art & design
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From epic vistas to the churn of industry, 19th-century American photographers captured a country beginning to define its identity
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Guardian picture editors have chosen nine readers’ pictures as part of a new series showcasing the best of your work and giving feedback
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With their murderous rabbits, awkward graffiti and awesome nicknames, the business cards handed out by Chicago gang members in the 1970s and 80s are a peek into a violent underworld
talking points
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For this month’s art project, Anthony Plant, Director of the Sidney Nolan Trust, invites you to share your artwork on the theme of spray paint
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reviews
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‘I made sure you would see there was a white man under this black skin, because prejudice is only skin deep’
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Remote Australian town Coober Pedy is riddled with holes from its opal mining industry. Photographer Antoine Bruy captured its decline – and its luminous strangeness
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Germany’s top politician is intensely private, but Herlinde Koelbl has been meeting her once a year for decades - to take her portrait and ask the same three questions. What has the photographer learned about Europe’s longest-serving leader?
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Niger-born photographer CushmoK blends surrealism and poetry in his ‘small, dreamlike sculptures’
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From the shelled-out mall that never opened to a family reclaiming their possessions from rubble, Pulitzer-winning photographer Sergey Ponomarev captured Syria’s tragedy from the inside
the big picture
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From epic vistas to the churn of industry, 19th-century American photographers captured a country beginning to define its identity
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Blending old-world charm with a uniquely provocative eroticism, Ellen von Unwerth’s photographs are a riot of fun and sly subversion. Richard Godwin hears why we need to take ourselves less seriously
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Photographer Scarlett Hooft Graafland collaborates with people living in remote areas, making vivid tableaux that heighten reality
video
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The artist talks about the Harmony Art Collective and its series of murals celebrating cultural diversity
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