art & design
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Big nothings: your art on the theme of zeroFor our last readers’ art assignment Director at Modern Art Oxford Paul Hobson invited you to share your art on the theme of zero. Here are some of his favourites, with captions by the artists themselves -
Cardboard, chewing gum, celebrity spectres: outsider art at Sotheby’sExhibition at London auction house features ‘hugely inspiring’ work by artists creating outside the mainstream
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Radical women and climate change: what to expect from the US art world in 2018A look ahead at the next 12 months suggests a varied landscape encompassing diverse work based on imprisonment, civil rights and the Vietnam war -
Bamboo worlds: the beauty of Chinese aquaculture – in picturesIn Coastal Geometries, architect and photographer Tugo Cheng conjures minimalist compositions from the fishing nets and bamboo poles on the coast of Fujian. It is a world that’s vanishing, since this vital culture is threatened by rapid development
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So what's the most expensive shot ever? The best photography shows of 2018Andreas Gursky finds new power in our post-truth world, hyenas and Brooklyn gangs go on the prowl, and Antoine d’Agata has a close encounter of the narcotic kind
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From Picasso at his mightiest to gods of American cool: the hottest art shows of 2018Picasso reveals his most erotic year, Andreas Gursky predicts the post-truth era, O’Keeffe and Hopper hit Oxford – and the only way is Sussex for William Blake in our exhibitions preview
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Siberian warriors and a Christmas cracker of surrealist fun – the week in artThe Natural History Museum has a whale of an exhibition, a Games of Thrones world comes to life at the British Museum and Susan Philipsz finds her voice
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reviews
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The Arborealists: The Art of Trees 2017; Into the Woods: Trees in Photography/ Trees in Illustration – reviewThree complementary exhibitions reveal the calming qualities of trees and their rich symbolic possibilities
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AT&T building: the threat to New York’s ‘tablet of stone’Philip Johnson’s 80s AT&T skyscraper on Madison Avenue is a Manhattan landmark. Now plans are afoot to turn it into a glass-fronted shopping arcade…
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Thomas Bock review – an extraordinary glimpse of 19th-century TasmaniaShipped as a convict to Tasmania in 1823, Thomas Bock made his name there with portraits of exceptional empathy, both of colonists and those they displaced
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Fatal gunfire silences the gallery – From Ear to Ear to Eye reviewNottingham Contemporary
A shooting range recreating the thunk of Israeli soldiers firing at Palestinian teenagers is the highlight of this survey of Arab sound art, which captures responses to conflict and upheaval in the Middle East -
Peter Doig review – sun, sea and savagery in a troubled paradiseIn these grave and noble paintings of our catastrophic age, the Scottish artist uses lurid colours to create bold beach scenes haunted by murders and mangy lions
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'A glowing lantern with a bamboo cocoon' … new Maggie's centre hides its battle scars wellIt caused outrage – with cries of ‘monstrous carbuncle’ triggering a rival scheme and a judicial review. As Steven Holl’s translucent box is unveiled, our critic asks: is it time Maggie’s stopped hiring starchitects?
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Hitchcock, Hepburn and Dirty Harry: vintage movie posters – in picturesProduced for classic films such as Psycho, Roman Holiday and The Italian Job, these rare original Hollywood posters are now all worth a pretty penny as cultural antiques
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The big picture: New Year’s Day in 1940s New YorkUS soldiers and civvies recover from New Year’s Eve celebrations at Grand Central Station circa 1940. But is all as it seems to be?
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Dubai adds the world's largest picture-frame to its skyline - video
Building has 93-metre long viewing gallery with glass-floored walkway almost 150 metres above the city
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Dubai Frame: UAE's latest surreal landmark frames a controversyArchitect’s ‘stolen building’ accusation overshadows opening of 50-storey portal almost a decade after it was first designed
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Letter: How Brighton public library opened doors for Jill LeverMargaret Whittle writes: As library assistants in Brighton, Jill Lever and I would creep along a tunnel that led to the Royal Pavilion
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Northern bell: Rochdale town hall put forward as Big Ben stand-inMinister suggests chimes of Gothic masterpiece could be used on ITV and BBC while London tower is silenced for repairs
the big picture
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Sport from aboveWatching sport from ground level puts the viewer right in the middle of the action but, if seen from above, the same event can take on a strikingly different perspective
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Alternative election posters: from psychic love waves to Chicken Cottage pledgesDoes your vote go to Cornelia Parker’s right-sniffing dogs, Bedwyr Williams’ comic-book villains or Corbyn’s manifesto rebranded as a fashion choice?
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Judy Chicago on the Beatles: 'They represent things we have lost – hope and freedom'For Sgt Pepper’s 50th anniversary, the great psychedelic visionary of feminist art has created a giant mop-top mural inspired by Fixing a Hole – a song that sums up what she has spent her entire career doing
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Flat caps and bowler hats: Neil Libbert's bygone Britain – in picturesFor six decades, the celebrated Guardian photojournalist has chronicled everyday British life. Here, he trains his lens on postwar austerity – and flying cats
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Warriors in weaponised kilts: where Outlander creator Diana Gabaldon gets her ideas fromThe author of the cult Highland time travel series transports our writer back to the era of tartan onesies and exploding sporrans
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The black art: wet plate collodion photography – video
Photographer Adrian Cook uses one of the oldest photographic processes to make unique images on aluminium plates. We join him in his portable darkroom for a shoot on Sydney Harbour
Marilyn Stafford's best photograph: Albert Einstein in his lounge