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Photographer Matt Lever has been shooting the backstage action at fashion shows for almost two decades – and has seen everything from frantic repairs to gatecrashing workmen
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The Turner-prize winner has gone into his alchemist’s workshop for his biggest ever UK show, bringing out steel blobs and magnesium canoes. These layered histories of labour and chemistry are stupendous
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Staring into space as they watch TV or water the garden, the real-life subjects of Alec Dawson hint at vast reserves of despair and missed opportunity
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Cara Delevingne: more than a mere muse for male painters
Jonathan JonesCelebrated portraitist Jonathan Yeo has called Cara Delevingne the “perfect muse”, as he unveils a series of paintings of the model and actor. This patronising word belongs in a Victorian era of deluded lust -
The Lorne foreshore plays host to dozens of large-scale Australian sculptures, from a Stonehenge made of fridges to a wooden bench big enough for Ben-Hur
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Elizabeth Price has taken exhibits from Sir Arthur Evans’s landmark excavation of Knossos and brought them back to life
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Samuel J Wagstaff Jr – a New York aristocrat, curator and Robert Mapplethorpe’s lover – collected over 26,000 photographs in his lifetime, of everything from grisly medical images to eerie portraits
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Every generation has defined itself by rebellion. So where are the Generation Y art revolutionaries? Enter a world of corporate hijacks, Instagram breakdowns and fake frat parties
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Illegally placed domestic tableaux have been popping up in the German capital’s subway network. Either it’s the quirkiest Airbnb destination yet – or an artistic societal critique
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Enjoyed War and Peace? Then visit this showcase of Russian portraits whose artists share the sensitivity and searching unease of the writers they portray
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The late photographer’s images, which burn with desire yet remain ice-cold, reveal rough gay sex as both aesthetically conservative and politically radical
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Giorgione’s reputation was eclipsed by Titian, but this early avant garde icon revolutionised the Renaissance with his raw portrayals of human weakness
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The quintessential photographer of everyday Britain answered your questions – catch up on his views about a Brexit, which Soviet space dog is his favourite, what he thinks of people who call him ‘cruel’ and more
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Leibovitz photographed the Nobel Peace prize winner in her classroom in Birmingham for a new exhibition, which opened in San Francisco on Tuesday
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Our father was in charge of us for the day, which was quite unusual
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The despoilment of the American landscape is the focus of a new book by David T Hanson
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‘Ali left his home, school and friends behind in Iraq, crossing border after border. That’s his uncle’s hand wiping away his tears’
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These images of everyone from presidents to paupers show the tourist’s view of Egypt that we know – and the backstreets we don’t
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For our latest readers’ assignment we asked you for photographs of your architecture around the world. Here are some of our favourites
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As a survey of the finest young practices comes out, here is some of the work by the architects who are showing a rare degree of craft and innovation
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Letters: I’m writing to object in the strongest possible terms to Christopher Wren’s designs for the new St Paul’s Cathedral
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Winning concept has cantilever on Cornish mainland and another on the island fortress, the two stretching out but not quite meeting
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Tatty washing lines on backstreet terraces, natty Oxford students on bikes, and a man blowing bubbles for the joy of it – foreign photographers best capture British idiosyncrasies on the evidence of a new exhibition curated by Martin Parr
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Her band were one of the leading lights of Britpop – but when it all fell apart Frischmann regrouped in a quieter corner of the US and is now a visual artist
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The photographer was a pioneer of ‘squalid realism’ with his images of his parents’ dreary existence in the Black Country. Now he’s turning their life into a feature film
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The creator of the hugely influential London Underground typeface – which celebrates its centenary this year – was a modest typographic purist
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Created by the masters of modernism, the mid-century homes of California are too small for today’s super-rich – hence a conference about how to preserve them
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The artist says the situation is a ‘big violation of human rights’
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Watch the trailer for a new documentary about the photographer whose black and white pictures of gay erotica shocked Americans
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Three months after the terrorist attacks in the French capital, Jean Jullien designs a new image of hope out of the tears of the past
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