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How a National Gallery exhibition is giving us a new perspective on Lucian Freud

The largest exhibition of the artist’s work in a decade opens this week

Evening Standard

Pay what you can afford to see Lucian Freud’s controversial picture of the Queen

The first major exhibition of Lucian Freud’s work in 10 years will include that painting of Queen Elizabeth II

Evening Standard

National Gallery announces ‘pay what you wish’ scheme amid cost-of-living crisis

Visitors can pay as much or as little as they like with a £1 minimum fee for a new Lucian Freud exhibition.

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A wave of Korean art, the sound of Turner and Freud goes to the races – the week in art

The V&A’s new show is a dazzling historical remix, Tate Liverpool sets an English master to music, while Lucian Freud’s love for the turf is revealed – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

The Queen’s portraits - how countless artists have made an icon of a figurehead of state

Her face has imbued our cultural consciousness since she was a child

Evening Standard

From corgis to controversy, these are the most striking portraits of Queen Elizabeth II

The Queen sat for more than 200 official portraits during her reign and often let modern artists to do their own thing — which caused a fair share of controversy.

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Autumn culture guide 2022: From Lucian Freud to My Neighbour Totoro, Blonde to The Crown

We pick the new season’s highlights in our ultimate guide to what to book and binge-watch over the next few months

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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

The Guardian - UK

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

How to get your art fix in the capital

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’

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Independent UK

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

Allow us to sort out your weekend plans

Evening Standard

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

The Guardian - UK

‘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 Independent 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.

Evening Standard

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.

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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.

Evening Standard

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.

The Guardian - UK

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

The Independent UK

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

The Guardian - UK

‘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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