art & design
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Rockwell’s painting was positioned behind Donald Trump’s head as he met Obama in the White House. But this isn’t trolling – it’s a reminder to Trump that America is the land of the freeNorman Rockwell's Statue of Liberty can point Trump towards decency
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Masterpieces of surrealist photographySurrealism wasn’t just explored in paint – photographers successfully exploited or invented techniques to depict its dizzyingly heightened version of life
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Why her incendiary slavery art is as relevant as everThe artist’s bold new work, as seen in an exhibit at the Cleveland Museum of Art, has taken on a terrifying new prescience in the Trump era -
Be careful, Hockney – modern stained glass can shatter medieval beautyThe Church of England has asked Hockney to create windows for Westminster Abbey – but nothing can touch the power of medieval glass
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New sculpture is tribute to victims of Paris attacksBouquet of Tulips, currently being built, is to be installed on the plaza outside the Museum of Modern Art next year
in pictures
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Highlights from Portrait Salon 2016Rejected from the Taylor Wessing portrait prize, these excellent photographs get their chance to shine in the Portrait Salon exhibition
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talking points
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Was wild Mapplethorpe just another guy with a camera?Juergen Teller’s selection of Robert Mapplethorpe shots restores the shock. But some of these pairings are more Carry On than cool still life
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How we have always wanted to talk to the animalsFrom 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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reviews
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Monica Bonvicini – S&M gear has kinks ironed outBetween the power drills, leather tassels and saucy builders’ humour, Italian artist Monica Bonvicini lets S&M hang heavy in the air. But the audience frustratingly ends up neither master nor slave
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Tino Sehgal's mesmerising mind mazeAdrian 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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The Radical Eye – Elton John's ravishing photography collectionSwitch 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
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Patrick Harbron's intimate rock’n’roll photographyThe 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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Experiments in sound and visionThe 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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On the road with the Dale Farm familiesMary 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 imageHis image of a man blocking tanks in Tiananmen Square captivated the world. But the Magnum photographer now believes the ‘iconic’ image is dead
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The Nigerian festival challenging the world's Afro-pessimismEvent provides a platform for young photographers working to change the view of Africa as a continent of the desperate
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From 1940s Baghdad to 1980s NewcastleTo 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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Design Museum – temple to design gets the space it deserves at lastThe 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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Hamburg’s dazzling, costly castle in the airDelays, 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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Floating homes: a solution to flooding, crowded cities and unaffordable housingArchitects 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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Is Prince Charles's model village having the last laugh?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
the big picture
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Dina Goldstein's satirical pinupsIn her series Modern Girl, artist Dina Goldstein updates 1930s Chinese adverts to lampoon our quest for the perfect lifestyle
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He was just something to be aroundFrom 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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Albania's artist prime ministerThe 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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How design is electrifying DubaiThe splashy projects by Zaha and Foster are back in business – and in the new design microcity, the world’s greatest graduate show is showcasing inventions by the best brains from 30 different countries
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Heath Robinson: a museum fit for the cobbled-together contraption kingWiggling ducts, jumbles of planks, coils of cable … William Heath Robinson’s peculiar genius has been given the perfect home
video
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The artist’s hidden tribute to a sold-off LondonThe 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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On what turns a picture into a masterpieceRembrandt’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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Great Fire of London replica blazes on the banks of the ThamesA 120-meter long model of the 17th century London skyline burns to ashes to mark the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London
Helen Marten From a Macclesfield garage to artist of the year