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The culture cure: how art can be a powerful healing experience

Humans often find catharsis through creating art, while looking at paintings and sculptures can light up the pleasure centre in the brain and release dopamine

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Mob-Stolen 18th Century Opie Painting Returned to Original Family

An 18th century stolen British painting has been returned to its original family after more than 50 years. The artwork has a fascinating history involving ...

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Jesse Darling blaming Margaret Thatcher for arts cuts is as inaccurate as it’s outdated

Turner prize winner’s speech pointed finger at former prime minister, but there are culprits far more deserving of our ire

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Who is Jesse Darling, this year's Turner Prize winner?

Darling said that he plans to spend the £25,000 prize money on a new tooth, rent and buying friends a drink

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Jesse Darling, the first transgender artist to win the Turner Prize, waves Palestinian flag during speech

Darling, 41, pulled a small Palestinian flag out of his pocket after delivering his acceptance address

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Women in revolt achieved so much. Why are decades of progress now being reversed?

An exhibition of feminist activism charts the struggle towards equality, but hard-won rights are increasingly being taken away around the world

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Motherhood is exhausting - but this week I was reminded that we’ve come a long, long way

An exhibition on women’s activism drove home how much more involved dads are now, and that we have 1970s feminists to thank, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

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Feminist artist Cosey Fanni Tutti says Britney Spears was ‘manufactured and abused’

British musician sympathised with the US pop star following the release of her new best-selling memoir, ‘The Woman in Me’

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‘Women in Revolt!’ at Tate Britain is a deliciously angry tour de force of feminist art

‘Women in Revolt!’ puts feminist art from 1970 – 1990 under the spotlight at Tate Britain

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Exploring two decades of British feminist art: Women in Revolt! opens at Tate Britain

Exploring artistic responses to a changing era, the exhibition showcases the works of UK female artists between 1970 and 1990

The Independent UK

A radical piece of cake: feminist sculptural installation restaged at Tate Britain

Bobby Baker’s An Edible Family in a Mobile Home (1976) will be recreated – this time with a vegan option

The Guardian - UK

London’s new art power list

Meet the 31 movers, shakers and picture-makers reinvigorating the city’s art scene

Evening Standard

Sarah Lucas’s joyful bodies express freedom – and are a riposte to Sunak’s binary Britain

The power of the British artist’s bronze, concrete and stuffed nylon bodies is to show our diverse society in all its liberating glory

The Guardian - UK

Philip Guston; Sarah Lucas: Happy Gas review – tragi-comic cartoonery

The delayed Philip Guston retrospective opens at last – and it is mordant, magnificent, unmissable. Over at the other Tate, Sarah Lucas’s repertoire of rude Britannia one-liners wears a little thin

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Sarah Lucas: Happy Gas at Tate Britain review: this is an intoxicated – and intoxicating – show

This superb survey exhibition reveals an artist at the height of her powers

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Chris Ofili: Requiem review – Grenfell Tower as a burning cage in an ocean of despair

The artist’s dramatic site-specific work, partly a memorial to artist Khadija Saye, who died in the fire, is like a transition between life and death or grief and acceptance

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‘I want it to hit people in the gut’: Chris Ofili on his epic, three-wall Grenfell fresco

The artist has finally chosen to address the tragedy – with Requiem, a vast work depicting a flaming building, fleeing souls and an ocean of tears. He explains why he placed an artist who died at its centre

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OPINION - How is Marina Abramovic the first solo woman in the Royal Academy’s main space? I’ll tell you how

Don’t let the great London exhibitions this autumn fool you - things are still grim for women artists

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Book now: 20 must-see exhibitions in the UK

The largest exhibition of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s work in decades is on show at Tate Britain along with paintings by his wife, Elizabeth Siddal. Fans of pre-Raphaelite art will be thrilled with “The Rossettis”, which features splendid loans alongside much-loved paintings from our national collections. Until 24 September 2023, Tate…

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Sarah Lucas, Philip Guston and women revolt: the best art and architecture of autumn 2023

An American great for the age of Trump, a baroque master’s feminine side and 20 contentious years for women’s art are among the highlights ahead

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‘Dicing with death’: the lethal, terrifying art of Hamad Butt – and the evacuation it once caused

Blending science and the supernatural, high art and gothic horror, Hamad Butt made work that was literally dangerous, in one case sparking fears of a gas leak. He is one of the stars of Tate Britain’s rehang

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Tomás Saraceno: Web(s) of Life; Tate Britain rehang review – a five-star show that’s all generosity, and a reckoning with history

The Argentinian artist’s captivating work is at once an urgent call to action and irresistibly optimistic. At Tate Britain, a long-awaited rehang dazzles – and sometimes dismays

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Tate Britain rehang: a major reshuffle of its free displays

“For the first time in a decade”, Tate Britain has rehung its free displays, said Eloise Hendy in The Independent. The museum boasts “the most comprehensive collection of British art in the world”, making the task of rearranging and in some cases replacing the 800 works on display – spanning…

Evening Standard

OPINION - Admit it: you’re addicted to fast fashion — but it doesn’t have to be this way

The weather is finally warming up, and fashion retailers will be delighted — emboldened by the sunshine, we head to the shops, hankering for glossy, frothy or floral new outfits in our wardrobes to celebrate the arrival of summer. It induces a frenzy, as we indulge in as many dopamine…

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Scandalous ‘bonkbuster’ book by ex-Boris advisor causes a fuss in Westminster

And Theresa May is a fan

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