Photograph: PR

Mr T towel (there’s more where that came from…)

Photograph: happyplace.com

Ahead of the Guardian Weekend magazine gay issue, out 21 April, we pay tribute to the best gay rights protesting placards - you can see more on artanddesign.tumblr.com

Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images

A robot seated on a small vehicle and made by the School of Business and Engineering Vaud - just one of the new ideas on display at the International Exhibition of Invention in Geneva

Photograph: ChristChurch Cathedral

A cardboard cathedral is to be built in the centre of Christchurch, New Zealand, as a temporary replacement for the city’s landmark cathedral, which is being controversially demolished after sustaining damage in a series of earthquakes.

The “transitional church”, designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, will be located in Latimer Square, close to Cathedral Square. It will be built on the site of St John’s church, which was demolished after suffering severe damage in the largest of the earthquakes to hit the city in February last year.

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Share your art: readers’ spring pictures

Spring has arrived!

Each month we suggest a topic and invite readers to share their own creations on that subject. Here is a small selection of some of our favourite reader artworks inspired by spring. Have a flick through

So pretty! Love the butterfly one too…

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A handbag? Surely you’re joking, Mr Feldmann …

In a show opening in London, the contents of women’s handbags – crumpled receipts, the roll-up tobacco, shoes – are spilled out into glass cases. But isn’t it intrusive, displaying such personal items in a public art gallery for all the world to see? “Oh God, of course,” said gallery director Julia Peyton-Jones cheerfully. “But it’s fascinating isn’t it?”

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Farshid Moussavi: opening our eyes to new ways of city living

Always inventive, never predictable, this architect’s fascination lies in making pieces of city in a globalised world

• Farshid Moussavi will be in conversation with Rowan Moore at the Guardian’s Open Weekend. Find out more and book tickets

A great opportunity to meet Moussavi from our culture team.

Japan’s tattoo master: inside the studio of Horiyoshi III

As his artwork is exhibited for the first time in the UK at Somerset House in London, we take a rare glimpse into the Tokyo studio of this true craftsman

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Shakespeare on a Tube map - an oldie but a good one.

Madrid’s equivalent Oxford Street, the shopaholic Puerta del Sol stop, has been snapped up by Samsung in a month-long deal and renamed Sol Galaxy Note. What would you rename stations on the London Underground?

Liking newenergyspace’s suggestions:

Toshiba-kerstreet

Mars-enal

FujiCam-den Road

Sloans-for-you-Square

Premium Bond Street

Ladbroke’s Grove

Barclays-water

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