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A new Norman Rosenthal-curated exhibition at the Ashmolean is a haunting collection of the artist’s work across a range of techniques and subjects
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Lambeth council wants to knock down the beautifully designed Central Hill estate
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The Zika virus in Latin America, refugees struggle in the Balkan winter, Donald Trump support – the best photography in news, culture and sport from around the world this week
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It wouldn’t be ‘Vogueland’ without Shrimpton and Moss, Bailey and Beaton, but this new exhibition of Vogue images at the National Portrait Gallery also offers a long record of British life, from Woolf to Winterson, Bowie to Beckham
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At 88, the film-maker, writer and occultist is still creating his dark magic, and this weekend is showcasing the works of two women artists he knew – one of whom, he says, was ‘a genuine witch’
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He sold a yacht at Frieze and consulted psychics for the Venice Biennale. Now Jankowski has made the German TV star curator of his latest show
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Madonna crashing out in a club, Kristin Scott Thomas ripping off her platinum wig and Monica Belluci’s big fat plate of spaghetti – fashion photography as you’ve never seen it by Bettina Rheims
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Phoney engagements, flying surrealists, faux Instagram celebrities, dubious family portraits … a short history of performance photography
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The pop master shows his sly side, Calder prizewinners display poise, and the great British photographer heads on holiday in your weekly art dispatch
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This uneven, fascinating and terrifying show presents a history of internet art in a series of snapshots – and a signpost that things have just begun
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Royal Academy, London
This exhibition of psychedelic modernist pastoral art is a ravishing joy and takes Monet out of the chocolate box, revealing one of art’s great humanists -
An ambitious snapshot of three centuries of floods, fires, earthquakes and tsunamis – and how architects have helped (or cashed in) after calamities
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I still feel angry. More than 40 protesters and 21 police officers were injured. If they had stuck to the plan, no one would have got hurt
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The Magnum photographer’s travelling exhibition, Life’s a Beach, showcases images shot at coastlines around the world. Here he talks about sausage sizzles and beach nudity with Guardian Australia’s picture editor, Jonny Weeks
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Renowned for her photographs of jazz and rock legends of the 1960s and 70s, Leni Sinclair has been announced as the Kresge Foundation’s Eminent Artist of 2016
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Brighton residents capture the monochrome charm of their town in this latest project from The Photocopy Club, a nationwide initiative to get prints into the hands of the public, using a cheap and democratic means of production
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‘I moved my family to the middle of nowhere. We spend our time writing dark plays and acting them out’
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On long childhood car journeys, Michael Snyder imagined himself hurdling passing buildings at high speed. As an adult, he recreated his fantasy, superimposing himself into urban landscapes around Washington DC
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Property developers are queuing up to pounce as Cuba opens its doors to the world. Proposals for Havana’s old harbour are described as ‘Las Vegas meets Miami in the Caribbean’. So can the city cope with the commercial storm ahead?
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Most Britons think government should help pay for upkeep of churches as part of UK history and heritage, survey finds
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Brutalist buildings are back in fashion, and local authorities are realising their potential
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Following shootings of young Vietnam war protesters in 1970, University of California students produced hundreds of anti-war artworks
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As his Museum of Innocence comes to Britain, the Nobel prizewinner takes author Elif Shafak on a tour of his cabinet of curiosities and discusses the collective amnesia of a country where writers can be jailed for a tweet
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From 18th-century caricature to today’s graphic novels, women have always been at the heart of comic art – as a new showcase of 100 artists illustrates
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Artists are a slippery sort, says the US sculptor, whose first British show features ‘diaper’ paper, heaps of condoms, and forbidding monoliths of foam
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The British Museum has long been a home for old master prints and drawings, and now contemporary artists from Riley to Baselitz are donating their work. So what’s in it for them?
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Internet artist Jeremy Bailey gives the Guardian an exclusive introduction to his work, which features in Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966) at the Whitechapel gallery
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From the surreal to the sublime via a photographic doormat, Guardian Australia’s picture editor, Jonny Weeks, talks to our photographer-at-large, Mike Bowers, about the 47 finalists in this year’s prize
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Sci-fi installation by former industrial wrecker and artist Tom Every, AKA Dr Evermor is on show at the Art Park in Wisconsin
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Ai Weiwei sets up studio on Greek island to highlight plight of refugees
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