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The US artist talks about recreating the floral arrangements that were centre stage during the signing of key political treaties
The German photographer is fascinated by what dwellings from earlier civilisations can tell us about the present and future
How would the Yorkshire city appear to an extraterrestrial? Forty years after he made these images, Mitchell’s work is receiving international acclaim
A 19th-century album of circus animal photographs evokes conflicting emotions
Rescue dogs, Tokyo parakeets and more: a selection of photographs that explore our relationship with animals
Following in the footsteps of Edward James Salisbury, the French photographer reveals the changes wrought by climate and man
The US artist was one of life’s great collaborators, working with music, choreography and every kind of media. Five artists share what he means to them
The show features many high-quality prints that the singer has acquired over the past 25 years
Difficult secrets are exposed in this biography but ultimately the great photographer remains just out of focus
A group of galleries at the London art fair is recreating seminal shows by artists who defined a new era of contemporary art
From an album of tattooed criminals to the burnt-out filing cabinets of Iraq, a new exhibition shows how images originally taken to provide visual proof have emerged as works of art
A new exhibition of the photographer’s early work provides clues to where she found her subject matter and how she honed her confrontational style
The Turner Prize-winning artist has launched his own anti-Brexit campaign. He talks to Liz Jobey about his new exhibition
In extracts from his new book, the art director reveals how mistakes can be turned into ideas, and failure into success
Newly arrived in China, the Polish photographer set up her camera on the street and captured colourful, rain-drenched life flashing by on the daily commute
The American collector amassed some 30,000 photographs, helping to establish the medium’s status in the art world
A series of new shows makes skilful juxtapositions between the work of experienced and emerging photographers
The American photographer devised his series of photographers’ trading cards in 1973 as a gentle dig at the art market. Now the cards are part of a new show at Tate Modern
The late New York photographer had fallen into obscurity when his pioneering images of street life were rediscovered. As a retrospective opens, Liz Jobey reports on his art and the man who spent a decade tracking him down
A German photographer’s investigation into meteorites and the stories that surround them
In the world of quantum physics, not all is as it seems. Investigating the Cern archive
At what point does life really stop?
The woman behind some of today’s best-loved literary fiction is determined to remain an enigma. The FT is granted a rare interview
The four-day fair was under way when Friday’s events took place
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