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‘There’s otter poo, dragon poo …’ The woman who can make you smell everything, from hell to your grandparents | Art and design

Should you wish to know what the cesspit of a Norman fortress smelled like, Tasha Marks has ventured there. Go to Rochester Castle,...

Britain’s first gay anthem? Why the UK’s pioneering LGBTQ+ protest band reunited | Exhibitions

‘There is a little bit of gay in everyone today,” sing Michael Klein and Gillian Bartlam, the lead singers of Everyone Involved, a...

From gnarled hands to murder: the show exposing the world’s worst workplaces | Exhibitions

On my way to Hard Graft, a new exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London, I sat beside an employee with a lanyard...

‘I am inspired by very dull German documentary images’: Peter Bialobrzeski’s best photograph | Art and design

I clearly remember the day this picture was taken. It was 26 December 2004. I was driving to Bavaria to take photographs after...

‘The last wild places’: the Venice show about Earth’s spiralling salt marsh crisis | Installation

Eerie, desolate wastes in old novels, salt marshes are still seen as flat, grey and inhospitable landscapes today. Rainforests, meadows, oceans and even...

From Van Gogh to Le Va, Rego to the Renaissance: the best exhibitions for autumn 2024 | Culture

ArtVan Gogh: Poets and LoversTaking us from euphoria to despair, Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers promises to be spectacular. Including works rarely on...

‘Optimists have happier lives’: Laurie Anderson on Bowie, Lou Reed and ‘romantic, inspiring’ JFK | Laurie Anderson

Your debut album, Big Science (1982), opens with: “Good evening, this is your captain, we are about to attempt a crash landing”, while...

A baby checks her mail between the Toxteth riots: Mike Abrahams’ best photograph | Photography

I grew up near Penny Lane in Liverpool but I didn’t see many blue suburban skies. Just like any other northern industrial city,...

Splashing in the Seine, diving in the Danube: the drive to make cities swimmable | Architecture

On a summer morning in the Swiss city of Basel, groups of commuters bob merrily down the Rhine. They’re not on boats but...

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