art & design
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William Burns Livingston III discovered he could draw after being incarcerated – now his work is being collected by the likes of punk legend Ian MacKaye
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At 94, the artist talks to Emma Brockes about her unlikely match with Picasso, her own ambition – and why she’s buying back all her paintings
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Cool and Californian, punky and urban – Mary Heilmann toys irreverently with the more uptight traditions of abstract art to create a new world of pleasure
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From civil rights crusades to The Slap, pools have been at the centre of many of the nation’s defining moments
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‘Bob’s parents had come up from New Orleans to see him. Back then, Aids was like the plague – if you got it, you died’
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Smithfield market will be the museum’s new home, but which architectural vision should shape its future: the eye-catching one, the ghostly one, the corporate one … or the one that rings alarm bells?
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A decade-long fascination with wordplay, consumer culture and illustration led artist Anna Hoyle to start painting jackets for fictional fiction
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Mary Heilmann’s personal touch, Manchester’s lost architecture and Nicholas Nixon’s unbearably moving family portrait – all in your weekly art dispatch
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Mark Anderson | The New Tate Modern Opening Weekend | Georgiana Houghton | Cecily Brown | Royal Academy Of Arts Summer Exhibition
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Is it a wall? Is it a cave? Actually, this year’s pavilion started life as shelves – but it has gawp-factor by the bucketload
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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
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These portraits of refugees at different stages of their journey reveal a calmer human spirit amid the chaos
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Lisa Hughes reaches for her seven-month-old son, Sam, 15 June 1996
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A print of one of the most celebrated photographs in Australian history, Max Dupain’s Sunbaker, is expected to reach between $20,000 and $30,000 when it goes under the hammer at Mossgreen this month
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Cristobál Balenciaga, Issey Miyake, Rei Kawakubo – a new book, Fashion Game Changers, charts the radical new silhouettes available to women during the 20th century
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From majestic Alpine scenes to expressive portraits, a new exhibition shows off the wide-eyed wonder of 19th-century photographers
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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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Bjarke Ingels creates the most successful pavilion yet with a heap of fibreglass boxes, while four new ‘summer houses’ join in the fun
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New developments, and the historic buildings they dwarf, can look out of place as the cityscape evolves. Our readers shared their pictures of the conflict between old and new in cities around the world – from Aberdeen to Zagreb
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Manchester’s skyline is changing drastically as its economy booms. Something has to be done about the housing and office-space shortages, but critics say new developments are sacrificing historic buildings at the heart of the city’s identity
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After years being ravaged by the Biafran civil war, Nigeria was ready to kick out the jams in the 1970s with psych-laced funk. Musicologist Uchenna Ikonne tells the stories behind the sunglasses
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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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Children return to Bridge Farm primary school after their half-term break to find a Banksy mural on the school wall
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Artist shows gratitude to Bridge Farm primary for naming house after him, but tells pupils ‘forgiveness is easier to get than permission’
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Museum of Broken Relationships Gallery devoted to the wreckage of lost love