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2B or not 2B? Readers get graphic with graphite, in drawings that combine technical brilliance, humour and imagination …
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Former distillery to become city’s newest and largest gallery of contemporary art
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Yaowawit school in Thailand, a positive legacy that remains 10 years on from the devastating Boxing Day tsunami
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Former distillery to become city’s newest and largest gallery of contemporary art
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Yaowawit school in Thailand, a positive legacy that remains 10 years on from the devastating Boxing Day tsunami
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We asked you to share your photos of the iconic landscapes as part of GuardianWitness’ bi-weekly readers’ assignment. Here is a selection of our favouritesReaders’ assignment: public transport
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A headless statue from the Parthenon marbles, also known as the Elgin marbles, is being loaned by the British Museum to the Hermitage in St Petersburg
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2B or not 2B? Readers get graphic with graphite, in drawings that combine technical brilliance, humour and imagination …
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The Red Hot 100 exhibition challenges social stigma towards ‘gingers’ by celebrating the modern-day, red-haired male
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The cat is out of the bag: proverbs sound odd when they’re translated. Writer Matt Lindley and artist Marcus Oakley have turned them into illustrations, writes Kathryn Bromwich
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For this week’s photography assignment in the Observer New Review we asked you to share your photos on the theme of ‘bright’ via GuardianWitness. Here’s a selection of our favourites
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The reaction to the Michael Brown verdict, the death of Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes, the ongoing crisis on the Turkish-Syrian border - the best photography in news, culture and sport from around the world this week
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Why are children and deer trapped in the headlights? Why’s that car on fire? And why have forests started growing in bathrooms? Part-nightmare, part-reverie, Julien Magre’s peculiar pictures are full of mysteries to unravel
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Photographer Gabriele Croppi travels the world shooting the most iconic buildings. But his pictures also reveal way more startling things in the urban shadows: a man carrying a nude mannequin, and bands of meditating monks
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Photographer David Moore’s construction images join a long tradition of honouring urban engineering feats – and the workers who sweat to create them
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Documentary shows an artist who matters leave his pastoral period and begin to match himself against modern masters
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You’ve sent in some great assignment ideas for GuardianWitness so we’ve started a bi-weekly series based on your best suggestions
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The Red Hot 100 exhibition challenges social stigma towards ‘gingers’ by celebrating the modern-day, red-haired male
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Wherever you are in the world, we’d like to see your pictures of ‘decoration.’ Share your best photos via GuardianWitnessReaders’ pictures on the theme of ‘bright’
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For this week’s photography assignment in the Observer New Review we asked you to share your photos on the theme of ‘bright’ via GuardianWitness. Here’s a selection of our favourites
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The reaction to the Michael Brown verdict, the death of Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes, the ongoing crisis on the Turkish-Syrian border - the best photography in news, culture and sport from around the world this week
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Andrew Dempsey writes: I first met David Mackay at the time that he and his firm MBM designed the Homage to Barcelona exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London, in 1985
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Photographer Gabriele Croppi travels the world shooting the most iconic buildings. But his pictures also reveal way more startling things in the urban shadows: a man carrying a nude mannequin, and bands of meditating monks
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Photographer David Moore’s construction images join a long tradition of honouring urban engineering feats – and the workers who sweat to create them
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Fashion forward Edward Steichen's trailblazing Vogue photographs
Shooting for Vogue and Vanity Fair in the 20s and 30s, father of fashion photography Edward Steichen devised a mode of portraiture that still sets the template for style magazines today
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In pictures The beauty of a red-headed man
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Lost highway Creepy Lynchian dreamscapes
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Love unlimited Studio 54 at the height of its fame
Photographer Tod Papageorge documented the beautiful people he found inside glittering New York disco club Studio 54 – in all their debauchery, glamour and cool -
Disco kitsch Are these the world's most ridiculous record covers?
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The Hungarian artist who pioneered photojournalism, influencing Cartier-Bresson and Brassaï, is back in the spotlight with an auction of his most moving images
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The Strip-Steppers Backstage with burlesque dancers in the 1930s
In 1936, Margaret Bourke-White went behind the scenes with top burlesque acts to show them setting their hair and tweaking their nipples before they hit the stage. Here are her most candid shots
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Shotguns and sundaes Gordon Parks's rare photographs of life in the segregated South
Lost for more than 50 years, Gordon Parks’s stunning images show daily life for one Alabama family in the shadow of race riots, bus boycotts and the fight for civil rights
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The real Mad Men Mac Conner's stunning New York illustrations
A new exhibition presents classic hand-painted illustrations from 1950s women’s magazines by one of the original Mad Men
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Graffiti artist Ben Eine reveals his surprise at being invited to Downing Street for tea and biscuits
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Ceramic artist Paul Cummins says he didn't realise how popular the idea would be after an estimated four million people visited his poppies installation at the Tower of London
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Fashion duo Anna Plunkett and Luke Sales – better known as Romance Was Born – discuss the NGV's new gallery show for kids
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Artist Jeff Makin climbs aboard as eight decorated art trams brighten up Melbourne's streets for the second year running
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Highlights from the 13th Alternative Miss World competition held at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre on London's South Bank
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A 60-ft tall green inflatable sculpture has caused a stir among Parisians for its resemblance to a sex toy
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Mega art fair Frieze London is about to swing its doors wide – but just how many kilos of coffee will the art world consume this week, and what's the biggest bargain ever bagged there? Our animation spills its secrets
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Duncan Campbell was nominated for a film, It For Others, which draws on a huge library of archive footage to look at a host of complex histories: the IRA, African art, and the language of advertising. He shows how his work came together
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Ciara Phillips set up a workshop and invited artists to come and collaborate – the result is a series of bright screenprints, but also a sense of shared inspiration. She explains how the project came together
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Using the precarious analogue technology of slide projectors, paired with his own recorded voice, Tris Vonna-Michell creates poignantly fractured travelogues that have won him a Turner prize nomination. Here he explains his work in more detail
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In the first of a series following 2014's Turner prize nominees at work in their studios, James Richards talks us through his 'abstract sculpture' which takes in film, sound and photography in a disquieting whole – from sources like submerged cameras and censored Japanese library books
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The Turner prize, launched 30 years ago, remains a focal point for British art and all its invention, vision and public outrage. Tate director Nicholas Serota and The Guardian's art critic Jonathan Jones consider its legacy, ahead of 2014's exhibition opening this week
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In this exclusive video for the Guardian, philosopher Alain de Botton gives his top five reasons why art is such a vital force for humanity. Are we wrong to like pretty pictures? Watch and find out
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A super-sized rubber duck arrives in the Californian harbour to take part in the Tall Ships Festival
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From Lloyds to Leadenhall: architect Graham Stirk gives a guided tour of the tallest office skyscraper in the UK
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It's not a hi-tech art heist, but a brand new way to explore art galleries by night. Design team The Workers have created four robots that will roam Tate Britain for five nights. Oliver Wainwright gets the first glimpse of the robots' eye view
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Mark Neville spent two months as a war artist with British troops in Afghanistan in 2011. In this silent, slow-motion film shot in Lashkar Gah from a Husky armoured vehicle, he records Afghans' reactions to the troops – some warm, some hostile
Duncan Campbell’s Turner prize winner is more like a lecture than artwork