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Yayoi Kusama’s psychedelic art was at its best when taken in high doses

With dots that dizzied the viewer, the giddy sensory overload of seeing the grandest installations of her octopuses and giant pumpkins was hard to resist

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Scotland extend unbeaten men’s World Cup run to 27 years, 11 months and 19 days

In today’s Football Daily: The Tartan Army boogie, Bridget Riley and a 1938 coin toss

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Julio Le Parc review – as if Bridget Riley had opened a riotous funfair

The late artist found his calling in febrile 1960s Paris and this exhibition is imbued with an anarchist spirit – you can even spin the paintings!

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The best art and photography of 2025 – from eye-boggling Bridget Riley to the Face’s riotous fashion

Jenny Saville’s bruising paintings, Andy Goldsworthy’s immersive stones, Lee Miller’s surrealist shots and Diane Arbus’s unforgiving nudes – our critics highlight a spectacular year

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Cupid’s dazzling arrival, Bridget Riley’s rollercoaster and a duel of two masters – the week in art

Caravaggio’s masterpiece hits the UK, Margate goes dotty for Riley, and it’s paintbrushes at dawn for Turner and Constable

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Bridget Riley: Learning to See review – optical mastery leaves you gasping for air

The artist’s complete control of colour and space ensnares and mesmerises, leaving you lost in a reverie of wonder and surprise. You just can’t look away

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Turner seascapes and Damien Hirst sharks: Liverpool anniversary exhibition hopes to surprise

Walker Art Gallery highlights contemporary artists and ‘connections, histories and legacies’ to mark 250 years since Turner’s birth

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Peter Sedgley obituary

Op artist and friend of Bridget Riley with whom he founded Space artist studios in London

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‘It is everything art gets a bad name for and everything I love’: Damien Hirst and Cornelia Parker on choosing artworks for schools

Antony Gormley and Bridget Riley also pick works to be shown on high-res displays, thanks to a drive to put art at the core of the secondary school cultural syllabus

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Adam Sillito obituary

Visual neuroscientist who transformed the Institute of Ophthalmology in London into a world-class centre of excellence

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Beyond Form review: the dogged gunk rockers who besieged the art world – and the disco

From Bridget Riley’s grids to Louise Bourgeois’s phallic bulges, this show is a glorious celebration of female abstract artists whose often-denigrated work now feels unstoppable

The Guardian - UK

Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin among thousands of British artists used to train AI software, Midjourney

US lawyers approached about a class action against Midjourney and other AI firms accused of ‘copyright laundering’

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Tate Britain rehang review – this is now the museum where art goes to sleep

Tate Britain, LondonOnce the provocative home of artistic sensation, the gallery is now vacuous, worthy and fundamentally dull. It even seems to disapprove of the very British art it used to promote

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Bridget Riley unveils her first ceiling painting for the British School at Rome

Bridget Riley reveals her design for Edwin Lutyens’ ceiling at the British School at Rome

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The Guardian view on older artists: bridging history and personal life

Editorial: Their new works may be their last, but the contribution of these maestros are still making is invaluable to our world view

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First Tate Britain rehang in 10 years will put female artists at centre

Half the contemporary artists will be women, with works by Kudzanai-Violet Hwami, Bridget Riley and Tracey Emin

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Eamonn McCabe obituary

Award-winning photographer and picture editor with a unique way of seeing and framing the world

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The Mix: Cool things to do in Chicago Oct. 6-12

The Joffrey Ballet’s presents “Beyond Borders,” Lyric Opera’s Midwest premiere of the song cycle “The Brightness of Light,” and Brookfield Zoo’s “Boo! At the Zoo” are just some of the cool things to see and do in the week ahead.

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‘He captured the flux of sensation itself’: Bridget Riley, Luc Tuymans and other painters on Cézanne’s genius

As Tate Modern opens its first major Cézanne show in 25 years, artists discuss how he has influenced their own work

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Fall visual arts guide 2022: Art Institute showcasing the arts of Africa in major exhibit

With more than 250 sculptures from cultures across the continent, it is the largest show to date to explore the aesthetic appreciation of these objects through the eyes of their African makers and users and to make clear that their appearance is intimately tied to their function.

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The horrors of dissection, Freud’s secrets and Deller’s map of the self – the week in art

The dark art of anatomy, Freud family secrets, Bridget Riley’s brilliant watercolours and the atlas of our everyday lives

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Light: Works from the Tate's Collection honours the body and its sensations – this is art which is meant to be felt

Review: Light: Works from The Tate’s Collection, ACMI

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‘This was properly amazing work’: the artist’s life’s work found in a skip

George Westren’s op-art drawings went viral on social media after a neighbour saved them from the tip – now they might get an exhibition of their own

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