art & design
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Merseyside comes alive with art and Antony Gormley laments the ‘termites’ nests’ that are today’s cityscapes. Plus all the week’s other art happenings all in your weekly art dispatch
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Critics called his photographs a con when they were first shown 40 years ago, but Eggleston’s colour-saturated work has found lasting fame, defying interpretation
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I feel grateful that people sent food to us when we were in such a dire predicament
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Philip Castle’s airbrushed art features on album covers for David Bowie and Pulp but his lurid imagery for A Clockwork Orange remains his most infamous work – he remembers his friendship with the director
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Antony Penrose, whose parents Lee Miller and Roland Penrose were friends with the Spanish artist, remembers their playfights as a new exhibition opens
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Sculptor explains how new show, featuring 600 cast-iron human skyscrapers, expresses his anger about London’s testosterone-fuelled corporate expansion
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German photographer Max Slobodda’s Merge series captures people, and occasionally animals, appearing to melt into their surroundings
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talking points
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Thanks to the enlightened thinking of Brent council and Alison Brooks Architects, a notorious London estate now has some of the best housing in the neighbourhood
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The V&A was this week named museum of the year. One of the institution’s biggest fans lists some of his (lesser-known) favourite things
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This blockbuster retrospective seeks to show there is more to Georgia O’Keeffe than anodyne prints, signature aprons and sexual stereotypes – but her own gorgeous, awkward art compounds the cliches
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Jorge Otero-Pailos applied latex to walls in Westminster Hall to lift out centuries of dirt. But he can’t remove the post-Brexit stains of British politics
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The artist’s relaxed, humorous portraits, all featuring the same yellow chair, are a superheated pageant of fashion and pattern
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The South African-born photographer revisits his younger, wilder self, partying with riotous female friends in London’s Camden Town
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Exploring the Lebanese photographer’s portrait of a deserted restaurant
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‘It’s a reference to the fact that I was adopted. You don’t know if the mother’s arm is coming in – or moving away’
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Hungarian photographer Bence Bakonyi travelled to Haiti five years after its devastating earthquake, and found a country still living hand-to-mouth
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From the mid-70s, leftwing political figures were imprisoned, tortured and killed throughout South America as part of a dictators’ pact called Operation Condor. Photographer João Pina has tracked its legacy
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British documentary photographer Edward Thompson uses infrared film to go beyond the limits of the human eye, and uncover the invisible
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It was where the interwar generation aspired to, but suburbs today are a tale of dying high streets and creeping poverty
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Forget New York, let alone Tokyo: the wildly popular Japanese anime show Mobile Suit Gundam has rather bizarrely chosen quiet Edmonton, Alberta as the backdrop for its two-part season finale
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This bijou coastal retreat on stilts owes a debt to wartime sea forts
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Free colour-coded menu is changed daily according to air pollution levels at pop-up scheme that aims to raise awareness of problem
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From the mid-70s, leftwing political figures were imprisoned, tortured and killed throughout South America as part of a dictators’ pact called Operation Condor. Photographer João Pina has tracked its legacy
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Exhibitions including Alexander McQueen retrospective helped London venue clinch UK’s largest arts prize, judges say
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A new photography exhibition challenges the racist stereotypes of black men as hoodie-wearing criminals. The curator explains how his own experiences growing up informed the works he chose
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Thirty years ago, 10,000 children walked out of class to protest against Thatcher. As the march is restaged at Liverpool Biennial, we meet its original teen rebels
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Carsten Höller has turned Anish Kapoor’s ‘zombie pylon’ into a 178m corkscrew thrill-ride – our architecture critic pulls on his helmet and takes the plunge
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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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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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