art & design
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Amid bigotry and intimidation, transgender artists create images to empower their communities and normalize the myriad complexities of their experiences
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From wild cats to catalogues to a fake apeman, a new show at the Wellcome Collection explores our attempts to explain the natural world
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Helen Marten says she will split her winnings with the three other nominees as ‘hierarchical position of art prizes is flawed’
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Anna Shustikova, winner of the Royal Photographic Society’s under-30s Gold Award, is a documentary photographer and writer in Moscow, whose images of Russian weddings show a clash of tradition and modernity
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Design Museum, London
From the secrets of Grindr to 3D death masks and the shocking truth about jumper fabric, this is a fun ramble through the zeitgeist (but don’t worry, there are still floor lamps) -
Audiences at The Touching Contract have to sign a form that lets performers touch them – in the manner of a child, a sick relative, a doctor and even a predator
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In her series Modern Girl, artist Dina Goldstein updates 1930s Chinese adverts to lampoon our quest for the perfect lifestyle
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Van Gogh's lost drawings: unconvincing, but does anyone care in a post-truth art world?
Jonathan JonesThe Van Gogh museum says the 65 newly discovered drawings are fakes – these flaccid sketches certainly lack the spirit of the artist’s greatest period -
In the 1990s, having an age limit on Turner prize nominees dovetailed with a young punk energy in British art. But it’s now a pointless and conservative rule
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Adrian Searle goes beyond the beaded curtain into a theatrical world of flooded rooms and whispering strangers at the Palais de Tokyo
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Switch House, Tate Modern, London
From the tears of Man Ray to the Paris of Robert Frank and the manspread of Salvador Dali, this astounding collection is a history of modernist photography -
A pink octopus, an albino camel, a bronze slug … a menagerie of curious creatures slyly evoke the mysteries of the animal kingdom
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The photographer’s latest exhibit, Rock and Roll Icons, gives fans of Bruce Springsteen, Tina Turner, Queen and Bon Jovi the chance to see their idols up close
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The photographer, famous for his huge, detailed panoramas, has joined forces with the techno pioneer for a show that caters to the swiping generation
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Mary Turner first began photographing the families of Irish Traveller heritage living at Dale Farm in south-east England in 2009
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Why there's no such thing as an iconic image
Stuart FranklinHis image of a man blocking tanks in Tiananmen Square captivated the world. But the Magnum photographer now believes the ‘iconic’ image is dead -
Event provides a platform for young photographers working to change the view of Africa as a continent of the desperate
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To mark this year’s UrbanPhotoFest theme of ‘photography, memory and archive’, our readers shared old pictures and memories of cities around the world
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The museum can now show its whole collection – but John Pawson’s blonde wood conversion of an imperial relic could have been so much more exciting
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Delays, acrimony and an €860m price tag can’t detract from the beauty of Herzog & de Meuron’s new concert hall. But will it win over the citizens who footed the bill?
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Architects from Amsterdam to Lagos are building on water to try to tackle the twin urban pressures of population density and climate change
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Poundbury, the Prince of Wales’s traditionalist village in Dorset, has long been mocked as a feudal Disneyland. But a growing and diverse community suggests it’s getting a lot of things right
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In her series Modern Girl, artist Dina Goldstein updates 1930s Chinese adverts to lampoon our quest for the perfect lifestyle
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