Art & design
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From Fife to Fitzrovia: portraits by Niall McDiarmid - in picturesNiall McDiarmid has spent seven years travelling the length and breadth of the UK photographing people he crosses paths with. Town to Town, his new book, features more than 60 portraits of inhabitants of some of the 200 towns he’s visited -
Frances Kearney's best photograph: a girl in a quarry with roadkill in each hand‘Sylvie was a 10-year-old vegetarian. She held the dead pheasants without flinching’
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Rare William Blake works to be exhibited in Sussex, where he livedExhibition includes loans from the British Museum, the Fitzwilliam, the V&A, and includes rare surviving copies of his books -
Escape artist: the life of a painter living on death rowWilliam A Noguera committed a brutal murder and has spent almost 30 years waiting for execution but in a new book, the artist explains how painting changed his life
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Passage to America: Stuart Klipper's panoramic portraits – in picturesFor nearly 30 years, photographer Stuart Klipper has travelled the US, capturing the defining characteristics of 50 states in his panoramic compositions, as well as journeying further afield to the Earth’s polar regions
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Talking points
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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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Wet docks, giant ducks and the zero-waste city: the best architecture and design of 2018Windermere catches a wave, the V&A unveils the city of tomorrow, and Hope to Nope harnesses the explosive power of graphic design
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Reviews
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Bushey Jewish Cemetery review – a place of dignity and easeElegant pavilions, a broad portico and thick walls of ‘rammed earth’ create a calm, unobtrusive £6m extension and 17,000 more burial spaces for the Jewish community of north-west London
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From Ear to Ear to Eye review – voices of battle and the bazaarFrom phone films to ballistics reports, testimony is central to this powerful survey of contemporary Arab art
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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
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Behind the veil: Iranian women cast off their hijabs – in picturesPhotographer Marinka Masséus travelled to Iran, where the hijab is mandatory, to capture women defiantly throwing their veils in the air
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The 20 photographs of the weekNew Year’s celebrations, Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and winter storms in the US - the week’s biggest news stories captured by the world’s best photojournalists
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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
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Historic Merz Barn art studio could move from Lake District to ChinaStone building used by influential German artist Kurt Schwitters may be sold due to lack of funds to maintain it, owners say
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Gavin Stamp obituaryArchitectural historian who campaigned to save notable buildings from destruction
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Unbuilt cities: the outrageous highway schemes left as roads to nowhereThe postwar passion for highway construction saw cities around the world carved up in the name of progress. But as communities fought back many schemes were abandoned – their half-built traces showing what might have been
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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
The big picture
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From Fife to Fitzrovia: portraits by Niall McDiarmidNiall McDiarmid has spent seven years travelling the length and breadth of the UK photographing people he crosses paths with. Town to Town, his new book, features more than 60 portraits of inhabitants of some of the 200 towns he’s visited
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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
Helen Maudsley on how to read art: ‘Learn to do what the picture tells you’