Art & design
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Embroidered cultural heroes – in picturesMexican textile artist Victoria Villasana applies colourful embroidery to pictures of artists, musicians and politicians -
The Great British Seaside – in picturesBritish beach photography from the 1960s to the present, featuring work by Martin Parr, Tony Ray-Jones, Simon Roberts and David Hurn
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The 20 photographs of the weekMudslides in California, Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and airstrikes in Syria - the week’s biggest news stories captured by the world’s best photojournalists -
Bridget Riley dazzles, Turner is a winter wonder and Damien goes dotty ... again – the week in artThe abstract artist unveils brilliant new work, Hirst’s spot paintings invade a Palladian mansion and Turner’s watercolours bring magic to Edinburgh – all in your weekly dispatch
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Neave Brown obituaryArchitect whose street-based housing projects showed great empathy for people and won him the RIBA royal gold medal
News
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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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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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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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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Thomas Ruff’s ma.r.s. 01–II: a pink-tinged haze of alien clouds and exotic fictionThe astronomy nut’s images of the red planet are a comment on how modern photography is doctored in the digital era
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Life in London's working-class pubs – in picturesWe Could Be Heroes, an exhibition of images by Marco Sconocchia, is billed as ‘bringing to life the world and underworld of modern Britain’
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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
Video
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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
Summers past: why the British do like to be beside the seaside