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• Burning Man: debauchery, sandstorms and pyrotechnics – in pictures

  07-09-2015 21:03
  
  The week-long festival in the Nevada desert concluded on Sunday after a week long feast of dance music, debauchery, outlandish artworks and sandstorms. Here are some of the best images from the eventBurning Man: 24 things to do if you hate techno music
  Burning Man founder: ‘Black folks don’t like to camp as much as white folks’
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• Istanbul Biennial 2015: an overwhelming meditation on the tides of human misery

  07-09-2015 19:22
  
  A floating zoo, a sinkhole-inspired film, an underwater theatre for jellyfish and paintings by Aboriginal artists are the highlights of this year’s strange, ever-surprising biennial Just south of Istanbul, on the island of Büyükada in the Sea of Marmara, Leon Trotsky lived from 1929 to 1933, in exile and constant fear of assassination. Beyond the caved-in walls of his house is a path winding down to the sea. Suddenly, one clambers out on to the foreshore, to be faced with a pair
  
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• Penas Ciudad Barrios: A photographer went into an El Salvador prison so dangerous even the guards stay outside

  07-09-2015 15:01
  
  The Mara Salvatrucha gang are so feared in El Salvador, with a reputation for merciless revenge and cruel retribution, that they’ve been allowed to run their own prison.
  
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• A tattoo artist is inking over the scars of victims of domestic violence for free

  07-09-2015 13:32
  
  It might be difficult to completely get rid of the emotional scars left by domestic abuse, but one woman is helping blot out the physical ones.
  
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• The 'world's largest outdoor mural' goes on show for all to see - from the sky - in Norway

  07-09-2015 12:52
  
  A 21,000 square metre mural has been created in Norway - but you might need an aeroplane to see it.
  
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• Aussie rules and Aboriginal art: meet the Hermannsburg potters at work

  07-09-2015 09:48
  
  AFL is a big deal in remote Indigenous communities. In the wake of the Adam Goodes controversy, the Hermannsburg potters are painting its biggest starsIn central Australian desert country made famous by the painter Albert Namatjira, an art studio, adorned with a tiled mosaic and surrounded by red dirt and a pink fence, houses a group of internationally respected artists.It’s buzzing inside the studio when Guardian Australia visits. The Hermannsburg potters, a collective of female Western A
  
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• Meet the all-star Hermannsburg potters of the Northern Territory – video

  07-09-2015 09:45
  
  The artists of the remote Northern Territory community of Hermannsburg are busy creating a series of AFL-themed works for a forthcoming show in Melbourne. Our Land is Alive will feature 20 AFL-themed pots, celebrating Aboriginal players and historic moments in the game’s history. Hermannsburg, in West Arrernte country near Alice Springs, gained national prominence for its artwork through artist Albert NamatjiraContinue reading...
  
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• Hermannsburg potters of Northern Territory paint the stars of AFL – video

  07-09-2015 09:45
  
  The artists of the remote Northern Territory community of Hermannsburg are busy creating a series of AFL-themed works for a forthcoming show in Melbourne. Our Land is Alive will feature 20 AFL-themed pots, celebrating Aboriginal players and historic moments in the game’s history. Hermannsburg, in West Arrernte country near Alice Springs, gained national prominence for its artwork through artist Albert NamatjiraContinue reading...
  
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• The spirit of Africa’s people will transform the continent | Ben Okri

  07-09-2015 08:59
  
  Our nations were shaped by outside forces and faced instability from their creation. But from art to business I can see the resilience and creativity that will help us overcome the challengesFor most of the 20th century Africa made an epic journey: from its original way, through the trauma of colonialism and into the flawed daylight of independence. It made a journey in 50 years that it took other continents centuries – and, in some nations, thousands of years – to accomplish.We all
  
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• Anish Kapoor's 'queen's vagina' sculpture vandalised again – video

  07-09-2015 08:58
  
  Vandals have damaged British-Indian sculptor Anish Kapoor’s ‘queen’s vagina’ installation at the Palace of Versailles near Paris. The graffiti appeared on Sunday and is the second such attack on the sculpture in three months. A series of sentences, some of which were anti-Semitic, were painted on Kapoor’s 60-metre steel and rock abstract sculpture Continue reading...
  
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• Sydney art week 2015: our six top picks for art lovers

  07-09-2015 05:59
  
  Browse with the crowds at Sydney Contemporary, sip an Archibald-inspired cocktail or step back in time through Collette Dinnigan’s finest spills and frills More than 28,000 art lovers descended on Australia’s largest art fair, Sydney Contemporary, when it first took over the cavernous Carriageworks in 2013. Two years later, it’s back with almost 100 Australian and international galleries showing and – they hope – selling work to an art-hungry Sydney public.The fair
  
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• Anish Kapoor 'queen's vagina' sculpture at Versailles vandalised again

  07-09-2015 04:07
  
  Sculpture officially called ‘Dirty Corner’, in Palace of Versailles gardens, was attacked in June then cleaned but this time graffiti will stay ‘to bear witness’A controversial sculpture by artist Anish Kapoor, on display in the gardens of the Palace of Versailles – and informally dubbed the “queen’s vagina” – was vandalised again on Sunday, this time with antisemitic graffitti, officials said.
  The giant sculpture was attacked in June and the
  
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