art & design
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Heavenly objects in a sterile limbo: the British Museum’s collection of faith-based artworks fails to convince – perhaps it works better on Radio 4
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Other lives: Teacher and artist who made a significant contribution to British sculpture
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Brothers Mike and JP Andrews bought a drone camera, flew to Australia, and embarked on Abstract Aerial Art, a 70,000-mile global photographic odyssey
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Built as a supply route for the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, the Dalton Highway is one of America’s northernmost roads, and only opened for public use in 1981
talking points
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A new way to crack Turing’s genius, a mighty pier in Hastings, and Scotland rewinds to 1540 – all in your weekly dispatch
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reviews
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This peculiar exhibition shirks black-and-white certainties in examining monochromatic art and painting, but why is there no room for Yves Klein, Robert Ryman or Chinese mastery?
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Kathy Burke, Philip Pullman and Natalie Dormer and a rat in the kitchen all feature in this month’s showcase of the best photography commissioned by the Observer in October 2017.
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Banksy in Bethlehem, the aftermath of the Catalan referendum, Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and the fight against Islamic State – the week’s biggest news stories captured by the world’s best photojournalists
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In the book The Secret Life of the Pencil, 70 artists, designers, musicians and architects talk about their relationship with their drawing implement
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Letters: Plans for a Holocaust memorial close to the Thames in central London are criticised by Patricia Hollis, Michael Daley and Quetta Kaye and Alice Roberts, while Michael Madden suggests a simpler form of memorial
the big picture
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For the past four years, Dutch photographer Joël van Houdt has been documenting the journeys of Afghan refugees around the world
you may have missed
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For six decades, the celebrated Guardian photojournalist has chronicled everyday British life. Here, he trains his lens on postwar austerity – and flying cats
video
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Contemporary visual artist Patricia Piccinini talks to Guardian Australia’s Van Badham ahead of the opening of the National Gallery of Australia’s latest exhibition, Hyper Real.
Sir John Soane's museum recreates architect's vision of pharaoh's tomb