Art and design, photography and architecture
Art & design
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Carabinieri allege dealers fraudulently exported €2m work by 17th-century baroque artist for auction in Vienna
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Joel Meyerowitz’s acclaimed photo series captures diving boards and motels in Florida and Cape Cod at that mysterious moment when the sun goes down
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The acclaimed pop artist, who has died at age 93, specialised in monumental sculptures where mundane objects suddenly became larger than life
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Graffiti crew spent five weeks taking turns to dangle down 82-metre tower to paint mural celebrating city
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The Swedish-born artist, who turned objects such as baseball bats, saws and clothespins into giant sculptures, died in Manhattan
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The 5 th Latin American Foto Festival features large-scale photographs displayed in the Melrose neighbourhood by emerging and established photographers, representing long-term projects on family, memory, culture, and other social issues
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Tamara Merino’s image of a priest from the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé religion in a community built by formerly enslaved people has a poignant sense of nostalgia and melancholy
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The Russian shelling of Chasiv Yar, forest fires in Europe, protests in Sri Lanka, the Tour de France and the San Fermin fiesta in Pamplona: the most striking global images this week
Warning: readers may find some of these images distressing
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Letters: Innovative ways are being found to cool cities, and justice demands that rich countries help those in the global south, say Dr David Dodman and Dr Aditya V Bahadur. Plus letters from Ann and Neil Holmes and Sarah Winne
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The proposal to divide Fed Square into colour-coded zones with ‘totems’ to help visitors find their way ignores the beauty of chaos
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The Houses of Parliament, a globally famous monument, will cost up to £13bn to restore. But this amount can be cut in a way that hardly anyone would notice
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Everyone was on the bandwagon, not all of them were gifted. By Chris Hall
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A Queen’s Gallery exhibition tells the story of centuries of artistic and cultural exchange between east and west
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Collectible and cartoonish, these digital multiples, traded in cryptocurrency, confer membership of an exclusive club – sometimes literally. But do they have any aesthetic value? A critic weighs in
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