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Idealised, gilded or defaced, Queen Elizabeth's image dominated our age

From Beaton to Warhol, from the Sex Pistols to the coins in our pockets, the Queen’s face has been everywhere

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The best exhibitions to see in London in autumn 2022, from Lucian Freud to Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

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Evening Standard

Winslow Homer, Cézanne and Zaha Hadid: the best art and architecture of autumn 2022

The exhibition of the year is here, plus we have South Korean pop culture, a Sudanese women’s champion, decoded Egyptian hieroglyphs, Zaha Hadid’s ‘yonic stadium’ and a rare showing for the ‘American Turner’

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I can only stand in baffled awe as my husband’s novel is brought to life on film

Just as he couldn’t explain to me what inspired his characters, I can’t divine what he thinks of this adaptation

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Mexican icon Frida Kahlo to be subject of new stage musical

Painters have long been the subject of stage shows — think Mark Rothko, Seurat, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Lucian Freud

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Things to do in London this weekend (July 22-24)

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From The Good Boss to The Kid Laroi: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Whether you want a wry look at the workplace or some youthful, Bieber-assisted pop-rap, our critics have you covered for the next seven days

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Turner’s turn-ons and Freud’s family affair – the week in art

The great landscape artist’s lesser known erotic art goes on show in London while Lucian Freud is at Sigmund’s house and Jay Jopling’s White Cube crew are off to the countryside

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‘Sigmund would have loved this’ – Lucian Freud: The Painter and his Family review

The painter’s sex life drove his art. Does this show think that’s too vulgar to go into? The result is richly ironic: a case of repression in the building that houses Sigmund’s consulting couch

The Guardian - UK

Lucian Freud exhibition to feature family photos and childhood drawings

To honour what would have been the painter’s centenary year, the Freud Museum in London is staging an exhibition from July 6 until January 23.

The Independent UK

Francis Bacon portrait of Lucian Freud sells for £43 million

A Francis Bacon painting of Lucian Freud has sold for a record-breaking £43.4 million at auction.

Evening Standard

Francis Bacon portrait of Lucian Freud sets records in £43.4 million sale

The painting has become the most valuable work of art sold at auction in London this summer season so far, according to Sotheby’s.

The Independent UK

Francis Bacon portrait of Lucian Freud set to sell for millions at auction

A Francis Bacon portrait of fellow painter – and Soho drinking buddy – Lucian Freud that has not been seen for more than half-a-century is expected to sell for more than £35 million this month.

Evening Standard

Francis Bacon portrait of Lucian Freud expected to sell for over £35m at auction

Painting, based on black and white photograph, last exhibited in 1965 as part of a triptych

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Francis Bacon portrait unseen for 60 years to make auction debut

Study for Portrait of Lucian Freud was painted by British artist Bacon in 1964

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‘She is dancing among the greats’: the dangerously honest, richly ambiguous Paula Rego

Art’s great storyteller has died at the age of 87. Our critic celebrates a woman of courage and freakish imagination

Evening Standard

Kate Moss to produce biopic about her portrait sittings for Lucian Freud

The biopic will cover the period that Moss sat for iconic British painter Lucian Freud

The Guardian - UK

‘They are totally smashing it!’ Bernardine Evaristo on the artistic triumph of older Black women

Artists, novelists, actors, poets: from the Venice Biennale to Bridgerton, Black women in their 50s and 60s are finally getting the recognition they deserve, says the pioneering Booker winner

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Lucian Freud exhibition held at Freud Museum for the first time

Exhibition in Sigmund Freud’s family home in Hampstead marks Lucian’s 100th anniversary

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Previously unseen Lucian Freud etchings to be published for first time

Definitive study will include early versions of the revered 20th-century artist’s most famous creations

The Guardian - UK

Letters to Gwen John by Celia Paul review – a woman in her own image

The painter conveys her spiritual connection with a fellow obsessive and ascetic artist in this fascinating book of imagined correspondence that lays bare the creative process

The Guardian - UK

Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain 1945-65 review – a magnificent history lesson

Bomb sites, barbed wire, figures on the verge of collapse… this exceptional show of art made in the aftermath of war speaks directly to present horrors

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