art & design
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Jonathan Meades on Mussolini's architectureHe made a documentary about architecture in Nazi Germany and followed the Stalinist heritage trail. Now the film-maker is tackling Il Duce – one fascist monument at a time -
Francis Bacon's painting gloves are going to auction – praise be!The paint-splattered gloves are proof that we worship artists’ relics – from Turner’s paintbox to Pollock’s brushes – as traces of genius in their own right
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Los Angeles and New York artists tackle the inequity of real estateFrom a crazy golf course in LA’s Skid Row funded by Mike Kelley’s estate, to New Yorkers asking Who Stole the House?, artists are addressing the cost of property -
Mumbai's answer to Beryl CookWhy is Tate Modern exhibiting an old-fashioned, second-rate artist whose art recalls the kind of British painters it would never let through its doors?
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Photographing the real Barack ObamaOver two historic terms, official White House photographer Pete Souza has chronicled the most intimate, candid and comical moments of Barack Obama’s presidency
in pictures
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Martí Guixé's food designs: hands-free lollipops and edible pie graphs – in picturesCatalan designer Martí Guixé is known for imaginative food inventions – from instructive party cups to a lollipop with a plantable orange seed and he’s bringing a family-friendly exhibition to Melbourne
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‘Poverty is often looked at in isolation, but it is an American problem’Photographer Matt Black discovered that it was possible to drive from California to the east coast without once losing sight of America’s poor
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Caravaggio and the art of dietingThe luscious banquets painted by the Renaissance master were held up as a good example of healthy eating this week by the National Obesity Forum – but were they really that nutritious?
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reviews
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Walter De Maria – land art pioneer's work comes to groundGagosian, London
De Maria’s art is electrifying outside, but inside this show, his untouchable steel sculptures and uninspiring statements fail to tingle the spine -
High-society selfies by quintessential postmodernistThe grotesqueness of haute couture and high society come alive in the self-portraits of one the most influential photo artists of the late 20th century
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Holding a mirror up to love and lossThis yearning, enigmatic show brings together a series of fragmentary images from 1991 – the year González-Torres’s lover died of an Aids-related illness
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Adrian Flowers obituaryMaster photographer who specialised in precisely staged advertising images and celebrity portraits
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Paws galore: vintage photos of Fido and friends – in picturesLibby Hall spent three decades trawling auctions and car-boot sales for vintage postcards and photos of people and their pets, some dating back to the 1850s
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Magnum's new breed of photographers – in picturesA new exhibition at Magnum in London showcases the work of six photographers new to the agency
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The 20 photographs of the weekThe ongoing refugee crisis in Europe, the violent demonstrations in France, Chile and Nairobi, the volcanic eruptions in Indonesia – the best photography in news, culture and sport from around the world this week
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'During the gig, David Bowie told the crowd he was retiring. People were crying'Malcolm Green greets David Bowie as he arrives at London’s Hammersmith Odeon, 3 July 1973
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Snap judgment: how photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue captured the momentA photographer who happened to catch the spirit of early 20th-century France, or a visionary who turned the snapshot into art? William Boyd celebrates the work of Lartigue
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Europe is a common market that trades in ideas as well as materialsLetters: The forging of cultural connections and the search for common understanding cannot be brushed aside as the romantic drivel of the so-called ‘luvvies’
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Syrian troops looting ancient city Palmyra, says archaeologistCultural heritage expert claims off-duty regime soldiers have been carrying out illegal excavations at Unesco site
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Mosque, circus, Neverland UK … the best failed ideas for Battersea Power StationWith development of London’s best-known riverside ruin finally under way, Peter Watts remembers what could have been – from a Noddyland theme park to a rubbish incinerator or Chelsea’s football ground
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Different generations are sharing homes again. It sounds awful to me, but it’s spawning plenty of good ideasLiving in boxes (and thinking out of them) might solve our housing crisis
the big picture
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1960s Suffolk workers head to the pubPhotographer Libby Hall documented her local pub in Leiston, Suffolk, as the village tipped into the modern world with the arrival of the Sizewell power station next door
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The most dazzling art and design of summer 2016Dive into underwater cities, swoon over O’Keeffe’s ravishing blooms, and swoosh down Carsten-Höller’s slides and hang out with Hockney and his friends in LA
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I keep hair. And I'm afraid of cheeseIn an exclusive preview of his new show, Turner winner Martin Creed gives us a guided tour round old cars, smashed chairs and plastic bags from under his fridge
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Meet the Anatomical VenusThey were reclining beauties with ecstatic expressions – and lift-out intestines. Enter the necrophiliac world of 18th-century anatomical models
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Maria Lassnig: under the skinLassnig’s paintings of herself as a robot, a monster and an elderly naked gunslinger have seen her hailed as the perfect artist for the age of the selfie. But her ‘body awareness’ work is about more than just surface
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The making of a London replicaDestroyed by Isis in October 2015, a 2000-year-old arch from Palmyra, Syria, has been meticulously recreated through 3D printing for Trafalgar Square
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Ai Weiwei visits migrants at Greek border campThe artist says the situation is a ‘big violation of human rights’
Dalí in a diving helmet How the Spaniard almost suffocated bringing surrealism to Britain