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Yoko Ono’s bottoms, Frank Auerbach’s heads and visionary new landscapes – the week in art

The pop icon finally gets the retrospective she deserves while Tracey Emin and Judy Chicago unpick their textile pieces

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Frank Auerbach: The Charcoal Heads review: war-scarred faces on paper that has taken a pounding

These portraits from the dark postwar years have been so reworked that the paper is often gouged through. The results feel as war-damaged as his family – yet still thrillingly alive

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Frank Auerbach, The Charcoal Heads at the Courtauld Gallery review: at 92, he's still going strong

The iconic London artist’s work remains as arresting as ever

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From Migration to Curb Your Enthusiasm: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

The latest animation from the people who brought us Minions looks set to get kids all in a flap, and Larry David’s awks-tastic sitcom is back for a final season

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The best art and architecture shows to visit in 2024

Yoko Ono’s cheeky pieces, a gut punch from Goya and the National’s centenary celebrations will fill the UK’s galleries, while the Louvre’s architect takes his moment in the sun in this stupendous year

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Roman Abramovich amassed one of the world’s most impressive private stores of modern art

The Guardian’s art critic examines the collection amassed by the oligarch and his ex-wife Dasha Zhukova, which includes Freuds, Picassos and Russian modernism

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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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Auerbach, grand master of paint, as hot-wired as a live grenade at 92

A mesmerising show of late, great self-portraits proves why Frank Auerbach is one of Britain’s most celebrated painters, writes Geordie Greig

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‘I’m doing what may be my last paintings’: Frank Auerbach on his new self-portraits and turning 92

He has painted the same people over and over, sometimes for 40 years, dabbing, rubbing out, then starting again. Although the great artist now has to hold onto his easel to work, he still hopes to die with a brush in his hand

The Guardian - UK

Frank Auerbach: Twenty Self-Portraits review – savage, compassionate and pineapple-like

Now in his 90s, the great German-British painter is finally putting his own face up for scrutiny – with wondrously strange results

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From The Silent Twins to Sam Ryder: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Whether it’s a magnetic drama about elective-mute twins or the leonine Eurovision nearly man’s debut LP, our critics have you covered for the next seven days

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Frank Auerbach: how artist drew himself for Covid ‘plague years’ drawings

The renowned British artist found inspiration in his own features after the pandemic left him without sitters

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Frank Auerbach: Unseen review – art that restores a sense of what it is to be human

Holocaust orphan Auerbach’s stunning paintings – tangled masses with hints of horror – have been brought out of the Tate’s vaults to resonate poignantly in a time of war

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The power of Auerbach, the perils of Venice and seaside pleasures from Martin Parr – the week in art

Head to Petworth for Frank Auerbach, Greenwich for Canaletto and Bournemouth for the beach – all in your weekly dispatch

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Creation from destruction: why postwar British art has never been more relevant

Tumult, anxiety and an openness to reconstructing society loom large at a new show, featuring works by Frank Auerbach and Gillian Ayres

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