Art and design, photography and architecture
Art & design
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Images of one of 20th century’s great hoaxes are expected to fetch nearly £70,000
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Australian music photographer Wendy McDougall is showcasing more than 140 images in a retrospective exhibition of her work called ‘It’s only rock ‘n’ roll but I like it’ . McDougall has worked in the industry for more than 40 years and has shot countless musicians from Mick Jagger to Neil Finn. She talks about the circumstances of 10 of those images. The exhibition is being held at Sun Studios in Sydney and Melbourne.
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Photographer Stephan Zirwes celebrates German public swimming pools in a series shortlisted for the Sony world photography awards
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Hastings Pier, the Put it to the People march, rappers and poets – the best photography commissioned by the Observer in March 2019
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The aftermath of Cyclone Idai, the fall of Islamic State in Baghuz, the crisis in Venezuela and the Bombay Beach Biennale in California – the week captured by the world’s best photojournalists
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This week, in our series of classic Guardian photographs, you can buy your own archive print of Daffodils along the shore of Ullswater in the Lake District, photographed by Don McPhee
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The club’s long-awaited 62,000-seater home finally opened with a game between Spurs’s Under-18s and their Southampton counterparts
Visual arts
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More than 140 artists will take over the Truman Brewery in London’s East End for the 34th edition of the Other Art Fair this weekend
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The eminent British art historian died in his Manhattan home, with the fourth volume of his definitive Picasso biography as yet unpublished
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The 87-year-old, known for his visionary ideas including an inflatable concert hall, wins architecture’s Nobel prize equivalent
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The winner of Sony’s Outstanding Contribution to Photography award says: ‘My pictures seek to expose the shadow and vulnerability that exists in all of us – and it is this vulnerability that I find so beautiful’
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A damning new report details an attempted erasure by Azerbaijan of its Armenian cultural heritage, including the destruction of tens of thousands of Unesco-protected ancient stone carvings
Annie Leibovitz on the shots that made her