art & design
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The flooding in Paris is a stark warning of the danger posed by climate change to everything human civilisation has achieved – no matter how priceless
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Amid 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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Paglen’s winning work combines images and research to examine the impact of data and technology on everyday life
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Brothers, 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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Meades on Mussolini, Antony Gormley’s verdict on Brexit, and the high society grotesque of Cindy Sherman – all in your weekly art dispatch
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This portrait of the artist and his wife may be hugely popular on social media, but its intimacy and humanity – just as with a photographic selfie – is fake
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We 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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He loves to pose in a high-vis jacket… but will the chancellor’s grand projects deliver?
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He 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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Why 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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Gagosian, London
De Maria’s art is electrifying outside, but inside this show, his untouchable steel sculptures and uninspiring statements fail to tingle the spine -
The 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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For 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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Michael Hardy poses for Ming the panda at London Zoo, 1939
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Built 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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‘The protesters would go over to him and chat – as if he was just painting a river’
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For 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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The 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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Danish, Swedish and Australian production team says Jørn Utzon’s fight for his radical design is ‘perfect movie material’
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From Roman construction methods to futuristic cities, learning about buildings is a great way to teach geography and stretch students’ creativity
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With 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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A controlled implosion of the South Cascade Drive-Miller Road bridge in Springville, New York, takes place on Thursday
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Built 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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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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In 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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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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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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