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Edvard Munch’s weird and creepy portraits, Arpita Singh’s first major UK exhibition and a sea view from East Anglia

More than a century ago, Pablo Picasso smashed the Sacre-Coeur Basilica in Paris into a web of tangled lines on his canvas, deconstructing reality with the brushstrokes of a master cubist.

When the invitation for artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino to represent Australia at the 2026 Venice Biennale was rescinded, the statement from Creative Australia’s board said their selection now posed “an unacceptable risk” and “could undermine our goal of bringing Australians together”.

Somerset House’s upcoming Virtual Beauty exhibition will explore concepts of self-image in the post-internet world.

The Three Trees by Rembrandt is widely considered to be one of the artist’s greatest landscapes.

From a high chair to the ocean floor, Can the Seas Survive Us? in Norfolk’s Sainsbury Centre explores our watery world and the climate crisis

Plus: Why coastal comforts lured this artist to his California home.

A new exhibition celebrates the life and work of a painter who died at 37 of Aids as he tried to preserve a record of those around him

Hugo Morley-Fletcher died in 2022, aged 82. His personal collection raked in a sum of £249,201 under the hammer.

‘We walked three kilometres into this Australian lake, to where the water was still only a metre deep. Then we set up the gas pipe – and waited until the air was really still’

Ficre Ghebreyesus, who died in 2012, made vertiginous paintings celebrating family, the diaspora and his own turbulent story. His first British solo exhibition charts this remarkable journey