art & design
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Creating order from chaosFrancis 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 -
The riot grrl overturning rebel woman stereotypes with glitterMargaret 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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These people have been betrayed by UkipThe photographer on his shot of refugees walking into Slovenia – and how he feels about Ukip using it on its Brexit poster -
A radical world vision seen through animal eyesTerrified 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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'What is rubbish to some people is not to me’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
in pictures
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The Indian doctor fighting to change attitudes towards women – in picturesIn Pune, India, Dr Ganesh Rakh is providing free medical care for new and expectant mothers
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talking points
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Flowers, fabric bridges and Ukip's refugee poster – the week in artGeorge Stubbs’s radical vision, Tate Modern’s macaws, the Orbit slide and Newcastle’s buzziest nightspot ... for dung flies – all in your weekly art dispatch
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RIBA awards 2016: academic buildings dominate list of UK's best architectureUniversities loom large among the 46 winners, but Grayson Perry’s House for Essex and other deserving buildings are missing from architectural honours
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reviews
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Brain-fizzing art to power a pyramidSupersized 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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Painters’ Paintings: From Freud to Van DyckFrom 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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A dose of reality with exhibits on snooping and migrationSamson Young and Chiharu Shiota among artists whose works bring global political turmoil to art market’s top event
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Jamal Penjweny: rose-tinted dreams from IraqThe Iraqi artist rewrites his country’s suffering by sketching ‘pink dreams’ over black-and-white photographs of ordinary people
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Pacific ocean cool: when American Arts and Crafts met Japanese modernismThe photographer Yasuhiro Ishimoto’s images of the pioneering architecture of Greene and Greene have a minimal aesthetic that still looks contemporary
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‘I hopped up on the wall and got my sax out’: the fall of the Berlin WallStephen Ellery plays the saxophone on the Berlin Wall, 10 November 1989
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Beyond the bailout: searching for the soul of Greece – in picturesNikos Aliagas is a clean-cut TV presenter in France who got his hands dirty taking photographs in his native Greece. He finds a country full of poetry and beauty even in the midst of crisis
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Trouble in paradise: the lost motels of New Jersey – in picturesWildwood, 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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Rankin webchat – your questions answered on Instagram, Madonna and big moneyThe 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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Elizabethan theatre, Chateau d’Hardelot review – a great view from the circleAndrew Todd’s new playhouse in a French castle blends timeless principles and modern construction
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A Burglar’s Guide to the City by Geoff Manaugh review – how a criminal sees the worldBurglars 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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China's twin towers? Hangzhou skyscrapers look strangely familiarHangzhou 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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From Dante to Havana: Anna Gibb's architectural daydreams – in picturesArchitect 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
the big picture
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Searching for the soul of GreeceNikos Aliagas is a clean-cut TV presenter in France who got his hands dirty taking photographs in his native Greece. He finds a country full of poetry and beauty even in the midst of crisis
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A triumphant return to portraitureIn 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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The unseen flip-sides of the world's most famous paintingsFrom 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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How Berlin's Biennale became a slick, sarcastic jokeIn 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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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’
video
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It's a home, by the hourHow 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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Bristol school is given Banksy mural – videoChildren return to Bridge Farm primary school after their half-term break to find a Banksy mural on the school wall
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Banksy leaves mural and cheeky note in Bristol school as thanks for tributeArtist 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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