Hollywood voyeurism at the Marilyn Monroe exhibition
A collection of the star’s possessions tries to make celebrity worship a feminist pursuit.
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Van Gogh in the yellow house
The artist moved to Arles in 1888 full of optimism. The National Gallery’s major new exhibition, “Poets and Lovers”, selects…
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The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition: decorous, polite, all too safe
The artists at this year’s inoffensive show have very little to say.
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Race across the landscape
In “Soulscapes”, contemporary artists of the African diaspora depict the lands that shaped them.
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Yoko Ono’s seriously playful art
Her Tate Modern retrospective delights me with its mixture of silliness and profundity.
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Frank Auerbach’s unsettling charcoal heads
These portraits have a haunted quality, the spectres of all the deleted images that went before.
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The art exhibitions to see in 2024
The most intriguing shows of the year, from the National Gallery at 200 to purple landscapes and charcoal heads.
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Philip Guston’s American monsters
His 1960s paintings of Ku Klux Klansmen confront the banality of evil – and retain their power to shock.
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Marina Abramović’s catalogue of self-harm
The stock-in-trade of the 76-year-old’s long career is endurance mixed with pain: something she demands of her audience, too.
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Frans Hals and the will to life
Where Rembrandt painted introspection, the Haarlem portraitist showed people as social creatures.
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Coco Chanel’s second coming
The V&A’s exhibition focuses on the designer’s clothes – with little attention given to her equally spectacular life.
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The lyrical pastorals of the British neo-romantics
A new exhibition at the Fry Gallery in Saffron Walden shows how the group painted the uncertainties of the mid-century…
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A piece of Freddie Mercury
The singer’s possessions – from draft lyrics to his Tiffany moustache comb – should sell for over £6m at auction.…
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In defence of “what if?”
Why counterfactual history is an essential tool for understanding the present.
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Band on the rise: Paul McCartney’s candid Sixties photographs
The National Portrait Gallery exhibition of “forgotten” pictures will be revelatory for Beatles obsessives.
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The inventions of Norman Foster
From museums and airports to bridges and a pissoir, for 60 years the architect has left his stamp on the…
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Visions of St Francis
For nearly eight centuries, artists have been among the saint’s most avid followers, as a major new exhibition at the…
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Sarah Lucas: “I didn’t want to spend my life angry”
The artist on feminism, the importance of humour, and being a Young British Artist at 60.
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A history of Spain in 150 objects
From El Greco to Goya and Mexican clay to Moorish gold, a new show at the Royal Academy reveals the…
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How the hieroglyphic code was cracked
A new exhibition at the British Museum tells the remarkable story of the deciphering of the Ancient Egyptian script.
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