Art and design, photography and architecture
Art & design
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The British photographer celebrates memorabilia of the first canines in space in a new book -
Ed van der Elsken captures a carefree moment between takes of a 1979 Dutch movie
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Led By Donkeys, Shane Meadows and Carly Rae Jepson – portraits commissioned by the Observer in May 2019 -
Floods, waves, flowers and lava – the last seven days, as captured by the world’s best photojournalists -
Letters: Krasner’s husband is referred to throughout your review of her retrospective, writes Richard Ingham
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4 out of 5 stars.
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In the latest of our Guardian Print Shop series we have an image of sheep in a Herefordshire field at sunset, by Christopher Thomond -
‘Not knowing if anyone would walk in gave me energy and inspired my powerful stance’ -
The British artist has been playing with the techniques of image-making since 2007 – producing intriguing works that are now collected in a photobook
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An exhibition at the Guildhall Art Gallery, opening on 31 May, brings together works from the 17th century to the present day to show how the city’s architecture has inspired resident and visiting artists -
How do you build the perfect town? You send for Public Practice, the initiative that’s tempting architects back into the public sector -
Overgrown and weathered, many historical monuments are disappearing as public funds for culture fail to match modern Italy’s inheritance -
The bugged shoes and poison brollies are fun and fascinating. But why are the sections about state-sponsored torture and assassination so uncritical?
Visual arts
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Works depicting dozens of female politicians and campaigners to be introduced -
E-Werk Luckenwalde will offer workshops and studio space for artists squeezed out of Berlin -
This year’s LensCulture Visual Storytelling Awards encompass a global set of artists documenting the world around them from big moments to small
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3 out of 5 stars.
Theatrical, comical, tawdry and tenuous – self-portraits by the likes of Francis Bacon, Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons and Cindy Sherman sit alongside Rembrandt’s great late painting, but he is simply the most present -
4 out of 5 stars.
Sea Star: Sean Scully review 'Turner gets his cobwebs blown away'
4 out of 5 stars.National Gallery, London
Sean Scully’s work has been placed alongside a much-misunderstood seascape by Turner. The result is a fascinating exhibition full of insight, power and glorious melting colour -
5 out of 5 stars.
Edvard Munch: Love and Angst – 'ripples of trauma hit you like a bomb'
5 out of 5 stars.From his sunsets and deathbeds to the world-warping Scream, the Norwegian created apocalyptic masterpieces that are brutal, refined – and addictive -
2 out of 5 stars.
The Helmet Heads review Henry Moore should never have gone near a chisel
2 out of 5 stars.This exhibition invites you to compare the British artist’s work to antique armoury and Picasso – both show him up as slow, ponderous and complacent
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The 2019 Wellcome photography prize: close focus on the human condition