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From ancient fist-fighters to futurists on bikes, from starchy archers to a naked runner frozen in time … as the Games kick off in Paris, our critic ranks the finest depictions of sport in art

Promoting her album with the Pet Shop Boys, the actor and singer was in a liberated mood when she granted the Observer an audience in Athens

Muses to designers, faces of ad campaigns, starters of trends—they've done it all.

The BMW Art Car program is built on a minor contradiction. Since the program was launched in 1975 by French driver Hervé Poulain, the majority of the vehicles produced—each wearing one-of-one art from names like Andy Warhol, Jenny Holzer, Jeff Koons, and Cao Fei—have been race cars competing in high-stakes…

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PLP Architecture’s 60 Curzon in the heart of London is temporarily a gallery

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The former child star plays a tragedy stricken mother in Netflix’s ‘Eric’. Speaking to Annabel Nugent, she opens up about her extraordinary childhood, her severe aversion to violence on screen – and why ‘Transparent’ would not have been made today

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