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Unfashionable and undemocratic, the old masters are due a makeover – not to push their prices up, but to ensure the widest possible audience enjoy them
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The LA artist is putting performers in a slowly flooding plastic box as part of London’s Burning festival – but it’s an omen of greater disasters to come
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The dazzling, haunting ‘combines’ at the heart of Tate Modern’s forthcoming retrospective were part of a private game between Rauschenberg and his peers and sometime lovers, Cy Twombly and Jasper Johns
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Time magazine photographer Joakim Eskildsen was commissioned to document life below the poverty line. What he discovered was shocking
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His ‘fan art’ exhibition tells the story of blockchain visionaries, bitcoin and the future of cryptocurrency through the mediums of cartoons and board games
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Late architect’s creation for Serpentine Gallery summer party will be the highlight of sculpture exhibition at stately home
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New York based self-taught artist Sarah Rosado recreates masterpieces using only oat flakes, cinnamon sticks and fruit
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A treasury of small wonders at the British Museum, multi-screen interactives to do your head in and a Michelangelo cartoon – all in your weekly art dispatch
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Aids hit America’s artist community hard, and the suffering of the plague years of the 1980s is brought vividly to life in a flawed but vital exhibition
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Globe-trotting documentary by Rem Koolhaas’s son Tomas finds the film-maker racing to keep up with his 71-year-old father and struggling to achieve objectivity
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Despite the city’s fine locations, the Liverpool Biennial is a bit of a mess – but a few jewels gleam amid the litter
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‘She wanted to be a model, but not many South African agencies accept LGBTI people as clients’
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We stood up for one photograph and lay down for another, before wandering back to our clothes and our normal lives
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Tokens no more: Amaal Said is empowering female creatives through her photography
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Photographer documents life in the drought-hit Murray-Darling basin: ‘An Australia I had always dreamed about finding’
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As Butlins in Bognor Regis welcomes thousands of holidaymakers, photographer David Levene joins the ranks of happy campers
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Matisse isn’t the only artist to have wielded a pair of scissors – Cut That Out showcases 50 designers and studios worldwide who are a true cut above
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This week 350 years ago, the Great Fire of London burned through 400 of the city’s streets. Matthew Green reveals the extraordinary structures lost in the blaze – from old St Paul’s to a riverside castle – and what survived, only to vanish later
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A photography book of distant hideaways around the world has Emma Love packing her rucksack
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With more than 400 high-rises planned, major survey shows residents want numbers curbed
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Nice towers ‘in the right place’ seem to be OK with most people. But with terms as vague as these, developers enjoy a free-for-all
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Photographer Julius Shulman visited the visionary modernist buildings of mid-century America – where sober geometries rub against playful details
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You Say You Want a Revolution, the V&A’s new exhibition, explores the birth of late-1960s counterculture that helped spawn Silicon Valley. Alex Needham takes a tour of where it all began, guided by former hippies and subversive visionaries
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They are the art stars of tomorrow. So what are they making? Slime fountains and love machines, find Grayson Perry and Gillian Wearing as they visit two degree shows – and recall their own student days
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Think you know your neighbourhood? A city walk with a difference shows how something as simple as holding hands can be a political – even dangerous – act
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From Da Vinci’s live animal mashups to a macabre giant skeleton, a horrifying new history of monsters gives our writer nightmares
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Colombian sculptor Doris Salcedo takes us on a tour of Bogotá and her studio
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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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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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Eyes on the prize The must-see art and design of autumn 2016