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If you want to live dangerously, visit an art gallery
Jonathan JonesIt seems Damien Hirst’s leaking vitrines poisoned the air of Tate Modern – but who cares? We don’t expect common sense from artists – we want imagination -
After filling a London council flat with crystals, the Turner prize-nominee is realising his next grand plan for 2017 – and he’s even bought the aeroplane
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A brush with cancer inspired the artist’s latest show, in a career which has seen him work for ‘slave wages’ at Andy Warhol’s Factory and paint West’s album cover
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Maurizio Cattelan’s working gold loo at the New York museum is a pungent symbol of the extreme price of art objects, and our love of looking at them
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For this month’s readers’ art project New Zealand artist and photographer Greg Semu invites you to share your artwork on the theme of hegemony
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A new film about the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe is a shocking and brilliant reminder of the devastation HIV and Aids wreaked – and still does
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The NYC Downlow by creative duo Block9 is Glastonbury’s most decadent venue. Ahead of the festival, a competition was held to find fresh faces for the club’s door – with entrants told to dress as ‘much-loved gay butch cliches’
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Now establishment figures, the YBAs were enfants terribles when they first caused a sensation, so why was their work deemed so revolutionary?
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There’s a right way and a morally dubious way of buying art in Alice Springs. Here’s how to support artists and the art centres that are building communities
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Ancient Sicily may have been a land of tyrants, but this exhibition shows that from the time of its Norman invasion, its culture was remarkably open-minded -
This celebration of all things concrete will please both its aficionados and those who find it hard to love
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At its best, British conceptualism was a breath of fresh air. Suffocated in vitrine after vitrine, that spirit has been stultified in this nerdy, joyless survey
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In this exclusive essay, broadcaster and cultural critic Jonathan Meades ponders what if social media could inspire great art? And what if they’re the same thing?
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We have ten signed copies of Luke Harding’s book on the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and we’d like to see your best pictures of Russia
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The continuing refugee crisis in Europe, the Panama Papers, the Grand National at Aintree - the best photography in news, culture and sport from around the world this week
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Laura Moser’s daughter throws a tantrum at the White House
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Photography world pays tribute to the ‘Eye of Bamako’ and his dynamic black-and-white images of 1960s pop culture after Malian independence
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From Parisian ateliers to London lofts and Jeff Koons’ primary-coloured playground, see inside the workspaces of modern art’s most famous names
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The latest house in the philosopher’s Living Architecture project is a minimalist space in Wales that offers an expansive – if expensive – escape from everyday life
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Developers withhold from sale 150 flats designed by Frank Gehry and Norman Foster because of downturn at top end
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Official documents show London mayor was ‘keen’ for Heatherwick design to be chosen before supposedly open contest
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Privatisation is stripping cities in Russia and Eastern Europe of their public assets, leaving a chaotic mix of advertising, dilapidation and new development
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The Swiss artist recruited her brother for her photo series Tandem – and placed him into these bizarre tableaux full of cartoonish energy
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On the eve of a major Tate show, the Beirut-born installation artist talks about identity, homeland and being a London student in the cheerless 70s
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In her first interview since being appointed director of the world’s most popular contemporary art gallery, Frances Morris talks about its major new expansion, the morality of sponsorship, and her vision for the institution’s future
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We live in an age of undies innovation: from self-medicating bras to briefs that smell of breakfast or hide a weapon (and that’s not even a euphemism)
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From gender transition to asylum seeker applications, how you talk can mask or betray your true self. A new exhibition goes beyond class and geography to examine why the way we speak matters
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Destroyed by Isis in October 2015, a 2000-year-old arch from Palmyra, Syria, has been meticulously recreated through 3D printing for Trafalgar Square
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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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