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Artist, whose pieces included garbage bags, inspired artists such as the Who guitarist Pete Townshend
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24 photographers who met at art school in London decided to document each New Year’s Day for 24 years, resulting in a poignant and serendipitous series of images as their lives take different paths. They began in 2004 – here is their work from 2017
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This year’s competition theme is Grow-Conserve and entries will be on show in Somerset House, London, from 9 to 28 March. Winners will be announced on 8 March
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Scott, best known as Sherlock’s Moriarty, is playing the highest-profile Hamlet since Benedict Cumberbatch took on the role in 2015. Here is an exclusive first look at the production
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After a chaotic ceremony, in which Moonlight eclipsed La La Land at the eleventh hour to win best picture, where did Emma Stone, Barry Jenkins and other stars head to, clutching their Oscars tightly?
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Raed al-Saleh, the head of the White Helmets – a volunteer rescue group that operates in rebel-held parts of Syria, gives an acceptance speech from Syria
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The historian and author of a new blockbuster take on Rome joined us live – and answered your questions on her desert island book pick, whether Ted Hughes got Ovid right and if she thinks the Romans civilised ‘savage’ Brits
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Among the PC reproaches to Damien Chazelle’s La La Land, the one that stands out for its sheer stupidity was that there are no gay couples in the film which ... Read More
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Recipe books from the Middle Ages reveal the extreme methods artists pursued to achieve their reds.
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Used as quality control, these haunting images were never meant to be public.
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The experimental musician and co-founder of the Velvet Underground reinterprets his back catalogue.
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From the deepest caves to the far reaches of space, National Geographic has been bringing the mysteries of the world – and beyond – to coffee tables since 1888
Deutsche Börse photography prize 'The cat in the coffin almost steals the show'