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Simone Leigh’s ‘monumental’ Royal Academy show set for 2027

Exhibition by African American artist to focus on architecture, art under fascism and her own links to the UK

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‘My paintings don’t fit the narrative’: Kerry James Marshall on why he’s depicting black enslavers

He is arguably America’s greatest living painter, elevating everyday black life to the level of epic, jaw-dropping masterpieces. Now, for his biggest European show, the artist talks us through his disturbing new works

The Guardian - UK

Kiefer/Van Gogh review – Anselm puts the nightmare into Vincent’s sunflower visions

The Dutch artist looks like a prophet of the Holocaust when viewed through the 80-year-old German painter’s dark lens in this startling show, which makes you see how Van Gogh might have painted modern horrors

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Summer arrives with monsters, minimalism and a memorial quilt – the week in art

Big names liven up the Royal Academy’s annual extravaganza, Durham digs into its past and Tate welcomes the Aids memorial quilt

The Guardian - UK

Jim Royle’s take on Tracey Emin ‘masterpiece’

The Guardian - UK

I have seen the light and it’s Tracey Emin’s Jesus – RA Summer Exhibition review

With an extraordinary painting by Emin, great works by Cindy Sherman, Cornelia Parker and Sean Scully, assisted by some perving from Allen Jones, this annual jamboree has returned to relevance

The Guardian - UK

Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo at the Royal Academy is dark and brilliant

The Royal Academy’s latest exhibition, Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo offers a rare glimpse into the dark and moody world of the renowned writer best known for his novels The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and Les Misérables.

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Why JMW Turner is still Britain’s best artist, 250 years on

The revered artist conjured groundbreaking scenes of gods, legends and lost civilisations, but, more than anything, his work came to represent the complex soul of Britain like that of no artist before or since

The Guardian - UK

Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo at the Royal Academy review : 'unnerving'

3/5 Victor Hugo was a prolific artist as well as a towering author and poet, but his strange work is more interesting and unnerving than truly great

Evening Standard

Sensual surrealism, Kiefer’s delights and Gehry’s Guggenheim: the best art and architecture shows to visit in 2025

Anselm Kiefer’s homage to Van Gogh, Ithell Colquhoun’s seaside of surrealism and Gilbert & George fill the galleries, while the V&A opens its archives at the illustrious new East Storehouse

The Guardian - UK

The Observer view: how Leonardo, Van Gogh and Monet help us to transcend the gloom

Four exhibitions in London this autumn remind us that creativity and imagination are the opposite of authoritarianism

The Guardian - UK

Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo: who is the greatest of the Renaissance masters?

Ahead of a new exhibition at London’s Royal Academy of Arts, writers make a case for each of Renaissance art’s big three, from the secretive genius of Leonardo to Raphael’s beguiling brilliance and the space-filling majesty of Michelangelo

The Guardian - UK

Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael at the Royal Academy review: a gem of a show and a testament to staggering genius

5/5 This exhibition is almost understated with its subdued décor and lighting yet mind blowing in suggestion and imagination

Evening Standard

‘I have taken risks, but Damien is a staggering risk-taker’: Michael Craig-Martin on style, the YBAs and being the great late bloomer of British art

Ahead of a major retrospective at the Royal Academy, the veteran artist and mentor to Hirst, Lucas et al talks about his nomadic early years, halcyon days at Goldsmiths – and the moment he stopped being ‘frightened’ of colour

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What is art for, if not for political discourse

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‘I took it personally’: Rejects, the show for artists rebuffed by the Royal Academy

The RA selected 1,700 works for its summer exhibition – but almost 10 times that number were rejected. Now some have a place to shine at last

The Guardian - UK

Love through the lens, a dynasty of Japanese printmaking and Leeds’s finest – the week in art

The Yoshida family’s remarkable legacy, Alison Wilding’s subtle and surprising sculptures and this year’s rather tired effort from the Royal Academy

Evening Standard

The best exhibitions in London this summer, from Barbie to Vincent van Gogh

From rare works from Renaissance masters, to photography series celebrating play, the city is packed with dazzling art shows

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Royal Academy Summer Exhibition review – a gasping death-rattle of conservative mediocrity

Pampered pets, polite portraits and enough wan landscapes to fill a field – this show mirrors the numbed, aimless condition of Britain after 14 years of Tory misrule

Evening Standard

Best places to buy birthday cards online to get your message delivered on time

Online card shopping is a piece of cake with these celebratory companies

The Guardian - UK

A colossal artistic joke – Flaming June at the Royal Academy review

A clever, titillating work offering easy visual thrills – Look at all that orange! Notice the nipple! – Frederic Leighton’s iconic painting is back in the UK while its Puerto Rico home undergoes repairs

The Guardian - UK

Entangled Pasts: Art, Colonialism and Change review – the most radical show in the RA’s history

The latest institution to confront its colonial past, the RA does so to enthralling effect, using the art and its subjects – spanning 250 years, from Turner to Lubaina Himid – rather than the wall texts to shock and enlighten

Evening Standard

The best exhibitions to see in London in 2024, from CUTE at Somerset House to Francis Bacon at the NPG

The capital's museums and galleries are a treasure trove of glorious art and ideas – here's our pick of the year's offerings

The Guardian - UK

The Last Supper recast: artist Tavares Strachan on reimagining Da Vinci’s dinner guests

He replaced Christ with Haile Selassie and took Judas’s place himself. The Bahamian’s epic artistic revisions, from space to the Arctic, hit Britain in 2024 – and the Royals are in his sights

Evening Standard

Marina Abramović at the Royal Academy review: nudity, danger and a whiff of woowoo

The later works in this survey get a bit crystals-and-trees, but the restaged historic performances have lost none of their power

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