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‘Tears streamed down his face. He told me his son had died – his pride and joy – and that I looked just like him. I asked if he would dance for me’
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As plans for the Garden Bridge teeter, behold Boris’s most public design disasters, from Thomas Heatherwick’s mobile sweatbox to an Olympic white elephant
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Lights flicker, shelves gather dust and cables twist like snakes – all that’s missing from this high-tech workspace are workers, leaving you feeling like a lab rat in a maze
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New York art show The Keeper celebrates our poetic obsession with objects, but how many of us simply surround ourselves with familiar, reassuring rubbish?
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As her first solo show opens in New York, the Qatari-American artist talks about Gulf pop culture, gross veil fetishes – and why she’s not playing the ‘native informant’
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It’s claimed that our passion for narcissistic pictures is fuelling the growth of everything from lipstick to old-fashioned photobooths. Here’s a sector-by-sector breakdown
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The Fitzwilliam Museum has brought together some dazzling, intricate manuscripts, whose colours foreshadow modern art … in the middle ages
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Sistine Chapel buttocks are veiled, while Leonardo’s Leda was so saucy she was destroyed. But prudish censorship only confirms the pulling power of art
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For 20 years he hardly picked up his camera – now the Beckett-inspired Dubliner is the talk of this summer’s Arles festival
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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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Female photographers are given due recognition in three shows that recognise the pioneering work of Spain’s first female photojournalist, Juana Biarnés, Bauhaus mainstay Lucia Moholy and fashion snapper Louise Dahl-Wolfe
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There’s more to Eggleston’s everyday, extraordinary, infinitely various photographs of American life in the 60s and 70s than he would have us believe, as this captivating show reveals
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Photographer Emily Dryden and sculptor and actor Zahydé Pietri combine theatricality and organic produce in their series Fresh Faces
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The reaction to the attempted coup in Turkey, the aftermath of the Bastille Day attack, Chris Froome in the Tour de France, the Munich shooting – the best photography in news, culture and sport from around the world this week
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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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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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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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Indulge your spy-film fantasies at this cool clifftop hangout – a design classic by iconic architect César Manrique
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Images show designs for leafy Stratford waterfront and new outposts for Sadler’s Wells and V&A on site of 2012 Olympic park
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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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