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Scents and Sensibility: Blind artists inspired by perfume

How do you make sense of a world you cannot see? A new exhibition at the Vaad Gallery tries to answer the question through art and sensory exploration.

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Portraits of South Africa

Monday, 11 April 2011

David Goldblatt is among the photographers whose work on South Africa goes on show at the V&A tomorrow

Africa united: Photographer Pieter Hugo casts a new light on tired stereotypes of his home continent

Sunday, 10 April 2011

Over the past decade, Pieter Hugo has challenged stereotypes of Africa with his controversial take on the continent's subcultures – from Nigeria's B-movie stars to Ghana's wild-honey collectors

Portfolio: A fresh focus on past masters

Sunday, 10 April 2011

As a crowd looks on, a woman opens up her shoulders, ready to strike a particularly doleful-looking lady. Who are they? And why is no one stopping the violence?

The changing face of the public statue

Saturday, 9 April 2011

Scarcely a week seems to pass without a controversial monument being unveiled. By Jerome Taylor.

Ai Weiwei: Seeds of an iconoclast

Saturday, 9 April 2011

He is as uncompromising in his politics as he is in his art, and now, it seems, he is paying the price. But how far will the Chinese regime go to silence a man feted as a hero by the rest of the world?

Bedlam bodies found beneath Crossrail

Friday, 8 April 2011

Opened in 1247, London’s St Bethlehem Hospital was the world’s first institution dedicated to mental illness. An abbreviation of its name produced the modern word "bedlam".

Malerie Marder: Carnal Knowledge

Friday, 8 April 2011

The American artist examines human intimacy by photographing friends and family undressed

Women at war: The female British artists who were written out of history

Friday, 8 April 2011

The job of portraying battle has, traditionally, been seen as a male preserve. But Arifa Akbar discovers that women war artists also played a crucial role

Anthony Vidler stages riveting James Stirling exhibition at the Tate Britain

Friday, 8 April 2011

For three decades, Sir James Stirling was the Mr Big of British architecture. Big ideas, big ego and, well, just plain big: his weight ballooned to nearly 20 stones in later life. But no other postwar British architect has been as provocatively interesting as the man known to his friends and enemies (there were more than a few of those) as Big Jim.

Museum of London displays Londoner's personal maps of the capital

Friday, 8 April 2011

If you were drawing a map of where you lived, what would you leave out and what would you include? Would you put in every street? Every house? Every tree? This question was posed last year by Londonist (www.londonist.com), a website that asked readers to send them their personal maps of London. The results – which included a map of central Hackney featuring every house – were so impressive that 11 of the maps collected are being displayed at the Museum of London later this month.

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