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The painting that haunts me – seven experts share their favourite scary artwork

With Halloween approaching, we asked seven of our academic experts to tell us about the most unsettling artwork they’ve ever encountered. From gruesome portraits to creepy critters, these are the paintings that have stayed with them long after their first glimpse.

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Goya to Impressionism at the Courtauld Gallery review: fluid, charming, and entirely at home in London

5/5 This collection from Courtauld contemporary Oskar Reinhart complements the gallery perfectly

Evening Standard

Goya to Impressionism review – three salmon steaks blow the soppy jugs and flowers away

Is there an ulterior motive to this drearily grand exhibition of paintings borrowed from a Swiss collection? Could it be to show how vastly superior the Courtauld’s own works are?

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Guest editor St. Vincent and Alex Da Corte on making the dark and uncanny world of All Born Screaming

St. Vincent is a Wallpaper* guest editor for 2024. Here, the shape-shifting musician deliberates with her long-time collaborator, conceptual artist Alex Da Corte, about the human condition, finding inspiration in dark places, and the merry dance with chaos that is a creative's path

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The best art and architecture shows to visit in 2024

Yoko Ono’s cheeky pieces, a gut punch from Goya and the National’s centenary celebrations will fill the UK’s galleries, while the Louvre’s architect takes his moment in the sun in this stupendous year

The Guardian - UK

Why I'm glad the Corporate Memphis art style is dead

It represents everyone and speaks to no one.

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What did Monet, Goya and Matisse have in common? Their late work was among their best

"Last Light: How Six Great Artists Made Old Age a Time of Triumph" by Richard Lacayo; Simon & Schuster (384 pages, $35)

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Spain and the Hispanic World at the RA review: a stunning selection from 4,000 years of art

From Bell Beaker bowls dating to 2000 BC to Goya and Velazquez and more contemporary work, this exhibition conjures the soul of the Hispanic world

Evening Standard

Climate activists glue themselves to frames of two Goya paintings in Madrid

The two protesters did not damage the works but ‘caused their frames slight blemishes’ the Prado museum says

The Guardian - UK

Goya’s horrific Black Paintings are brought to life – La Quinta del Sordo review

Philippe Parreno’s filmic re-creation of Goya’s late murals, full of his bleakest visions, is like a time machine that lets us see this ghostly space through the artist’s eyes

The Guardian - UK

Masters Of War: Vienna Museum Exhibits Ukraine War Images Alongside Scenes Of Napoleonic Violence

These harrowing photographs documenting the destruction and sorrows caused by Russia’s war against Ukraine are on display at one of Austria’s most popular museums alongside Goya artworks documenting Napoleon’s war.

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Venice Biennale 2022: Marco Fusinato takes over Australia Pavilion with 200 days of guitar performance and spectacle

Marco Fusinato's installation DESASTRES at the Venice Biennale has been described as "powerful [and] hypnotic" and one of the best national pavilions at the prestigious contemporary art exhibition.

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True story of gallery raid behind comedy film The Duke - and how Mirror solved mystery

Kempton Bunton, a retired lorry driver, masterminded the theft of Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery as part of his crusade for free TV licences

Daily Mirror

Before and after: X-ray paintings by Picasso, Van Gogh to reveal their surprising stories

New technology for analysing old paintings has revealed some surprising stories behind works by Picasso, Van Gogh, and others. Use our X-ray tool to peer beneath these masterpieces and see what lies beneath.

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