art & design
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British academics have used geographic profiling in a study which backs up a theory about the identity of elusive street artist Banksy
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The deteriorating refugee crisis in Europe, the return to Earth from the International Space Station, Paris fashion week – the best photography in news, culture and sport from around the world this week
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Socialism is the theme of this year’s multimedia festival, with George Orwell, the Jarrow Crusade and a worrying Muscovite blogger among its inspirations
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The Royal Academy celebrates a Renaissance great, Patti Smith opens up about photography, plus let’s all move to Palm Springs
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Gleaming and ambitious, Santiago Calatrava’s newly opened World Trade Center transportation hub is a symbol of optimism, but the project is beset by flaws
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Sculptor expresses astonishment after being selected as artist for British Pavilion at renowned international art exhibition
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Ever looked at a picture of your cat and imagined it as an uber-villain? Reddit user Your_Post_as_a_Movie turns user’s photographs into fantasy film posters
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talking points
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Gabriele Finaldi is right. The Tate shouldn’t have exclusive access to 20th-century art. It’s time to end these closed-minded historical art wars
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Photographer equally admired for his work in politics, conflict zones, documentaries and portraiture
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reviews
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By submerging Botticelli and his Venus in the trashy pool of pop and tourist culture they have inspired, this landmark V&A show elevates them both
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The Met has a new space for contemporary art in the brutalist building once occupied by the Whitney – but will the shows there be worthy of the illustrious mothership?
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An astonishing homecoming for this madly inventive artist sets the grotesque against a deep but compassionate melancholy that burns into your soul
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It was amazing to see the comments roll in, from friends and strangers, saying, ‘I can’t believe you missed that, Greg’
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Wrestlers are more famous than footballers in Senegal earning up to £200,000 and using rituals, potions and amulets to secure victory. Christian Bobst follows the Dakar superstars from the beaches where they train to the roar of the arena
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The punk poet has spent years taking pictures with her vintage Polaroid Land 250. Now her work is being shown in New York. Just don’t expect perfection
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‘My photographs of Czechoslovakia got me a 10-month sentence’
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Photographer Jim Grover shadowed south London priest Kit Gunasekera as he united his diverse congregation with prayer, sermons – and fish suppers
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Intrusive eyes, streams of knowledge and information overload ... we asked you to share your art on the theme of fire. Dulwich Picture Gallery curator Ian Dejardin has selected his favourites
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A revamp of an iconic 60s hotel in the French Alps transforms a once maligned purpose-built ski resort into an industrial-chic budget skiing base
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If you’ve ever thought them magnificent, intriguing and climbable, you’re not alone. And as they’re demolished, I fear we’re losing a link with our history
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Hopes excavation unearths remains predating priory ruins on island famous for St Cuthbert and Lindisfarne Gospels
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New Yorkers and tourists got their first look at the inside of the new $3.9bn transportation hub at the World Trade Center on Thursday
the big picture
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Wrestlers are more famous than footballers in Senegal earning up to £200,000 and using rituals, potions and amulets to secure victory. Christian Bobst follows the Dakar superstars from the beaches where they train to the roar of the arena
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Banned books, fines for theatre groups, playlists for radios, funding axed for ‘disloyal’ art … do Israel’s artists feel under attack from culture minister, and ex-brigadier-general, Miri Regev?
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At 19 he exploded onto the scene with Kids – and spent the next 20 years making lurid films like Gummo and Spring Breakers. So why is Harmony Korine now doing oil paintings?
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The Danish architect offers a sculptural space ‘like a mountain of ice cubes’
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Artist Doug Fishbone has reimagined the classic mini golf experience, combining hardhitting sculpture with putting skills
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Watch the trailer for a new documentary about the photographer whose black and white pictures of gay erotica shocked Americans
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Three months after the terrorist attacks in the French capital, Jean Jullien designs a new image of hope out of the tears of the past
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Internet artist Jeremy Bailey gives the Guardian an exclusive introduction to his work, which features in Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966) at the Whitechapel gallery
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