Interviews

JW Anderson on the Star Wars effect on fashion

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London’s most avant-garde designer on which Star Wars characters are the best-dressed and why the films will be a perennial fashion reference

Meet the Turner prize shortlist, from the musician to the mind-reader

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Architecture, opera, fashion, parapsychology … this year’s contenders are taking contemporary art into exciting new territory. We sent our experts to meet the artists on the shortlist

Yoko Ono: ‘To be an artist you need courage’

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For more than 50 years Yoko Ono has been campaigning – for peace, for feminism, for gun control and, most recently, against fracking. This tireless activism, she says, is at the heart of her work as an artist. Alex Needham meets her at home in New York

Marina Abramović: ‘The planet is dying. We have to be warriors’

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In an exclusive interview in Tasmania, the performance artist explains why she stays out of the studio, resists nostalgia … and how she ate three raw onions

• Video: Have you got what it takes to follow the Abramovic method?
• Zoe Williams: How I became a convert to the cult of Marina Abramovic
• Marina Abramović’s weirdest moments in art – in pictures

Beach cafe, billionaire’s retreat, wedding marquee: second lives of the Serpentine pavilions

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Everyone from Ai Weiwei and Frank Gehry to Zaha Hadid has designed a folly for the Serpentine gallery, but what happens to these starchitect baubles after their summer in the sun?