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‘Not for ogling’: forget Titian, Botticelli and the male fantasists – only women can paint great female nudes

From Yoko Ono to Frida Kahlo, from Louise Bourgeois to Artemisia Gentileschi, women have long been capturing the unvarnished truth about their own bodies – and that’s why my novel Female, Nude weaves them into the plot

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‘Lunch could last all day – and night’: inside Coco Chanel’s sun-kissed sanctum for art’s superstars

The French fashion designer’s lavish Mediterranean villa was frequented by everyone from Dalí to Garbo to Stravinsky to Churchill. It has now been lovingly restored – with a thrillingly bolstered library

The Guardian - UK

One vision, 4000 artists and a country transformed: why the next British PM must copy Roosevelt

Roosevelt’s New Deal gave artists like Alice Neel and Lee Krasner a lifeline during a time of crisis – and it changed the face of America. Whoever wins the UK election should take heed

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National Gallery should scrap 1900 cut-off date, says art expert

Julian Spalding says work by artists such as David Hockney could hang alongside old masters in bicentenary year

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Art: Laura Cumming’s 10 best shows of 2023

Our critic’s highlights included spotlit Vermeer, mouse-fur beauty spots, Donatello saints, Alice Neel’s New Yorkers and the reopening of an underloved institution

The Guardian - UK

The best art and architecture of 2023

Our critics’ high points include a ceramic wedding cake you can climb inside to Alice Neel’s fearless portraits, plus a new children’s V&A and a school with lumpy yellow walls

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Capturing the Moment review – not a serious exhibition

You can’t move for masterpieces – most of them owned by the Taiwanese collector Pierre Chen – but this supposed journey through painting and photography is rambling and at times comically simplistic

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Pelvic thrusts and paintings of breast pumps: the mothers making game-changing art

This year’s Mother art prize pays tribute to the joy, fury and hilarity of having kids – even the preview show was gatecrashed by toddlers

The Guardian - UK

The great Alice Neel: 'I wanted to paint as a woman, but not as the oppressive, power-mad world thought a woman should paint'

In 1971, the art critic Linda Nochlin transformed the art history debate by asking: “Why have there been no great women artists?”, a question with profound implications for rethinking the gendered operations of criticism, curation, history and the art market, which conspired to define “greatness”. The notion remains a problem.

The Conversation

High-rise heaven: the women who painted New York – by looking out of their windows

I have relocated to the Big Apple and am loving its epic skyline and endless bustle. No wonder Lois Dodd, Jane Freilicher and Alice Neel enjoyed painting the thrilling views from their apartments

The Guardian - UK

Asylum seekers in Britain are obliged to grit their teeth

Dental treatment is hard to get when you’re waiting for refugee status – but no worse than if you are a British resident

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Conflict, exhaustion, joy and pain: how Alice Neel shattered the taboos around motherhood

After centuries of exquisite Madonnas, the painter laid bare the complex truth about bearing and bringing up children – and inspired generations of successors

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Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle; Action, Gesture, Paint – review

The American artist puts her sitters at such ease that, one way or another, they reveal all in a superbly curated show of her life’s work

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‘Guess what, I’m alive!’: How New York artist Alice Neel seduced us with her fearless, fleshy portraits

The biggest exhibition of Alice Neel’s portraits in the UK to date opens this week at the Barbican. Eloise Hendy explores the life of an artist whose canvases captured everyone from Andy Warhol to the socially marginalised

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Alice Neel review – sexy, wonky portraits of radicals, poets, feminists and naked art critics

She immortalised New York’s bohemia and her own joys and struggles in paintings powerfully alert to body language and psychological vulnerabilities

Evening Standard

Things to do in London this weekend (February 17 — 19)

From the final tickets for a Filipino pop-up to a brand new Barbican exhibition, Mike Daw picks what to get up to in London this weekend

Evening Standard

Alice Neel: Hot off the Griddle at the Barbican review: this humane painter speaks so clearly to us still

Among the many arresting, unforgettable moments in this marvellous survey are two portraits of artists in states of undress. In one, the first painting we see, Alice Neel paints herself, aged 80, naked, sitting on a striped chair that we see time and again in her late period (she made…

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‘Guess what, I’m alive!’: How New York artist Alice Neel seduced us with her fearless, fleshy portraits

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Riotous women, stonking sculptures and Monet’s lost brother – the week in art

Sarah Lucas throws a party, Donatella shows his tender side, Alice Neel captures the real America, and Peter Doig brings romantic irony to the Courtauld

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The joy of clothes on canvas: how painters celebrate fashion – and inspire it

Art and fashion influencing each other is nothing new – but, more than ever, there seems to be a beautiful cross-pollination going on between painters and designers

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‘She created a space where people could reveal themselves’: the unique portraits of Alice Neel

A new exhibition celebrates a 20th-century painter acclaimed late in life for capturing the unvarnished essence of friends, neighbours – and even art critics

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The best art and design shows to visit in 2023

Queer Renaissance sculptor Donatello, Marina Abramović, David Hockney and a long-delayed mega-museum in Manchester – your art-design to-do list for the year ahead

The Conversation

'No woman could paint': The Story of Art Without Men corrects nearly 600 years of male-focused art criticism

Have you heard of Surrealist photographer Lee Miller? Or the highly political Dada photo-montagist Hannah Höch? 19th-century sculptor Edmonia Lewis achieved fame and recognition in her lifetime, as did 20th-century sculptor Barbara Hepworth, but none of these women artists have achieved “household name” status, akin to Dali or Duchamp or…

Evening Standard

Frieze for free? The best art fair exhibitions to see at London’s galleries

Cheat the system and enjoy some of the world’s great art, for nothing

Evening Standard

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

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