art & design
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Muralist JR has cast a spell over the Paris museum’s glass canopy in a work that recalls the Renaissance’s eye-fooling tricks. Now can we have one for the Shard?
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‘The sign means happiness. You close your eyes, walk towards it, and try to touch the centre. I can’t explain the handbag’
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Author and passionate lepidopterist Vladimir Nabokov once said: ‘Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.’ His scientific drawings and watercolours of butterflies have now been collected into one volume, Fine Lines
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The tooth of a sperm whale, a street sign to a ghost village, issues of Romania Today … Cornelia Parker’s new show is a treasure trove of finds chanced upon by everyone from Jarvis Cocker to Marina Warner
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Photographs don't lie Why does Austria flirt with fascism?
Jonathan JonesGustav Metzger used a photo of Jewish men scrubbing Viennese streets under the gaze of sneering Nazis to remind the world about antisemitism. The narrow defeat of Norbert Hofer proves his message is as relevant as ever -
Armed with her paintbrush, the illustrator and journalist is redefining reportage with her portraits of Guantánamo Bay, Trump and Syrian refugees
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From Damien Hirst in his boxers to Yayoi Kusama in a polkadot wonderland, Shigeo Anzaï tracks art’s biggest names to their natural habitats and captures them in candid black and white
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Turi Caggegi’s recent volcanic YouTube footage is uncannily similar to Joseph Wright’s 18th-century art of Vesuvius – both capture an Italian night on fire
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With its chainmail brickwork, vast spaces and panoramic views, the Tate’s £260m ziggurat is a mesmerising twist on the existing art gallery
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The raw melodrama of Francis Bacon meets the humour and humanity of Maria Lassnig in this superb double bill
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This frustrating show about the ‘lost worlds’ of the Nile Delta has too much Indiana Jones nonsense – and not enough genuine wonders
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Palestine Museum A beacon of optimism on a West Bank hilltop
Oliver WainwrightWith gardens of native species in lieu of a perimeter wall, this bright limestone hangar is a powerful and positive presence – even without any contents
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Artist, designer and photographer who built up a massive archive of Soviet-era artefacts
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Jovial bodybuilders, sun-kissed surfers, free-running teenagers … can this really be Palestine? Tanya Habjouqa explains her astonishingly fresh take on occupied life
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The Observer photojournalist arrived in the city in the 1960s as a young man and set to documenting his first impressions of its wild life
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For Hackney-based photographer Emily Stein, the carefree days of youth need not be forgotten when we grow up
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The EgyptAir crash, violent demonstrations in Paris and Nairobi, Leicester City’s victory parade, Iggy Pop crowdsurfing in London, the ongoing refugee crisis in Europe – the best photography in news, culture and sport from around the world this week
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At UEA’s Enterprise Centre, local materials meet hi-tech carbon monitoring – all on a traditional budget
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Featuring footage of Gray’s playfully practical works, this layered and interesting study of the architect and designer stands up well
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Planned revamp of Moscow’s VDNKh centre to be explored at event’s Russian pavilion, prompting mixed reaction from residents
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Rachel Cox charts with painful honesty her grandmother’s final days with a degenerative brain disease in this Lens Culture award-winning photo series
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Dive into underwater cities, swoon over O’Keeffe’s ravishing blooms, and swoosh down Carsten-Höller’s slides and hang out with Hockney and his friends in LA
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They were reclining beauties with ecstatic expressions – and lift-out intestines. Enter the necrophiliac world of 18th-century anatomical models
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Lassnig’s paintings of herself as a robot, a monster and an elderly naked gunslinger have seen her hailed as the perfect artist for the age of the selfie. But her ‘body awareness’ work is about more than just surface
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The time Yves Klein spent working in a London frame shop was crucial to his artistic development, so why is it forgotten?
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Destroyed by Isis in October 2015, a 2000-year-old arch from Palmyra, Syria, has been meticulously recreated through 3D printing for Trafalgar Square
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The artist says the situation is a ‘big violation of human rights’
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Alejandro Aravena's Venice architecture biennale We can’t forget beauty in our battles