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Damien Hirst: Wonka for our time

Love him or hate him (or evidently just hate him), the kitsch, controversial Hirst represents a break from the buttoned-up good taste that once prevailed in the UK

Simone Lueck's best shot

Simone Lueck: 'I placed an ad: "Seeking striking older woman to pose as glamorous movie star." I got around 150 responses'
The designer skin he lives in

Young Russians no longer pay homage to him, but Lenin 'lives on' in a choreographed show of solemnity inside a Moscow mausoleum. But for how long?
Swirl power

Aberdeen university's extraordinary new library has put the Silver City back on the architectural map. But will its students ever get any work done?
A tale of two New York Cities

A pair of mid-20th-century photography shows portray the extremes of life in the Big Apple
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London Olympic Village – in pictures (8 pictures)
Exhibitionist: The week's art shows in pictures (8 pictures)
Guardian Camera Club: Rachel Warnock on photographing your area (6 pictures)

Art

Picasso, Cocteau and Chagall paintings to be exhibited at Lightbox in Woking

10 Jan 2012: Lewis Elton's art collection, now donated to University of Surrey, will go on public display for the first time
Picasso and Mondrian works stolen from Athens art gallery

9 Jan 2012: Four works taken in pre-dawn heist at Greece's biggest public art museum but one was dropped as thieves fled
Turner Prize visitors to Gateshead's Baltic beat (almost) all hopes

9 Jan 2012:
Tyneside's upbeat hosting of the UK's most-noticed arts prize - only the second outside London in the Turner's 27 years - sees 149,770 visit the resurgent gallery
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Photography

The big picture: Bar Girl in a Brothel in the Red Light District, Havana, 1954

8 Jan 2012:
Eve Arnold's image of a young woman in a Cuban brothel captures a moment of stillness, sadness and great beauty, writes Sean O'Hagan
Family life

7 Jan 2012:
Readers' favourite photographs, songs and recipes
Artist of the week 171: Margarita Gluzberg

5 Jan 2012: Skye Sherwin: Moscow-born visual artist who uses hidden cameras and luxurious painting to chart the mysterious pull of materialism
Art and design for 2012: Bedwyr Williams, Chloe Dewe Mathews, Pernilla & Asif

1 Jan 2012:
Cage fighters, Olympic cushions and novel uses for crude oil distinguish our people to watch in the world of art and design
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Architecture

Olympic Village – review

8 Jan 2012:
London's Olympic Village will be home to 17,000 athletes this summer and a new community when the Games are over. They'll find a development of long-distance vision marred by short-sighted flaws, writes Rowan Moore
Summits at the summit: the Shard could host talks for world leaders

30 Dec 2011: Europe's tallest building could include exclusive space on 78th floor for top-level meetings, says building's developer
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Design

Top artists reveal how to find creative inspiration

2 Jan 2012:
Guy Garvey, Isaac Julien, Martha Wainwright and other artists give their top tips for unleashing your inner genius
Window dressers join the fight on all shop fronts

20 Dec 2011: Justin McGuirk: Mary Portas has told us what we already know – that high streets are in decline. But could designers help Willesden High Road's retailers by revamping their fading shop windows?
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Latest from Camera club
January assignment: Capturing achievement and inspiration on film

Film is not dead and this month we thought we'd explore its use. This assignment is organised in association with Lomography
- January assignment: Photographing achievement and inspiration on film – in pictures
- Top tips: Capturing achievement and inspiration on film