art & design
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Klimt and Basquiat sales could help Sotheby's smash London recordAuction of impressionist, modern and surrealist art next month has combined pre-sale estimate of nearly £400m -
Let the pros show you how it's doneDBC Pierre wrote in a fever, Frank Turner dabbled in thrash and Nikki Amuka-Bird jumped off a cliff. Artists reveal how they got to the top – and how you can too
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The 90s punks of BelfastRicky Adam documented the grassroots punk scene of the Warzone collective in late 90s Belfast – complete with spiked hair, impromptu naps and confused kids -
Art gallery criticised over neo-Nazi artwork and hosting racist speakersArtists and campaigners call for closure of the LD50 gallery after accusing it of promoting ‘hate speech not free speech’ but owner criticises protesters
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Francis Kéré becomes first African architect of Serpentine pavilionThe architect is planning to bring one of his characteristically stripped-back structures, honed in the villages of his native Burkino Faso, to leafy west London
in pictures
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Frank Brangwyn and Yoshijiro Urushibara's collaborationsFrank Brangwyn was an English former apprentice of William Morris, while Yoshijiro Urushibara was an expert Japanese woodblock artist. In the early part of the 20th century, they made prints together that blended their artistic styles and showed their shared adoration of nature
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talking points
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Ivory tells the history of the world – it must never be bannedUK legislation to ban ivory products from across history would criminalise some of the greatest art the world has seen. We need reason, not passion, in the fight against poaching
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Why the sublime violence of volcanoes will never lie dormantA new exhibition shows how scientists have tried to understand the mayhem of volcanoes, and how artists have embraced their sheer terror
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reviews
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Wolfgang Tillmans: 2017; Eduardo Paolozzi review – from the chaos of timeWolfgang Tillmans turns an empathetic, indeterminate eye on anything and everything in this superb Tate survey
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Richard Mosse: Incoming – shows the white-hot misery of the migrant crisisThe Irish artist follows migrants with a thermal military camera as they flee Syria, Iraq and elsewhere, turning them into a teeming mass of ghosts
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A rollercoaster ride around the worldTate Modern, London
Cities from the sky, cigarette still lifes and sunset drives … the German’s swirling show has got the lot – even a room to dance in
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The director of Grease by his pool‘Randal Kleiser kept farm animals at his LA ranch house but treated them as pets’
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A boy with a gun at Michael X's HQ‘He was only 10 but I was scared. He handled the gun with a sense of purpose’
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Playtime in the world's most inhospitable placesHow do children play in refugee camps, aboriginal reserves and places ravaged by war? Photographer Mark Neville found out
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A balloon-seller in front of a filthy Indian power plant‘These places were initially located outside the city, to protect the air, but urban areas have expanded so fast they’re back inside’
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The female street photographers of InstagramThe art of street photography was long dominated by men and the ‘male gaze’, but new project Her Side of the Street celebrates women’s role in the practice
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'Forest cities': the radical plan to save China from air pollutionStefano Boeri, the architect famous for his plant-covered skyscrapers, has designs to create entire new green settlements in a nation plagued by dirty air
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The day Le Corbusier took me for lunch on the French RivieraIt’s 1958, and a starstruck art and architecture fan Heidi Weber flies to th South of France to meet her design hero for a memorable meal
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Save Dunelm House from the wrecking ballDurham’s student union building, once graced by Thelonious Monk, is a brutalist gem in need of renovation, not demolition
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Mies’s Mansion House Square: the best building London never had?Mies van der Rohe’s plans for an office tower in the City were scuppered by Prince Charles’ criticism and Margaret Thatcher’s fear of new public space – yet this tale has as much to do with shifts in public opinion against modernist architecture
the big picture
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Palm Springs by moonlight – in picturesThe Australian photographer Tom Blachford discovered a dark side to the desert oasis of Palm Springs, shooting its modernist housing by moonlight
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Iran gets a blast of shocking colourHow will British ‘colour activist’ David Batchelor go down in a country where vibrant hues are all but banned? Will his lavatorial light land him in trouble?
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Olafur Eliasson’s cultural highlightsThe artist on his admiration for documentary maker Adam Curtis, Ethiopian jazz poetry and the meditative power of archery
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The forgotten artist who captured Scotland's life and soulChildren from the slums, bleak seascapes, village fishermen at work … the vibrant visions of Joan Eardley are finding a new following
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A state visit to Britain for the first coupleThe US’s most famous, and most parodied painting is about to visit London for the first time. We examine the many interpretations of Grant Wood’s masterpiece
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Standing Rock protesters are warning us to save what we canSaudi Arabian artist Ahmed Mater joins protesters at Standing Rock to celebrate their victory
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The artist’s hidden tribute to a sold-off LondonThe street artist Stik set out to ask the denizens of Old Shoreditch how his new mural should reflect their gentrified neighbourhood
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On what turns a picture into a masterpieceRembrandt’s perfect drawing, Caravaggio’s invention of Hollywood lighting, Monet capturing a moment in time. David Hockney and critic Martin Gayford discuss the craft behind the greatest art
No one should demand the closure of galleries – even for far-right artworks
UK news Art gallery criticised over neo-Nazi artwork and hosting racist speakers