Art and design, photography and architecture
Art & design
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The world’s largest digital arts centre opened this week in a former submarine base, its cavernous chambers and dazzling visual effects providing exactly what visitors need after nearly three months in confinement
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The Guardian Print Shop is offering readers the chance to buy an exclusive print, created for the paper by Turner prize-winning artist Lubaina Himid as the cover of a special issue on racism in the UK, that ran in the G2 section. Proceeds will go to the ROOT-ed Zine, a quarterly magazine that aims to inspire, promote and support creatives of colour from, or based, in the north-west -
Jake Chapman wants Colston beheaded, Anish Kapoor wants a memorial to the millions killed by slavery, and Tracey Emin is thrilled the ‘stale old men’ are going. Artists and sculptors respond to statue outrage
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The University of Liverpool’s Victoria Gallery and Museum set today’s quiz, in our series exploring the art collections of British museums closed due to Covid-19 -
Russian-born photographer Maria Quigley grew up in Britain. For this project she returned to her grandmother’s small flat in St Petersburg to explore themes of memory, isolation and female identity across three generations of her family -
Hurling and Irish dancing are part of County Wexford’s cultural tradition. Photographer Luis Alberto Rodriguez got physical with the locals
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Michael Turek spent three years photographing Siberia’s most remote settlements. He was struck by the region’s musical heritage – and its plan to build a drive-in theatre for tanks and tractors -
Indigenous warriors, trafficked pangolins, Ebola doctors, fairytale railway sheds … this year’s prize-winners in the Sony world photography awards catch the turbulence of our times -
Brisbane underwater photographer Jasmine Carey has won the grand prize of $172,140 in the Hamdan International Photography award with her image of a humpback whale and its two-week old calf off the coast of Tonga
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Other lives: Talented architect and renowned landscape design expert -
Force of history demands re-evaluation of colonial statues and street names -
How the 1960s craze for oceanic exploration changed our relationship with the planet -
Two decades ago, the architect built a groundbreaking green space. How has ‘the straw bale house’ endured?
Visual arts
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If you have been using your extra time inside to create pieces of art, we would love to see them -
Wherever and however you are allowed to exercise, why not seek out public sculptures and monuments? Meanwhile, artists including Gilbert & George do their best to keep working – all in your weekly dispatch -
Patricia Highsmith’s manipulative murderer, Michel Houellebecq’s bitter irony and Orhan Pamuk’s mysterious miniaturists feature in our roundup of the best art novels
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Devastated by his time in Germany, which he regards as still Nazi, the artist has moved. As he unveils a powerful virtual reality artwork, he talks about needing a monster to fight – and why he’d like to be a barber
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