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The birth of the People's Republic is seen as a time of drab buildings. But this dazzling show, featuring a factory in a cave and a denounced roof, tells a wildly different story ...

'I wanted to make a perfect square with my body. My back hurt for days afterwards. People often want to know if the kitten is real'

David Gentleman's brilliant career spans eight decades, from watercolour painting to tube station murals to drawing the Tottenham riots. Here his daughter, the Guardian journalist Amelia Gentleman, dispenses his invaluable advice ...

Moving from one avant garde movement to another during the 1920s, the American photographer's work helps tell the story of the birth of modernism ...

Peter Hujar captured a queer Manhattan demi-monde that is now lost to Aids. Whishaw reveals what he learned playing the photographer in a minimalist film being hailed by some as a masterpiece ...

Christine Hazell has progressive memory loss yet now has four shows in the works, thanks to these raw, untutored drawings of her children, grandchildren, great grandchildren - and Kizzy the dog ...

From tender coming of age stories to images that question the meaning of home, Ed Alcock's photography blurs the personal with the political ...

Stephen Moss writes that Parr's father 'inspired the 12-year-old me to explore birding hotspots'; Mike Pender recalls Martin's stunning 1983 photos of Yates's Wine Lodge ...

The French fashion designer's lavish Mediterranean villa was frequented by everyone from Dalí to Garbo to Stravinsky to Churchill. It has now been lovingly restored - with a thrillingly bolstered library ...

Yes, we love our roasties - but have we really explored the spud's potential as a gift, an aesthetic, a mood, asks Guardian columnist Emma Beddington ...