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Kiruna: the town being moved 3km east so it doesn't fall into a mine

Sweden's most northerly town is being relocated to avoid being swallowed up by the world's largest iron-ore mine

Paul Hill's best photograph: the day troops arrived in Belfast, 1969

'This man had gone to the pub for a drink. When he came out, there were troops and razorwire everywhere'
- Grayson Perry's latest tapestry celebrates mongrel Britain
Pink and blue planet: when colour obsessions go too far

Since 2005, JeongMee Yoon has photographed the world's least gender neutral kids to prove the pervasiveness of stereotypes
- The big break-out: when street art outgrows the street – in pictures
- Young wrestlers of Havana, Cuba
Banksy's 'Girl with the Pierced Eardrum' vandalised in Bristol

Black paint was splattered on the graffiti artist's latest piece 'The Girl with the Pierced Eardrum'
- From Byzantine bannings to the Jeff Koons attack: the lamest art vandalism ever
Egon Schiele review – a feminist artist ahead of his time

The Austrian artist's passion for women is illuminated in one of the most important – and sexy – shows of the year
- Sex and stockings: Egon Schiele's nudes – in pictures

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Rembrandt: The Late Works review – dark, impassioned, magnificently defiant

This astonishing show reveals Rembrandt at his most profoundly original and compassionate, writes Laura Cumming
Anarchy & Beauty: William Morris and His Legacy, 1860-1960 review – the virtues of simplicity

As an absorbing new show reveals, William Morris’s belief that everyone should make art had a huge impact on the 20th century, writes Rachel Cooke
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris review – everything and the bling from Frank Gehry

Frank Gehry’s new art museum for Louis Vuitton needed a smaller budget, writes Rowan Moore

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Grayson Perry vase with Chris Huhne motifs depicts ‘audacious default man’

Artist’s National Portrait Gallery show, tying in with C4 series, explores British identity, including that of jailed cabinet minister
Andrew Quilty tells the story behind his Nikon-Walkley photo of the year

Andrew Quilty tells the story behind his striking but heartbreaking image of a baby girl being treated in an Afghanistan hospital
Magnum photographer René Burri dies

Swiss photographer best known for iconic portraits of Che Guevara and Picasso dies aged 81 after a long illness

• René Burri – in pictures
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Victims of Syrian regime honoured at DC's Holocaust museum

A video installation of images smuggled out from Syria puts them in the context of the 20th century’s greatest atrocity, and the impact is profound, reports Raya Jalabi
How Grayson Perry has revolutionised art on television

Mark Lawson: The artist’s new series Who Are You? combines talkshow with art documentary, and even adds investigation to the mix. It’s a mould-breaking combination
William Morris letters show artist was a political firebrand until his death

Newly discovered correspondence to married woman reveals a man torn between push for equality and Victorian gender roles
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Giovanni Battista Moroni at the Royal Academy review – quietly magical and erotically charged

The little known 16th-century Italian painter loved to paint exquisite clothing and craftsmen, but it was lavish portraits of men that really inspired him
Nightmare at the Picasso Museum

The greatest museum of Picasso's works has been engulfed by scandal and crisis. Closed for the past five years, it is finally ready to reopen its doors to the public. But has the bitter struggle for Picasso's legacy been resolved?
Top of the shots: photographers' favourite photobooks

Which photobook would the world's best photographers grab in a fire? Nan Goldin, Martin Parr and more pick their all-time favourites. Interviews by Sean O'Hagan
- Garry Winogrand: the restless genius who gave street photography attitude

Art blog with Jonathan Jones

Shocked by Paul McCarthy's butt plug? You obviously haven't seen his phallic Pinocchio

McCarthy’s controversial sculpture, Tree, has been vandalised in Place Vendrome – and the artist assaulted. Why are Parisians being so prudish? This is nowhere near his scandalous best, writes Jonathan Jones
Why is political art such elitist twaddle?

Jonathan Jones: Radical artists are always keen to make a statement; just look at this year’s Turner prize crop. But their work needs to engage with humanity, otherwise it’s just elitist masturbation
José Damasceno: Plot review – surreal digging into hidden, disused spaces

The Brazilian artist has transfigured this quiet place of reading with an intervention of subtle imaginative power, writes Jonathan Jones

Architecture and design blog

Omniwheels and mountain trikes: five visionary new wheelchair designs

Oliver Wainwright: From the ‘omniwheels’ of the Whill to off-road caterpillar tracks, we look at the latest innovations in personal mobility vehicles
Strictly for the super-rich: the world’s most expensive penthouse

Oliver Wainwright: It’s got a cinema, a marble disco, an infinity pool with waterslide, a bedroom the size of two tennis courts – and tables upholstered in stingray skin. Got £260m? Then the penthouse in Monaco’s new Odeon Tower could be for you
Wayne Hemingway's 'pop-up' plan sounds the death knell for the legendary Balfron Tower

Opening for just two weeks, Wayne Hemingway has restored a flat in Ernö Goldfinger’s east London tower block, in the last hurrah before the social housing block is sold off
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Stereo pictures more than a Victorian relic

Letters: Such stereoscopic viewing is routinely used in scientific papers published in journals of structural molecular biology
René Burri obituary

Adventurous Magnum photographer known for portraits of Che and Picasso and insightful reportage from remote corners of the world
René Burri – in pictures

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Nightmare at the Picasso Museum

The greatest museum of Picasso's works has been engulfed by scandal and crisis. Closed for the past five years, it is finally ready to reopen its doors to the public. But has the bitter struggle for Picasso's legacy been resolved?

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Paw prints: share your artworks about animals

As the Wildlife Photography of the Year exhibition turns 50, let your imagination run wild, and share your art featuring or inspired by animals

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Ai Weiwei's new show at Alcatraz: Lego, mental health hospitals and Edward Snowden

Video (5min 21sec) Chinese artist Ai Weiwei talks about his newest exhibition at the Alcatraz prison. Take a tour of his large scale installations using Lego, traditional kites and porcelain flowers at the famous San Francisco penitentiary

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Artists’ mannequins exposed in full at Cambridge exhibition

Two ‘lay figures’ undergo MRI scans as part of show examining how the world of the artist’s mannequin was full of contradictions
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