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'Old-fashioned awesome' – readers pick their favourite art of the 21st century

After we published our chart of the best art since 2000, you sent in your thoughts and suggestions, from price-slash Banksys to Yayoi Kusama’s oblivion
Mist and vapour … The Weather Project by Olafur Eliasson in the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, 2003. Photograph: Dan Chung/The Guardian

Banksy: Better Out Than In (2013)

‘A very accessible broad look at how art affects us’: DietBoke

My favourite art project was the Banksy one-month “residency” in New York. I only saw this through Chris Moukarbel’s documentary and I didn’t think I would enjoy it as much as I did. It was so much about the way people reacted to the art that was so fascinating: the guys who disassembled the

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