art & design
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Joseph Szabo was a frustrated high-school teacher in need of inspiration – so he started photographing his students, and captured all the angst and excitement of being caught between childhood and adulthood
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Artist Gillian Wearing will be first woman to create a statue for the public space with her monument to Millicent Fawcett
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Artist and White Cube gallery offer discount for the striking work, which will be shown in death-themed display
talking points
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Eric Gill was one of the great British artists of the 20th century – and a sexual abuser of his own daughters. A new exhibition at Ditchling asks: how far should an artist’s life affect our judgment of their work?
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reviews
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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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From epic vistas to the churn of industry, 19th-century American photographers captured a country beginning to define its identity
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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
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By cutting up comic books into tiny fragments and reassembling them, Ben Turnbull builds fiendishly complex visions of war and American culture
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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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Some proposals for Trump’s border wall may look like spoofs, but they provide a fascinating window into the lurid anxieties of middle America
the big picture
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Joseph Szabo was a frustrated high-school teacher in need of inspiration – so he started photographing his students, and captured all the angst and excitement of being caught between childhood and adulthood
you may have missed
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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
'Freud would have had a field day' Sidney Nolan and the menage à trois that made him