Shard leads Olympic Aquatics Centre in race for the Stirling prize

Other contenders for architecture award include Birmingham library, Everyman theatre in Liverpool and LSE student centre

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Oxford’s Ashmolean exhibition reveals real curse of Tutankhamun

‘Discovering Tutankhamun’ returns visitors to the Tut mania that followed 1923 excavation of the boy king’s tomb

Subversive design, radical Germans, and cultured holidays – the week in art

The V&A celebrates design as a form of protest, Isa Genzken brings her radical vision to Edinburgh, and we showcase the best exhibitions to catch on your summer travels – all in your weekly art newsletter

Halfway through 512 hours of Marina Abramović: no one to hear you scream

Our critic revisits Abramović’s residency at the Serpentine and finds its stifling silence and exam-style tasks evoke more production-line misery than mindfulness

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Secret oasis: the artist who’s hidden a swimming pool in the desert

Alfredo Barsuglia has put a swimming pool deep in the Mojave desert, which you need a treasure map to find. It’s a perfect parody of our world of instant gratification