Art & design
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The famed Chinese street photographer trains his lens on the bored and the dispossessed in his rambles through city streets challenged by the relentless march of progress -
This year’s international photography fair is a riot of phosphorescent vegetation, fashion masterworks and eye-catching portraiture
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4 out of 5 stars.
Killed Negatives review – uncovering the dark heart of the Depression
4 out of 5 stars.A small army of photojournalists were sent out to document America’s Great Depression. This exhibition reveals the pictures that were suppressed – with surreal and devastating results -
Sotheby’s billed the $157m nude as a proto-feminist portrait of a sexually confident modern woman. In fact, she’s little more than a soft-hued rehash of paintings by more daring innovators
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2 out of 5 stars.
Guildhall Art Gallery, London
The Victorian ceramicist wanted to create a utopian art of abstract symmetries. But his mirrored plates – full of mermaids, dragons and peacocks – are more home decor than high art
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4 out of 5 stars.
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Bear suits, bow ties and red lips bring this year’s best of – on display at PhotoLondon – to life -
Caught between east and west, the Iranian-born Sydney-based artist interrogates the different ways women can be invisible in plain sight
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On 16 May 1968, a gas explosion in the kitchen of an 18th floor flat resulted in the collapse of the entire south-east corner of Ronan Point, a 22-storey east London tower block, killing four people and injuring 17. The disaster led to a loss of public confidence in high-rise residential buildings and resulted in major changes in UK building regulations -
It was meant to spark a high-rise revolution. But it ended up as rubble. Is this salvaged chunk of Robin Hood Gardens, about to be unveiled in Venice, all that’s left of bold social housing in Britain? -
From industrial estates to housing estates, the listing of 17 PoMo buildings is an enlightened move. But what about brutalism, asks Catherine Croft, director of the Twentieth Century Society -
Maverick architect whose bold visions included Peckham Library, winner of the 2000 Stirling prize
Visual arts
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Pedigree chums... -
When you have to use your imagination… -
She shook up the church and the art world with her expressive, exuberant and boisterous work
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