Art and design, photography and architecture
Art & design
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She wore soup-can bras, made an explicit film with Man Ray – and may have inspired Marcel Duchamp’s upturned urinal. We explore a thrilling show celebrating the pacy life of ‘The Baroness’
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Chauncey Hare’s Photographic Work is the first critical biography of the American photographer Chauncey Hare (1934–2019).
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Politicians talked the talk, fashion models walked the walk, and an on-field tackle heard around the world. Here are some of the best photos from the month of May
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3 out of 5 stars.Jenny Eclair is back with more amateur artists sketching nudes for a prize – and one finds it so awkward he can barely draw life model Roy’s body. What fun
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Between work as a petroleum engineer and a clinical psychologist, photographer Chauncey Hare documented suburban life in the US
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On World Water Day, Mina Guli started a challenge to run 200 marathons in a single year and draw attention to the global water crisis in the lead-up to the UN Water Conference
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From Dua Lipa at the O2 to a dispatch from Ukraine, the best original photographs from the Observer commissioned in May 2022
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The long read: For nearly 60 years, a former monk toiled almost single-handedly on an extraordinary building outside Madrid. Is it a folly or a masterpiece?
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Adele comes home, Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis goes for broke, the Edinburgh fringe fires on all cylinders, and HBO and Amazon prepare for a fantasy face-off
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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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