art & design
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The US artist has transplanted his South Side Chicago hardware shop to Milan’s Fondazione Prada to highlight the disappearing store of human knowledge
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The Swinging 60s sway back into the capital and Hull is treated to a sea of naked strangers. All that and more in your weekly art dispatch
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When architect David Adjaye creates a building, it’s not finished until his DJ brother Peter – ‘like Dr Dre on magic mushrooms’ – translates it into music. The pair introduce his latest soundscapes here
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From the peaceful water garden to the sparkling shrine room, this Suffolk meditation complex fuses the exotic with the agricultural
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In a series of wild self portraits, Raqib Shaw has turned Old Masters paintings into unhinged tableaux of colour, energy and spirituality
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Exhibition at Gateshead’s Baltic gallery showcases children’s play areas from a bygone age that put the risk back in to frisky
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Haunting images taken by photographer Keow Wee Loong, who with two friends sneaked into the exclusion zone to explore four towns that were abandoned after the 2011 nuclear disaster
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talking points
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The photograph of Iesha Evans at a Black Lives Matter protest has become an instant classic. Art critic Jonathan Jones assesses the image’s impact, while photographer Jonathan Bachman recalls how he captured the shot
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A new exhibition claims Vincent Van Gogh’s mental illness hampered his work, rather than drove his singular vision – and presents fresh medical evidence about his notorious self-mutilation
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From Madagascan moths to clever clams, this show brings the complex story of how – and why – animals see the world through different eyes vividly to life
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A boldly arranged new show of the photographer’s early work invites viewers to navigate her most prolific period – before her vision turned to surrealism
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Designed by committee, this year’s biennial can feel cluttered and overwhelming. But it’s worth fighting to find the good stuff amid the piles of rubbish
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As we stripped off in the small hours of Saturday morning, a sea of 3,200 naked strangers in Hull, one question struck me: what if I’m dyed Avatar blue forever?
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Sebastian de-Ramon performs at a presidential rally in the Chilean capital days before Patricio Aylwin was elected
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Help Magnum photographer Chris Steele-Perkins finish his project celebrating the many nationalities that make up the capital’s population
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David Gilmour performed two extraordinary concerts at the amphitheatre in Pompeii, a reprisal of the legendary Pink Floyd 1971 film - and Sarah Lee was given exclusive access to photograph the event.
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‘The scale was monumental: each propeller blade looked like the underside of a whale’
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Dougie Wallace spent four years photographing the drivers and passengers of Mumbai’s Premier Padmini taxis – which are now an endangered species following changes to pollution laws
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Mies van der Rohe designed the chairs, Rothko created the artwork (then thought better of it) and New York’s power brokers did their deals over the salad and swordfish – but now the exquisite restaurant’s era has passed
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The long read: For decades, the Aylesbury estate in south London has been seen as a symbol of the failure of British social housing. But now – just as it is being demolished – many people are starting to think again
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From cycling initiatives to a 40-storey LED billboard, the capital of Malaysia is home to punk artists, Ramadan bazaars and food that speaks of its roots
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Further doubt cast on future of proposed bridge after preparatory work halted over fears about public funding
the big picture
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Photographer Alfred Seiland has travelled Europe and beyond documenting the remains of Roman culture, from gold mines in Spain to fish ponds in Cyprus
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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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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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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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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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