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Francis Bacon was a great artist, but a very bad record keeper. As the definitive inventory of his paintings is published, Stephen Smith meets the art history detective who catalogued his life
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Margaret Meehan’s collages and sculptures turn ostracised, forgotten women into defiant modern feminists – giving voice to the fringe with prosthetics and paint
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The photographer on his shot of refugees walking into Slovenia – and how he feels about Ukip using it on its Brexit poster
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Terrified horses, playful leopards, anxious lemurs … the 18th-century painter’s acute observation and compassion are vividly present in this impactful show
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As a child, Stanley Spencer was always rummaging in dustbins – a tea pot, jam tin and cabbage stalk seemed to him a holy trinity. In this short film, Spencer’s paintings glorifying the everyday are brought to life in the artist’s own words
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Long before Cards Against Humanity, Lijn was playing her Power Game with Derek Jarman and taking meetings at the Beat Hotel. As her super smart word-art goes back on show in London and Paris, she talks politics, poetry and pot
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Architect Anna Gibb’s illustrations span global cities from Hong Kong to Glasgow – and bring to life the rich histories that emerge out of their buildings
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At 78, the artist is working harder than ever as he prepared to exhibit 83 new works in London. But does experience make every artist better with the years?
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EU bureaucrats want your tea and toast. Arm yourself with a Dyson
Oliver WainwrightThe Brexit war cry has been bellowed from a flimsy stage set of Britishness. Leaving the EU won’t miraculously transport us back to 1950s domesticity -
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Supersized sculpture, live performance and piles of goo get the airing they deserve in an expansion full of surprise – the 360-degree lookout is art itself
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From the sensous Cézanne owned by Degas to van Dyck’s horde of Titians, this sparky show reveals the chains of inspiration linking painters through the ages
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Samson Young and Chiharu Shiota among artists whose works bring global political turmoil to art market’s top event
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The Dazed and Confused founder joined us to answer your questions – and weighed in on everything from photographing Madonna to banning selfie sticks at museums. Catch up with his answers here
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The desire to discover the US by car is embedded in the American psyche – as a book, now turned into an exhibition, of photographs makes clear
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Other lives: Painter, ceramicist and photographer who with her husband founded the Sidney Nolan Trust arts centre
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From mods to hip-hop, the photographer documented Britain’s musical subcultures of the 70s and 80s
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Berlin-based graphic designer Ramin Nasibov finds pockets of colour hiding among grey skylines
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Muhammad Ali’s memorial service, Banksy’s new mural in Bristol, Euro 2016 in France, the continuing fight against Isis – the best photography in news, culture and sport from around the world this week
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Burglars look at buildings in a different way, seeing lift shafts that can be shimmied up and plasterboard walls to cut through. This playful book is crammed with good anecdotes
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Hangzhou already has a copycat Eiffel Tower, while other cities have versions of Manhattan and Tower Bridge. Now critics say the proposed Zhejiang Gate Towers bear a suspicious resemblance to the destroyed World Trade Centre buildings
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The new pavillion for the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec has a sense of humour and humility, and is designed above all for showcasing art
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As the world urbanises, we present five portraits of people who are pioneering new ways of living in cities – from the men who sleep in Tokyo’s net cafes to the Londoners embracing ‘co-housing’
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Wildwood, a coastal resort in New Jersey, saw a spate of modernist masterpieces built in the 1950s – only for them to be destroyed decades later. Photographer Mark Havens documented the town before it was too late
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In the wake of a personal tragedy, Hockney embarked on a new project: to capture his wide social circle in defiantly exuberant tones
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From the Mona Lisa to Van Gogh’s Starry Night, Brazilian artist Vik Muniz has exposed – literally – the nuts and bolts of centuries-old masterpieces
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In the hands of New York fashion collective DIS, one of Europe’s biggest exhibitions is now a feeble blancmange of ads and avatars – where is the art?
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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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How We Live Now: In Tokyo, commutes are so long, and apartments so small, that some people sleep in internet cafes – which offer showers, meals, clothes and everything you might need for a substitute home
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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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