?
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The dangerous art of Carolee SchneemannShe has spent 50 years beguiling and outraging audiences in equal measure. The artist provocateur talks fearlessness, feminism – and what she’s done for Kim Kardashian
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The London skyline of tomorrowThe ley lines, the hallowed dome of St Paul’s, packs of hungry dogs – and a tipsy surveyor in the 1930s ... these are the invisible forces shaping the City’s skyline
video
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An alternative eye on this year's finalistsFrom the surreal to the sublime via a photographic doormat, Guardian Australia’s picture editor, Jonny Weeks, talks to our photographer-at-large, Mike Bowers, about the 47 finalists in this year’s prize
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300 tonnes of scrap metal transformed into a sculpture – videoSci-fi installation by former industrial wrecker and artist Tom Every, AKA Dr Evermor is on show at the Art Park in Wisconsin
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Goya's Duchess of Alba: 'Every hair on her head awakens desire' - videoXavier Bray, the curator of the National Gallery’s exhibition of portraits by the Spanish artist, talks about the collection’s jewel
'The wickedest road in Britain' The photos that told the truth about red light Birmingham
In pictures Tin baths, beehives and brothels