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The full glory of ancient Rome blazes once more in this grand, yet very human, exhibition of paintings on loan from the royal collection

When Paula Rego was asked to paint a mural for the dining room of the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing in 1990, it “seemed a thoughtless insult”, said Laura Cumming in The Observer. The artist, who died last year aged 87, was renowned for focusing on the kinds of people normally…

Rego’s huge mural, painted 30 years ago for the Gallery’s restaurant, sits alongside the altarpiece that inspired it. Hers is less a feminist revolt than a celebration of perspective itself

The artist creates a world rooted in the here and now but propels viewers into the realms of the imagination

In an extract from her new memoir, the Observer art critic tells the story of two paintings: one a source of comfort during a doomed affair, the other an unforgettable vision created by her father

South Tyneside residents are encouraged to make the most of a chance to see 1826 masterpiece The Cornfield

As a vast wedding cake sculpture is unveiled on the lawn at his stately home Waddesdon Manor, Lord Rothschild, scion of the banking dynasty, talks art, gangsters, champagne magnums and giant teapots with Geordie Greig

An AI-created monologue discusses the 'absurd human urge' to name typhoons and cyclones.

Although these portraits were something like dating profiles for aristocrats to woo across countries, staring back across the centuries they have an enigmatic privacy