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Arundhati Roy and Sarah Perry longlisted for Women’s prize for nonfiction

Sixteen authors – including Lea Ypi, Lyse Doucet and Barbara Demick – are in contention for the £30,000 award, launched to address a historic gender imbalance in nonfiction prizes

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Artists, Siblings, Visionaries by Judith Mackrell review – the remarkable lives of Gwen and Augustus John

Gwen’s talent vastly outshone her brother’s – but both are treated with subtlety in this outstanding dual biography

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Fights, flings and fabulous paintings: how sibling rivals Augustus and Gwen John exasperated each other

He was a wild, glamorous painter, the toast of the early 20th century, whose life and career eclipsed his sister’s. But, after dying almost unknown, Gwen is now having the last laugh

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Welsh art already has a home – let’s develop that instead of building another

Letters: Rosslyn Morgan responds to a call for a new national gallery for Welsh art

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University College London staff voice concern over ‘dismantling’ of Art Museum

UCL’s Grade I-listed building being turned into a mixed-use space under redevelopment proposals

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‘Most paintings should have been burnt’: Augustus John’s granddaughter attacks artist’s later works

Celebrated painter ‘went down the drain from the 1930s’, claims Rebecca John in a new interview

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Six must-see summer exhibitions – reviewed by our experts

Looking for something to do this Summer? Our experts have gone to some of the best exhibitions around the UK and given us their take on it. From retrospectives of painter Peter Howson’s work in Edinburgh and filmmaker Brian Desmond Hurst’s work in Belfast to a groundbreaking photography exhibition in…

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Gwen John: often dismissed as a timid recluse, this unique and uncompromising artist painted relentlessly on her own terms

The quiet Welsh painter Gwen John was not like any other artist, male or female – she was genuinely unique. She was neither an heiress, like most unmarried modernist women, nor a conventional academic artist, like most women who had to make a living with their art.

The Conversation

Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris review

The Welsh-born painter Gwen John is generally remembered as a “fragile”, isolated figure, said Mark Hudson in The Independent. Neglected for some time after her death, John (1876-1939) was rediscovered in the 1980s, when she was reassessed as a reclusive talent overshadowed by two “bombastic male egos”: her brother, the…

The Week

Kaye Donachie: Song for the Last Act review – painted women who refuse to sit still and be pretty

Flawed, preoccupied and animated, Donachie’s vivid portraits intrigue and charm in a lively exhibition; Gwen John feels anaemic by comparison

The Guardian - UK

Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris review – sacrifices art to history

Tensile and hard-won, the artist’s singular work is occasionally lost in the scrum of a show keen to situate her in a social, sexual and painterly whirl

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The other royal collection: Windsors’ multimillion-pound private trove of art may include official gifts

Guardian identifies almost 400 artworks as being privately owned by family, including works by Dalí, Monet, Freud, Chagall and Lowry

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Clearer picture emerges of Thomas Skottowe's place in Hunter history

Thomas Skottowe's significant role in the Hunter's penal past is gaining some well-overdue attention.

Newcastle Herald

The talented women who had their eyes, if not their hands, on the prize

Valentine Prax’s fluid, vital paintings are an adjunct in a show of works by sculptor husband Ossip Zadkine. As in art, so in life

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