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Marilyn Monroe centenary exhibition to feature at National Portrait Gallery

Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait will open at the London gallery in summer next year.

Evening Standard

Portraits so powerful they override reality – Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting review

Saville’s colossal canvases are filled with bloodied mouths, epically thrusting nipples and meaty legs – and her tender Degas-like drawings are truly lovely

The Guardian - UK

Lovers, haters, rivals and chums – Seeing Each Other: Portraits of Artists review

What happens when artists paint artists? From Lucian Freud and Celia Paul to Lubaina Himid and Claudette Johnson, this cracking show provides absorbing insights

The Guardian - UK

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‘He said I sounded hysterical’: Celia Paul on lover Lucian Freud, his cold friends and the ‘devastating’ YBAs

In prose and in paint, the great artist Celia Paul is exorcising the ghosts of her past – from the cruelties of her lover Freud, to his offhand cohorts, and the YBA revolution that declared painting dead

The Guardian - UK

Leigh Bowery! review – a colossal display of shapeshifting outrageousness and originality

The late Australian performance artist’s huge retrospective is packed with outlandish costumes, stylish photographs, emotive writing and evocative video footage, but what is most striking is his singular artistic vision

The Guardian - UK

Leigh Bowery! at Tate Modern: Sprays inspiration over viewers like an enema

4/5 This well-earned retrospective relishes the fabulousness and revulsion of a nightlife icon

Evening Standard

Leigh Bowery! review – the sex, scandal and sprayed enemas of the ultimate exhibitionist

This exhaustive account of the iconic diva and dandy covers all the fashion, drugs, clubs and self-obsession of a life that was short, sleazy and sensational

The Guardian - UK

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‘Lucian Freud was thrilled when Leigh Bowery stripped naked’: how a wild club kid became the great painter’s muse

When outrageous clubbers Sue Tilley and Bowery posed for the eminent artist, some of the most spectacular portraits of the century were born. Tilley talks about sex, cash and Bowery’s untimely death

The Guardian - UK

‘A living, breathing work of art’: Leigh Bowery by those who knew him best

The performance artist shocked 1980s London with his surreal outfits, outlandish lifestyle and collaborations with Lucian Freud, dancer Michael Clark and others. As a major exhibition opens at Tate Modern, family and friends talk about Bowery’s larger-than-life legacy

The Guardian - UK

Things to do in London this weekend, from Billie Eilish to Bill Bailey

Mike Daw returns with his pick of the best things to see, do and hear this weekend

Evening Standard

National Gallery pulls all-nighter for Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers final weekend

Tickets for night-time slots on 17 January go on sale as gallery opens for 24 hours for second time in its history

The Guardian - UK

‘Puzzles give you order in a chaotic world’: meet the setters behind your favourite conundrums

From crosswords to quizzes, murder mysteries to number puzzles, brain-teasers are more popular than ever. But who are the fiendish minds behind them? The Guardian’s crossword editor introduces six top setters

The Guardian - UK

Frank Auerbach death: Famed painter who fled from Nazis dies aged 93

‘A true giant is gone, but his remarkable legacy will continue to inspire and endure’

The Independent UK

Frank Auerbach, leading figurative painter who fled Nazis, dies aged 93

Saved from the Holocaust by a sponsorship that took him from Berlin to London as a child, the artist later fell in with Soho’s artistic crowd including Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud

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Evening Standard

Bella Freud x M&S: the designer on her new collaboration and best pieces to shop now

Bella Freud tells Joe Bromley her M&S collab is anything but cosy

The Guardian - UK

Francis Bacon: Human Presence; Hyundai Commission: Mire Lee: Open Wound – review

Likeness is almost beside the point as Bacon’s wild originality transcends simple portraiture. At the Turbine Hall, Mire Lee’s floating ‘skins’ are a one-hit spectacle

International Business Times

Lucian Freud 'Masterpiece' Fetches GBP13.9 Million At London Sale

A nude by Lucian Freud that took 16 months to paint sold for GBP13.9 million ($18.2 million) at a London auction on Wednesday, the first time the work, hailed as a "masterpiece," has come to market.

The Independent UK

Francis Bacon – Human Presence review: the outrage king of British art at his terrifying best, and worst

Blockbuster show at the National Portrait Gallery overcomes Bacon’s late career lows to prove that his brutally frank portraiture can still take the breath away

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The Guardian - UK

Heath Ledger’s Joker was based on a Francis Bacon painting, says Christopher Nolan

Hollywood director is one of several leading creatives to speak of Bacon’s influence ahead of an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery

The Guardian - UK

Jeremy King: ‘The first time I was ever impressed by anyone was Meryl Streep’

The A-list’s favourite restaurateur on celebrity diners, what makes a good meal great – and why his solution to stress is transcendental meditation

The Guardian - UK

Nadia Sawalha: ‘I can be ball-breaking and soppy’

The TV presenter, 59, on compulsive eating, turning 60 and the secret of a good marriage

Wallpaper

’What is the life of a woman?’: Nadège Vanhée on a decade of womenswear at Hermès

For the past ten years, Nadège Vanhée, head of womenswear at Hermès, has steered the French maison on a quietly rebellious path, exploring notions of contemplation, liberation and sensuality. Speaking to fashion features editor Jack Moss, she unpacks her evolution

Wallpaper

Paul Smith opens up ‘Bar Paul’ for his return to Pitti Uomo after 31 years

Paul Smith’s S/S 2025 menswear collection, shown yesterday evening as part of Florence menswear fair Pitti Uomo, was inspired by the Italian coffee bars of London’s Soho and their artistic patrons

The Guardian - UK

How do I live my best life? I’ll consult a painting, thanks – not my smug ‘AI future self’

Really, what can these chatbots developed by researchers at MIT teach us that Tolstoy or Lucian Freud can’t? asks comedian and author Viv Groskop

The Guardian - UK

Naked Portrait by Rose Boyt review – under Lucian Freud’s gaze

The artist’s daughter tells the compelling story of sitting for him, but too often gets lost in the detail

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