art & design
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Architect Peter Eisenman has said he couldn’t build his Berlin Holocaust memorial today, as Europe has become too antisemitic. But the very way culture has framed the Holocaust has allowed right-wing populism to flourish
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This year’s winner is only the seventh woman to win Britain’s top art prize in its 32-year history, but an overview of all past winners and judges suggests that imbalance is changing
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For 40 years, photographer Neal Slavin has photographed people in groups, from cemetery workers to snooker players, at work or at play – and the result is an archive full of joy and dignity
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Museum pays £1m for Joris Hoefnagel’s painting showing palace in Surrey, built to rival home of French king
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A repository in Manhattan houses over one million archaeological items found in the city from saucepan-sized oysters to a cow bone douche
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Alison Jackson says ‘litigious’ president could have chilling effect on artistic freedom as she publishes book featuring Trump lookalike
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in pictures
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Polly Braden and David Campany started taking photographs of the Lea Valley in 2004, before London won its Olympic bid and the area began to change dramatically
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talking points
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We asked you to share your art on the theme of North Sea. Adrian Locke, senior curator at the Royal Academy of Arts, has selected his favourites
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Martin Creed's bleak anti-carol should be Christmas No 1
Jonathan JonesWith his song It’s You, Turner-winning artist Martin Creed has made the perfect antidote to the commercialised positivity of Christmas -
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This thrilling retrospective gives us Rauschenberg whole, from his collages to his ballets to his own wild performances
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Fierce, mordant Monica Bonvicini aims to annoy at every turn in this bracing first UK survey
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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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When she knew her mother was dying, Celine Marchbank wanted to capture memories of her. She talks about how the photographs became something they could share
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Photographer and artist who chronicled the changing face of rural Alabama
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The veteran photographer tackles the effects of climate change in his new book and shares phone numbers of deniers, such as Vice President-elect Mike Pence
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‘I know it’s ugly and awkward – but I will steal a photograph if I really need to have it’
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As modernist prints from his collection go on show, the star tells how photography became his second greatest passion
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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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A billion-dollar beanpole, a social housing revolution, a powerful memorial in Norway and the Tate’s wondrous watchtower … our critic picks his 2016 architecture highlights
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1 Undershaft will be second tallest building in western Europe after the Shard and will include a free public viewing gallery
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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?
the big picture
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The photographer of the Marlboro man turned his lens on a much more mysterious side of America in amazing colour-saturated shots of the US
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An extravagant new retrospective of the avant-garde French-Cuban artist highlights often troubling yet always distinctive work
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She’s tipped for the Turner and has just won the first Hepworth sculpture prize. The 31-year-old talks about escaping an essay farm to create a parallel world out of matchsticks, pipes, spoons and threads
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From his paint-spattered bed to a stuffed goat, the American artist broke boundaries. On the eve of a major retrospective, his friends recall a generous spirit on his island hideaway
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The infrastructure’s basic, corruption endemic, but the most powerful man in the country still finds time to doodle in his ministerial diary – and has a show at one of the world’s leading galleries
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Saudi Arabian artist Ahmed Mater joins protesters at Standing Rock to celebrate their victory
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The street artist Stik set out to ask the denizens of Old Shoreditch how his new mural should reflect their gentrified neighbourhood
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Rembrandt’s perfect drawing, Caravaggio’s invention of Hollywood lighting, Monet capturing a moment in time. David Hockney and critic Martin Gayford discuss the craft behind the greatest art
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