art & design
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The Louvre's closure proves art cannot survive climate changeThe flooding in Paris is a stark warning of the danger posed by climate change to everything human civilisation has achieved – no matter how priceless -
The futuristic city that never wasAmid the postwar rubble, designers dreamed of a gleaming powerhouse of moving platforms, monorails and highways in the sky. But austerity took their vision away – handing the future to ‘gangster development’
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Trevor Paglen's drone photography winsPaglen’s winning work combines images and research to examine the impact of data and technology on everyday life -
The artist duos who think as oneBrothers, sisters, lovers, others ... London’s Royal Academy celebrates the work of artist duos in its summer exhibition. From Jake and Dinos Chapman to the Wilson twins, four twosomes reveal how they work – and stay – together
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Simon and Garfunkel, selfies and fibreglass KitKatsMeades on Mussolini, Antony Gormley’s verdict on Brexit, and the high society grotesque of Cindy Sherman – all in your weekly art dispatch
in pictures
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True battles: your art on the theme of hegemonyWe asked you to share your art on the theme of hegemony. Artist Greg Samu has selected his favourites and given his reasons behind the choices
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talking points
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The hard-hat chancellor: what kind of Britain is George Osborne building?He loves to pose in a high-vis jacket… but will the chancellor’s grand projects deliver?
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'The dictator who failed to dictate': free-range architecture under MussoliniHe made a documentary about architecture in Nazi Germany and followed the Stalinist heritage trail. Now film-maker Jonathan Meades is tackling Mussolini – one fascist monument at a time
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reviews
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Mumbai's answer to Beryl CookWhy is Tate Modern exhibiting an old-fashioned, second-rate artist whose art recalls the kind of British painters it would never let through its doors?
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Walter De Maria – land art pioneer's work comes to groundGagosian, London
De Maria’s art is electrifying outside, but inside this show, his untouchable steel sculptures and uninspiring statements fail to tingle the spine -
High-society selfies by quintessential postmodernistThe grotesqueness of haute couture and high society come alive in the self-portraits of one the most influential photo artists of the late 20th century
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I is for Illuminating: share your artwork nowFor this month’s readers’ art project Andrea Schlieker, Director of Public Commissions and External Projects at White Cube gallery, invites you to share your artwork on the theme of illuminating
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‘Periodically, the panda used to lose its temper and go berserk’Michael Hardy poses for Ming the panda at London Zoo, 1939
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Shallow end: the disappearing lakes of southern Poland – in picturesBuilt to attract Polish pleasure-seekers during the Cold War, Lake Rożnowskie and Lake Czchowskie are now drying up. Photographer Krzysztof Racoń documents the decline of a once-vibrant destination
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Adam Hinton's best photograph: an artist painting amid the Kiev uprising‘The protesters would go over to him and chat – as if he was just painting a river’
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This'll do … cars repaired with tape, cardboard and worse – in picturesFor his book Badly Repaired Cars, Ronni Campana photographed hopelessly patched up vehicles in east London – and discovered a weird poignancy between the strips of duct tape
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Looking back at Age and Consent – in picturesThe photographic exhibition, staged in Australia in 1999, was an unusual and confronting show given its unflinching portrayal of the nude, ageing female body
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How to teach ... architectureFrom Roman construction methods to futuristic cities, learning about buildings is a great way to teach geography and stretch students’ creativity
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Author Joanna Briscoe: my fairytale shedWith a house that is impossible to extend, the cabin has proved to be a delight: a tiny study, a teenage escape, and a children’s sleepover retreat
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Implosion of the old Route 219 bridge in New York – videoA controlled implosion of the South Cascade Drive-Miller Road bridge in Springville, New York, takes place on Thursday
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Joe Hirsh obituaryOther lives: Director of architecture and planning for the City of Westminster who was in a Japanese PoW camp during the second world war
the big picture
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The disappearing lakes of southern PolandBuilt to attract Polish pleasure-seekers during the Cold War, Lake Rożnowskie and Lake Czchowskie are now drying up. Photographer Krzysztof Racoń documents the decline of a once-vibrant destination
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I keep hair. And I'm afraid of cheeseIn an exclusive preview of his new show, Turner winner Martin Creed gives us a guided tour round old cars, smashed chairs and plastic bags from under his fridge
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Meet the Anatomical VenusThey were reclining beauties with ecstatic expressions – and lift-out intestines. Enter the necrophiliac world of 18th-century anatomical models
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Maria Lassnig: under the skinLassnig’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
video
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The making of a London replicaDestroyed 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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Ai Weiwei visits migrants at Greek border campThe artist says the situation is a ‘big violation of human rights’
Artist Mary Heilmann The Californian surfer still making waves in her 70s