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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These extraordinary images from inside the human body and the natural world are all finalists in this year’s awards
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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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MP and councillors urge housing trust to veto scheme, claiming no justification for spending £60m of public money
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The market may have cooled but there’s still plenty to see at New York’s art fairs – not least a concerted turnout for African art at the Armory and a grown-up, but still fresh, Independent
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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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in pictures
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New Jersey artist Michael Massaia’s masticated sculptures of sea creatures, flamenco dancers and space helmets are made entirely from spat-out gum
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talking points
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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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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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reviews
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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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Af Klint’s extraordinary paintings harness geometry, science and sex; as do the alchemical installations of art collective Das Institut. Together they delight
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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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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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French photographer Joséphine Douet was so inspired by the late US realist painter she followed in his tracks, shooting the barns, bark and bare beauty that inspired him in and around his home of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
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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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At these cool conceptual spaces, the design is just as compelling as what’s on offer at the shopping, exhibition, dining and drinking venues
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Extract: Rowan Moore on how London became the pre-eminent global city, a diverse wonderland for all tastes, if not all pockets…
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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
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
you may have missed
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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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