Art & design
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Women's work around the world - in picturesAFP presents a series of photos depicting women performing roles or working in professions more traditionally held by men
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West of West: Santa Monica pier and 'the end of America' - a photo essayGuardian photographer Sarah Lee and writer Laura Barton ponder what the American West means in an age of political turbulence
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Mexico City's gay subway – in picturesDavid Graham had heard that gay men in Mexico City used the underground as a cruising labyrinth – and its ground zero was the legendary ‘last car’. Could it be true? -
Looted Ethiopian treasures in UK could be returned on loanVictoria and Albert Museum director says artefacts could be sent to Africa on long-term loan -
Museum of Banned Objects imagines a dystopian future without contraceptionA new exhibition in New York collaborated with Planned Parenthood to display contraceptives as artifacts, creating ‘a reality to avoid another possible reality’
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Dog fights and sex parties: the man who photographs Istanbul after darkÇağdaş Erdoğan captures the explosion of underground rebellion in parts of Istanbul. ‘People have been pushed into the night,’ says the photographer who is now facing jail -
Washington DC today, and after Martin Luther King's death – in picturesA look at the city landscape 50 years on from the violent riots that erupted in the US capital after Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated on 4 April 1968. Rioters smashed windows, looted and burned buildings for several days, and at least 10 people died
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Absurdist worlds in miniature – in picturesHotels on stilts, cribs on wheels and staircases through windows make up German photographer Frank Kunert’s playful microcosms
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Junya Ishigami: 'I want to make the sky'The Japanese architect designs buildings that float or are almost invisible – but now his fairytale visions are becoming a reality -
Port Talbot’s once-grand Plaza cinema due for major revampDerelict building where a young Richard Burton watched films may become community hub -
How to save our crumbling rural churchesLetters: Susanna Wade-Martins writes that government funding through Historic England must provide funds; while Rev Canon Rob Kelsey says England’s churches belong to the whole nation, not just those who worship. Plus Penelope Stanford shares her thoughts -
Country diary: a long-abandoned slate quarry's enduring monumentsCwmystradllyn, Gwynedd: By 1871 the village was deserted, its consumptive and dispirited inhabitants dispersed. But much architectural beauty remains
Visual arts
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Art loan schemes and the usual suspectsLetters: Leicestershire schools’ purchase of one of John Keane’s works enable him to buy a washing machine; Lionel Burman regrets the decline of art loan schemes; plus letters from Tim Russ and Harland Walshaw
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Barack and Michelle Obama's official portraits expand beyond usual formatThe pictures, painted by Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald, are vivid depictions by African American artists and will hang at the Smithsonian -
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