art & design
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The director of Grease by his pool‘Randal Kleiser kept farm animals at his LA ranch house but treated them as pets’ -
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Richard Mosse: Incoming – shows the white-hot misery of the migrant crisisThe Irish artist follows migrants with a thermal military camera as they flee Syria, Iraq and elsewhere, turning them into a teeming mass of ghosts -
The hairdresser to the homelessFilipino-American barber Mark Bustos gives free haircuts to the homeless every Sunday – and all over the world
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Iran gets a blast of shocking colourHow will British ‘colour activist’ David Batchelor go down in a country where vibrant hues are all but banned? Will his lavatorial light land him in trouble?
in pictures
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Frank Brangwyn and Yoshijiro Urushibara's collaborationsFrank Brangwyn was an English former apprentice of William Morris, while Yoshijiro Urushibara was an expert Japanese woodblock artist. In the early part of the 20th century, they made prints together that blended their artistic styles and showed their shared adoration of nature
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talking points
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Why the sublime violence of volcanoes will never lie dormantA new exhibition shows how scientists have tried to understand the mayhem of volcanoes, and how artists have embraced their sheer terror
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America is a home for the world's most talented. A travel ban risks losing themBy opening its doors to disillusioned Iranians such as artist Shahrzad Changalvaee, the US has welcomed some of its greatest minds. But what now?
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reviews
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A rollercoaster ride around the worldTate Modern, London
Cities from the sky, cigarette still lifes and sunset drives … the German’s swirling show has got the lot – even a room to dance in
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Revolution: Russian Art 1917-1932 – when anything was possibleFrom singing peasants to Soviet mugshots, history shapes everything in this momentous show
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60 years of sex, sun and seismic shocksFrom his out-and-proud early work to the double portraits and California pools, this retrospective captures the cool sophistication of the rebel in owl glasses
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A boy with a gun at Michael X's HQ‘He was only 10 but I was scared. He handled the gun with a sense of purpose’
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Playtime in the world's most inhospitable placesHow do children play in refugee camps, aboriginal reserves and places ravaged by war? Photographer Mark Neville found out
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A balloon-seller in front of a filthy Indian power plant‘These places were initially located outside the city, to protect the air, but urban areas have expanded so fast they’re back inside’
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The female street photographers of InstagramThe art of street photography was long dominated by men and the ‘male gaze’, but new project Her Side of the Street celebrates women’s role in the practice
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Joel Sternfeld on his sly glimpses of wild AmericaThe 72-year-old photographer talks about his beguilingly sinister take on Americana
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A Gypsy family fleeing execution by the Russian army‘They had escaped, but lost their country. He played a Hungarian song on his violin’
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Save Dunelm House from the wrecking ballDurham’s student union building, once graced by Thelonious Monk, is a brutalist gem in need of renovation, not demolition
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Mies’s Mansion House Square: the best building London never had?Mies van der Rohe’s plans for an office tower in the City were scuppered by Prince Charles’ criticism and Margaret Thatcher’s fear of new public space – yet this tale has as much to do with shifts in public opinion against modernist architecture
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The man redesigning Greenwich peninsulaThe flamboyant Spanish architect whose Peninsula Place will be the centrepiece of a new £1bn development has a chequered history that includes swelling budgets, leaking roofs and falling tiles
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Christo on the Wrapped Reichstag‘It took 24 years and we had to negotiate with six different presidents. Then it only stayed up for two weeks’
the big picture
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The realist surrealistThis French photographer and filmmaker documented everyday scenes – but invested them with the visual daring of the surrealist movement
you may have missed
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Olafur Eliasson’s cultural highlightsThe artist on his admiration for documentary maker Adam Curtis, Ethiopian jazz poetry and the meditative power of archery
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The forgotten artist who captured Scotland's life and soulChildren from the slums, bleak seascapes, village fishermen at work … the vibrant visions of Joan Eardley are finding a new following
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A state visit to Britain for the first coupleThe US’s most famous, and most parodied painting is about to visit London for the first time. We examine the many interpretations of Grant Wood’s masterpiece
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The art of survival in post-revolutionary RussiaAhead of a major exhibition at the Royal Academy, Sarah Crompton visits Moscow and St Petersburg to explore a period of hard struggle and creativity
video
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Standing Rock protesters are warning us to save what we canSaudi Arabian artist Ahmed Mater joins protesters at Standing Rock to celebrate their victory
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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
Ivory tells the history of the world – it must never be banned