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Marina Abramović’s shocking Rhythm 0 performance shows why we still cannot trust people in power

In 1974, Marina Abramović dared an audience to use chains, lipstick and knives on her body – and their willingness to abuse her revealed frightening truths about misogyny

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Marina Abramović review – the artist is strangely absent

Knives, arrows, guns, nakedness… the performance art pioneer’s blockbuster 50-year retrospective underlines her bravery, yet sells it short with off-key re-enactments by stand-ins

The Guardian - UK

Marina Abramović has broken a 255-year-old glass ceiling. Why did it take so long?

The Serbian performance artist is the first woman to have a solo show in the Royal Academy’s main galleries – a telling indictment of the hurdles faced by female artists today

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Marina Abramović’s RA retrospective is terrifying and vital

Show documents vast legacy of brave artist who has turned her life into a relentless performance

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Julia Heseltine obituary

Other lives: Artist who produced portraits of famous people as well as more personal works, many of which reflected her life in Suffolk

The Guardian - UK

Spotlight on Reynolds review: a treasure trove of portraiture

Sir Joshua Reynolds “dominated the artistic life of England in his age”, said Melanie McDonagh in the Evening Standard. As the co-founder and first president of the Royal Academy, Reynolds (1723-1792) held immense power over the country’s art establishment, and was generally “revered” by his fellow painters. Constable, for one,…

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Herzog & de Meuron review – inscrutable show puts life before architecture

This fascinating if oblique showcase of the remarkable Swiss practice’s work explores the way buildings are made and inhabited, rather than the structures themselves

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Spotlight on Reynolds review – superficial portraits by a well-connected hack

One of his paintings recently sold for £50m – but William Blake was right when he said Reynolds ‘depressed art’, as this show demonstrates all too well

The Guardian - UK

Herzog & de Meuron review – architecture’s masters of reinvention reveal their box of tricks

This survey of the practice’s work, full of strange objects and AR tricks, seeks to challenge Herzog’s own view that ‘architecture exhibitions are so boring’ – but doesn’t always succeed

The Guardian - UK

Herzog & de Meuron at the Royal Academy review: starchitects show we can have better buildings... if we try

This is an unusual exhibition about the working method of the designers of Tate Modern and the Laban Centre

Evening Standard

Modest review – rollicking tale of star Victorian artist

Elizabeth Thompson takes on the whiskered lads of the Royal Academy in a show that bubbles over with charisma

The Guardian - UK

Royal Academy’s Herzog & de Meuron show in London spotlights architecture for care

The Royal Academy of Arts launches its Herzog & de Meuron exhibition in London; we speak to them about the show, their approach to healthcare architecture and caring, and their rich body of work

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RA Architecture Prize 2023 awarded to Shane de Blacam

The RA Architecture Prize 2023 has been announced, naming Dublin-based architect Shane de Blacam as its winner

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Visual artist Rana Begum talks public art and visits the Royal Academy - Art After Dark

In this episode of Art After Dark, Nancy Durrant is joined by visual artist and Royal Academician Rana Begum.

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Famous John Constable painting goes on display in Jarrow with free viewing until the end of the week

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

The Week

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2023 review

Every year since 1769, the Royal Academy has hosted a Summer Exhibition, a “cave-of-wonders-cum-candy-shop-cum-car-boot-sale of works by known academicians and keen members of the public”, said Laura Freeman in The Times. And, as the saying goes, “it is what it is”. This latest iteration, stewarded by watercolourist David Remfry, features…

Evening Standard

Why I live in Kensington: artist David Remfry on his London area — and why there’s more to it than museums

Artist David Remfry is co-ordinator of the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition this year. Here’s why he’s called Kensington home for 40 years and counting

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Rolf Harris obituary

Television entertainer whose long and versatile career was followed by imprisonment for indecent assault

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Visual artist Rana Begum talks public art and visits the Royal Academy I Art After Dark Ep 2

In this episode of Art After Dark, Nancy Durrant is joined by visual artist and Royal Academician Rana Begum. Together they admire the contemporary (and quirky) interiors at The Den in St Martin's Lane Hotel, try exquisitely crafted shoes at Manolo Blahniks, then head off to the Royal Academy where…

The Guardian - UK

Souls Grown Deep Like the Rivers: Black Artists from the American South review – hardwon labours of love

Conjured out of found objects, plant juice, even dirt, the work of 34 Black artists from the American south is jubilant, defiant, awkward, profound – and innately free

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Souls Grown Deep Like the Rivers review – art of poverty and resilience from the US south

This moving show considers the wealth of inventive and influential work by African American artists from communities that remained in southern states after the civil war

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