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Nowruz festival marks 100 years of Afghan independence
Afghans have been taking part in Nowruz new year celebrations, which have coincided with the country’s centenary of independence. Stefanie Glinski visited the northern city of Mazar-e-sharif to photograph the festivities
Read more » | Desktop version »Van Gogh and Britain review – gaslit London inspired his starry night? Come off it!
There’s a good show trapped within this flabby blockbuster, which suggests Britain’s peasoupers and smoky tube stations inspired Van Gogh’s light-filled hymns to life
Read more » | Desktop version »Squalor, glamour, wealth and cruelty: the Britain Van Gogh saw and loved
He painted prisoners, devoured Dickens and worshipped the London News … ahead of a major show, our writer reveals how Britain changed Van Gogh – and how he transformed its art
Read more » | Desktop version »'This is blood money': Tate shuns Sacklers – and others urged to follow
Pressure builds on other institutions to disavow Sackler family over OxyContin, powerful painkiller linked to opioid deaths
Read more » | Desktop version »Mike Nelson: The Asset Strippers review – his all-time masterpiece
Found industrial relics create an epic landscape of a past rich with allusions
Read more » | Desktop version »Is it the end of the pier for Hastings?
How a victory for community goodwill, lottery money and visionary design ended in outrage
Read more » | Desktop version »Edvard Munch: Scandi novelists on the master of misery and menace
How is the great Norwegian artist seen back home? Karl Ove Knausgaard and other Scandinavian writers explain what Munch means to them
Read more » | Desktop version »The big picture: a civil-rights ‘stall-in’, Harlem, 1964
Steve Schapiro’s shot of a protest was taken on a cross-country trip with James Baldwin
Read more » | Desktop version »Tate art galleries will no longer accept donations from the Sackler family
The Sacklers own Purdue Pharma, the company behind OxyContin, which is under fire amid the opioid epidemic
Read more » | Desktop version »Row over use of unpaid interns by Serpentine pavilion architect
Junya Ishigami’s involvement in London gallery project attacked after email listing conditions for an intern is published
Read more » | Desktop version »Gladys Nilsson’s A Cold Mouth: a Boschian psychosexual comedy
The American painter, one of Chicago’s Hairy Who, creates satirical and captivating polymorphous figures
Read more » | Desktop version »Okwui Enwezor: the Nigerian who confronted the European art canon
The curator, who has died aged 55, was the only person to curate both the Venice Biennale and Documenta, helped redefine what African art could be and provided a platform for the likes of Steve McQueen
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