Exhibitions
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Joachim Koester review – cowboys and indolence add up to pure bafflementIt’s hard to find meaning in the jerky gunslingers and praying mantises of this Danish video artist – but there’s plenty of scope for a nap
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Hoops, wheels and moose-heads: playtime in the world's most inhospitable placesHow do children play in refugee camps, aboriginal reserves and places ravaged by war? Photographer Mark Neville found out
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A Certain Kind of Light review – let there be mirror ballsAn exhibition on the theme of light is the latest to draw on the Arts Council’s huge national collection. But how illuminating is it?
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The charisma droids: today's robots and the artists who foresaw themRoboThespian and the world’s first automaton newsreader are the stars of the Science Museum’s Robots show. But did Da Vinci and Michelangelo beat them to it?
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Stolen Australia: the ferocious anti-colonial art of Helen JohnsonFrom fat landowners farting the national anthem to gentlemenly chaps passing round bribes, Helen Johnson tells the ugly truth about how Australia was carved up
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Why Ikea's flatpack refugee shelter won design of the yearIkea’s solar-powered Better Shelter lasts six times longer than a typical emergency tent and has already changed the lives of thousands of refugees around the world
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Red in tooth and bored: unimpressed zoo animals – in picturesEric Pillot photographs animals in captivity, amid poorly approximated backdrops of their natural habitats, for his award-winning series In Situ
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The art at the Biennale de la Biche off Guadeloupe is set to disappear into the sea, thereby mirroring the futility and emptiness of elite events like Venice BiennaleWelcome to the world's smallest art fair – on a disappearing speck of sand
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Amie Siegel's Strata review – from the depths of the Earth to the heights of excessAmie Siegel follows marble from quarry to tasteful, lifeless New York apartments. What will her cryptic excavations turn up?
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Tate Modern to reunite Giacometti's plaster Women of VeniceGathering of six sculptures for first time since they were made in 1956 will be highlight of retrospective for Swiss artist
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Adrift in a dreamworld – the genius of Michael Andrews makes us doubt our own eyesHe left behind 1950s Soho to spraypaint wondrous landscapes full of rocks, shadows and mystery. This show finally captures the brilliance of Michael Andrews
Bright lights and a bidet chandelier: Iran gets a blast of shocking colour