The first time I saw this emperor penguin was inside our hut on Ross Island in the Antarctic. He was a full metre tall and just stood around looking at us all, being very friendly. The year was 1959 and I had travelled to Antarctica with the navy at the end of October, when summer was just beginning. We took lots of shots, making the most of the penguin's friendliness. I've even got one of him standing at the bar with all the navy people drinking to his health. He was very co-operative, if slightly bewildered. He just kept acting like he wanted more photos taken.
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When it's a researcher wearing a panda costume to ensure that the cub's environment is devoid of human influence.
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Take a look at the weird and wonderful ways in which the 26 letters of the alphabet can be rendered with these examples from David Sacks' new book, Alphabets, A Miscellany of Letters.
Photo: P, wearable lettering. A green sleeve that, when worn in different ways, allows the wearer to personify every letter of the alphabet
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Johnny Selman is a San Francisco-based graphic designer who is using the BBC news website to design a poster every day "to promote the awareness of global current events with the American public". He began the project on 8 September 2010, his 30th birthday, and will create a poster a day for 365 days
Street artist scoops most entertaining documentary prize at Grierson Trust British Documentary Awards. Read all about it here.
You might remember we told you some time ago that Ai Wei Wei prepares a surprise for Tate Modern this autumn. The surprise is here.
Adrian Searle reports for The Guardian:
At first sight Ai Weiwei's installation Sunflower Seeds presents us with an undifferentiated field of grey, filling the space between the bridge and the end wall of Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. It is almost disappointing. The late Felix Gonzalez-Torres's piles of cellophane-wrapped sweets, which he showed in the 1980s, were prettier, and you were free to eat them (the American artist liked the idea that people could leave his shows with a nice taste lingering in their mouths). But the sweets were also metaphors for the Aids crisis, and much besides. Nothing in art is what it seems. And you can't eat a single one of Ai Weiwei's sunflower seeds, any more than you could Marcel Duchamp's marble sugar cubes. They'd break your teeth. Read more in The Guardian.
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It's not quite artistic, but the photos look amazing to me.
Photographers Jean-Louis Klein and Marie-Luce Hubert from Alsace, France, spent one year photographing harvest mice that were released from captivity into the wild.
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Everyone agrees it is a masterpiece. But who painted The Virgin of the Rocks – Leonardo or his students? Jonathan Jones joins the National Gallery on an epic quest to find out.
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The French architect Jean Nouvel's Serpentine gallery pavilion was unveiled this morning (nn - 6 July 2010). Here's a first look around the temporary structure.
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Nic Fiddian-Green's latest creation, Greekhead-Artemis, is a 30ft bronze sculpture of a horse's head, which is destined to be the star attraction at next month's Glorious Goodwood horse-racing festival in Chichester. We go behind the scenes at the Liverpool foundry, where the sculptor is adding the finishing touches.
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The Powers of love: a selection of the 50 murals painted as part of Philadelphia's Love Letter project created by the artist Stephen Powers. The paintings are positioned on walls and rooftops so that two thirds of them can be viewed from the city's Market-Frankford elevated train line which is used by 160,000 commuters every day.
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Banksy may not have made it onto this year's Turner prize shortlist, but Susan Philipsz, Angela de la Cruz, Dexter Dalwood and the Otolith Group did. Click through to investigate their work, see what the Turner committee said about them – and read the verdict from Guardian critics. An exhibition of work by the shortlisted artists will open at Tate Britain on 5 October, and the winner will be announced on 6 December - writes The Guardian.
photo (Hendrix's Last Basement by Dexter Dalwood) © The Guardian
Writing for The Guardian, Jonathan Glancey describes some of the weird and wonderful work of architects around the world.
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From the hand and head of Michael Jackson to "the pregnant man": here are some of the sculptures that will appear in Quinn's forthcoming White Cube exhibition.
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With sculptures of the 'pregnant man', a woman with massive, surgically enhanced breasts, Michael Jackson and Pamela Anderson, what is Marc Quinn's latest exhibition all about?
Simon Hattenstone investigates for The Guardian
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