art & design
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‘It is quite petrifying’: designer JW Anderson on his first exhibitionLandmark fashion meets great sculpture in the designer’s ambitious new show -
GF Watts: the Victorian painter who inspired ObamaPaintings by GF Watts have influenced figures as diverse as EM Forster and Barack Obama. Two hundred years after his birth, he stands out as one of the most distinctive – and elusive – painters of his times
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Pieter Bruegel the Younger’s Visit to the Farmhouse: imitation can be flatteryThe Younger Bruegel made a living copying his father’s works and managed to preserve the details that turned peasant life into high art -
From Michelangelo to Rauschenberg: this week’s best UK exhibitionsThe world-famous artist’s brief yet productive collaboration, plus the renowned American painter’s dazzling and ingenious creations
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The beauty of art can counter Islamophobia – but it won't be easyAn Arab and Islamic art museum is opening in New York to ‘challenge misconceptions’ – but has the US already made up its mind?
talking points
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Gustav Metzger: an artist who tore down the old to build the newThe German artist, who has died aged 90, could make art out of trees, newspapers, fridges or cars – all of it designed to fight capitalism
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reviews
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A World View: John Latham; Speak – a time-bending experienceFrom proto-psychedelic film to book chewing, the hardcore conceptual art of John Latham continues to inspire
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The cat in the coffin almost steals the showLandscapes at night, a hallucinatory road trip, ghetto life after the LA riots and a dead pet … our critic weighs the contenders
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Fears, fantasies and upheaval in the home of the braveRoyal Academy, London
Dance marathons, dustbowl farms, brawling sailors, impoverished cotton-pickers … Adrian Searle takes a journey through 1930s America in a gripping show
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The surreal world of Sophie CalleCalle has long found beauty in the bizarre – her appearance on the Deutsche Börse photography prize shortlist is overdue
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Jasper Havoc in a London skip‘He wasn’t always in drag but he was in permanent diva mode, louche and funny’
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The 20 photographs of the weekThe ongoing battle for Mosul, the eviction of the protesters at the Oceti Sakowin camp, Donald Trump aboard Marine One and Milan fashion week – the news of the week captured by the world’s best photojournalists
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The 90s punks of BelfastRicky Adam documented the grassroots punk scene of the Warzone collective in late 90s Belfast – complete with spiked hair, impromptu naps and confused kids
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The visionary architects who shaped JapanA tiny teahouse perched high atop tree trunks, a facade that’s shaped like a face … A new exhibition at the Barbican shows how the private house has inspired some of Japan’s most extraordinary architecture
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Why Neville and Giggs' Manchester towers are despisedWith its flawed design and lack of affordable housing, the footballers’ St Michael’s project faces fierce opposition. But an investment-hungry council isn’t listening
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Pritzker prize for architecture won by little known Catalan trioThe most prestigious award in architecture goes to three-person Spanish company who avoid the international limelight and ‘flee from fashions’
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Francis Kéré becomes first African architect of Serpentine pavilionThe architect is planning to bring one of his characteristically stripped-back structures, honed in the villages of his native Burkina Faso, to leafy west London
the big picture
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Gaza Girls: rites of passage in Palestine – in picturesThere may be bombs dropping and frequent power cuts, but the women of Gaza still get married, record songs, surf and ride horses. Photographer Monique Jaques’s new book celebrates their tenacity
you may have missed
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Your art on the theme of qualityWe asked you to share your art on the theme of quality. National Maritime Museum curator Quintin Colville has selected his favourites
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I’m most interested in the emotional qualities of thingsThe Liverpool-born sculptor on how nature complicates art, and what he’s learned from teaching and living in Europe
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From art to selfies – my lifelong affair with photographyObserver photographer Eamonn McCabe reflects on his career and his new TV series
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Factum Arte: the art copyists giving the Renaissance a renaissanceWith their immaculate replicas of everything from Tutankhamun’s tomb to Italian architecture, this Madrid company is bringing ancient civilisations to life
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Inside Banksy's Walled Off hotel in BethlehemBritish street artist Banksy unveils his new Walled Off hotel on Friday. The 10-room establishment is situated next to the barrier wall at Bethlehem
Jonathan Jones on Howard Hodgkin Farewell to a matchless master of colour