Art and design, photography and architecture
Art & design
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Menswear designer Kim Jones shines spotlight on Ghana in tie-up with painter Amoako Boafo -
Wolverhampton Art Gallery hosts today’s quiz, setting questions that explore art collections of museums closed due to coronavirus
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The Helsinki Photo Festival, open until 30 September, will attract visitors to exhibitions of 58 international and Nordic photographers -
In the 1990s, a troupe of hippies spent two years sealed inside a dome called Biosphere 2. They ended up starving and gasping for breath. As a new documentary Spaceship Earth tells their story, we meet the ‘biospherians’ -
The artists stood down as academicians after the gallery said it would not be hosting the show they had planned
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4 out of 5 stars.
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Max Miechowski’s shot of a closed-up ice‑cream parlour alludes to the precarity of seaside towns
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Restrictions relaxing and strengthening – the most striking photographs from around the world this week -
The Photographers Gallery reopens post-lockdown with portraits of humour and humanity, masculinity is on show at the Barbican, and Grayson Perry’s pots are back in Bath
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Building control officers insisted on fire barriers in the wall structure, inquiry hears -
Test your arts knowledge with these questions from the Observer’s critics -
The president’s decision to turn Istanbul’s Byzantine cathedral back into a mosque seeks to erase the past
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Architect is ignoring his own environment pledge, say critics
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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5 out of 5 stars.
Picasso and Paper The doodling genius who loved a scrap – review
5 out of 5 stars.From a cut-out dove Picasso made aged eight to the sketches that led to Guernica, this spectacular show displays a relentless creativity on any paper that came to hand -
Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of a Lady has been found – in the same gallery it was taken from. At least it wasn’t cut up by a mafia boss or hauled aboard a pirate ship -
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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‘The chapel was built by enslaved people in 1896. The area had been a hotbed for fishing but the rivers are empty now and money is moving to the city’
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