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More than medieval mock combat, jousting was about sex, spectacle and excess – and Holbein, Da Vinci and Botticelli are among the great artists who participated
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It was 11 o’clock when we raced and we naively planned to meet our families in the pub at 4.30pm for a roast. What actually happened is we got back to our hotel at 3am
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Witness the sensual wonders of the middle ages in Cambridge while the Baltic explores playground utopianism
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Ai Weiwei, Steve McQueen and Maxine Peake to feature in Artangel exhibition at site of writer’s imprisonment
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Tate Modern has finally won me over – with art
Jonathan JonesThe Switch House opening raised an old worry: would the building eclipse its contents? Not any more. Tate Modern is now a world-class modern art museum -
From expansive landscapes to intimate portraits, the jury’s selection will be shown at the 2016 EyeEm photography festival in Berlin on 27 August
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From Lily Cole posing with a supersized Pentax to Bill Brandt hiding behind his Kodak wide-angle, cameras are the stars of this collection of snaps and selfies
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Louise Bourgeois | The Body Extended | Terence Donovan | Daydreaming With Stanley Kubrick | Hiraki Sawa
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Whether photographing celebrities or busboys, Eggleston’s work is both exact and indifferent, getting under your skin and changing how you see the world
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Prepare to be enchanted by the playful, melancholy, sociable art of Iceland’s Ragnar Kjartansson
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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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‘The men in black masks chase and beat the villagers to protect the sheep from evil’
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Briefly Warhol’s lover, Name captured the models, musicians and superstars who passed through Warhol’s studio, including the Velvet Underground and Nico
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Four photographers have been newly inducted into Magnum, one of the world’s most respected photo agencies, for their stark, witty and affectionate work
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Guardian Australia went to the races at Wentworth Park in Sydney to document the sport and speak to those who are passionately campaigning for it to continue
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The German’s photographs of landscapes share a geometric beauty with the work of Mondrian
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Having run his fish-and-chip shop in Iffley Road, Oxford, for 25 years, in 2014 Kazem Hakimi decided to start photographing his customers
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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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It’s time to compare UK architecture’s apples and oranges again! This year’s prestigious prize shortlist includes a library, university buildings, a gallery, a controversial regeneration scheme and a home submerged in a Welsh hill
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City links: Augmented reality tourism, drunk seagulls, subway deserts and a failed zero-carbon city feature in this week’s roundup of the best city stories
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The Caribbean doesn’t get much more colourful than the 17th- and 18th-century colonial houses that bring a vibrancy to Curaçao’s capital city
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Slovakian photographer Mária Švarbová stages atmospheric shots of pastel-hued swimming pools, full of pristine waters and blood-red bathing caps
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Infamous for flaming a million pounds in the KLF, Jimmy Cauty is now smashing miniature windows in model villages. As the artist tours his tiny riot scenes, we caught up with him in Tottenham to talk Stonehenge and substandard graffiti
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Prosthetics may have offered a practical solution to injury after the first world war but, as a new exhibition shows, these sculptures for the body would also inspire master craftsman from Henry Moore to Charles and Ray Eames
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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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Dressed only in swirling body paint, they stormed through 1980s London – leaving a trail of chaos and confusion. Three decades on, they bare all about squats, Sellotape dresses and apple-bobbing in blood
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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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