Art and design, photography and architecture
Art & design
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Singers and impresarios have died, and with them has gone a cultural moment. How will the city respond when the pandemic has waned?
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Victoria Rose Richards’s embroidered landscapes are little bundles of colour and texture
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The artist on his favourite lockdown TV and the wonders of Indian miniature paintings
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Textile designer Bernat Klein found solace in High Sunderland, his minimal 1950s house in the Scottish Borders. In her memoir, his daughter recalls returning to her childhood home
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Michael Evans filled every available space with a treasure trove of British, French and Japanese works. Now they’re up for auction
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From Bauhaus to bohemian love … the intricate lives and art of interwar modernists are captured in this hugely enjoyable and well-plotted book
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Physical distancing, self-isolation and lockdown – the most striking photographs on coronavirus from around the world
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What does the Guardian’s decorated Sports photographer do in lockdown? Tom Jenkins has been taking an enforced break from action photography and pursuing a different kind of vision in his garden
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Tests your arts knowledge with these questions from the Observer’s critics
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Doomsday luxury accommodation is a booming business, offering customers a chance to sit out global pandemics and nuclear wars in comfort – as long as they have the money to pay for it
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Cathedral can still be repaired by 2024, says general, but decisions must be made fast
Visual arts
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Patricia Highsmith’s manipulative murderer, Michel Houellebecq’s bitter irony and Orhan Pamuk’s mysterious miniaturists feature in our roundup of the best art novels
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Covid-19 is the subject of topical, colourful and attention-grabbing street art, whether it is for artistic, educational or political ends
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She pops up in galleries, denouncing prestigious works of art as ‘pre-Raphaelite wet T-shirt competitions’. Now ArtActivistBarbie is taking her feminist message to social media
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Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of a Lady has been found – in the same gallery it was taken from. At least it wasn’t cut up by a mafia boss or hauled aboard a pirate ship
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Devastated by his time in Germany, which he regards as still Nazi, the artist has moved. As he unveils a powerful virtual reality artwork, he talks about needing a monster to fight – and why he’d like to be a barber
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