Art & design
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Detroit-born, London-based photographer Peter Zelewski is fascinated by the bond between twins -
The new-look Old Vic makes a virtue of its past and injects some drama into the foyer. And when will Denise Scott Brown get the respect she deserves?
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A Hollywood film star, a Labour activist and a boxing match all feature in this showcase of the best commissioned photography by the Observer in September -
The Brett Kavanaugh hearing, Paris fashion week, protests in Gaza and migrants in Greece – the week captured by the world’s best photojournalists. -
With paintings so similar their origins have been disputed for centuries, these giants of Italian art are now being exhibited together for the first time at London’s National Gallery
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Celebrities, intellectuals, icons: Susan Wood shot the most celebrated women of the 20th century, unaware she was chronicling a revolution. She relives her great assignments – and the hottest gossip
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Using the fast-moving skills he honed as a table tennis champ, Paul Trevor wandered through London’s financial district and a market in Brick Lane, taking spontaneous closeups. His work appears in the new show In Your Face -
Photos taken in 1917 by cousins Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths were cause of huge controversy
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The designer of the Eden Project and Waterloo station’s international terminal awarded the UK’s highest accolade for architecture -
Artist’s stained-glass creation, The Queen’s Window, celebrates Elizabeth II’s reign -
Eight Australian Institute of Architecture’s gold medal winners nominate a selection of great Australian buildings. As part of the 12 th Sydney Architecture festival, on Saturday, a panel event at the Sydney Opera House will discuss the question ‘what makes a building truly great’ -
If online likes for stark architecture translate into concrete action, so much the better, says writer Steve Rose
Visual arts
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Hard-hitting works by Weimar iconoclasts, Yoko Ono lends support to Pussy Riot, and Lucy Skaer explores the desire to collect -
Edinburgh’s dynamic visual arts scene is celebrated in the 15th annual art festival with more than 50 exhibitions at more than 45 venues -
4 out of 5 stars.
From Judy Chicago to Margaret Harrison, this fascinating documentary tells the story of the female artists who rejected the established order in the 70s
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Observer archive - the postman's picnic, 2 October 1966