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Christie’s record-breaking collection set to sell for up to £126.7m

Monsoon: The Peter Simon Collection will be offered in three dedicated sales in October.

The Independent UK

Must-see London art exhibitions closing in August 2026

From David Hockney’s final Normandy frieze to Tracey Emin at Tate Modern, these blockbuster London art exhibitions are entering their final days. Here are the top summer shows to see before they close

Evening Standard

‘Women were currency’: How reparatory justice is spotlighting gender-based violence

In this month’s newsletter: placing Black women and girls at the forefront, celebrating the Manchester experience and preserving Gullah Geechee land

The Guardian - UK

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Hurvin Anderson at Tate Britain: The beautiful is political

4/5 A retrospective of the artist’s life’s work invites you to look below the surface

Evening Standard

Hurvin Anderson review – this haunted, hazy, beautiful show is like stumbling through someone’s memories

Anderson creates figurative paintings with a dreamlike intangibility, exploring his black British and Jamaican heritage with a startlingly fragile and unresolved intensity

The Guardian - UK

Postures: Jean Rhys in the Modern World review – sex, squalor and jungle sweat for an eternal outsider

Artists as varied as Sarah Lucas, Gwen John and Georg Baselitz are called upon by critic-curator Hilton Als to chime with the writer of Wide Sargasso Sea

The Guardian - UK

I have seen the light and it’s Tracey Emin’s Jesus – RA Summer Exhibition review

With an extraordinary painting by Emin, great works by Cindy Sherman, Cornelia Parker and Sean Scully, assisted by some perving from Allen Jones, this annual jamboree has returned to relevance

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The Time Is Always Now: Soulscapes review – the Black figure reframed to momentous effect

The presence, and absence, of Black figures in western art is turned on its head in an exhilarating showcase of 21st-century artists from the African diaspora. Elsewhere, some of the same artists reimagine landscape

The Guardian - UK

Soulscapes review – glimpses of greatness get lost in the lush, tropical overgrowth

This exhibition exploring race and landscape art has some fabulous moments but its desire to remain tasteful veers towards kitsch

The Guardian - UK

Hurvin Anderson: Salon Paintings review – bright, beautiful series brings barbershops to life

In living scenes, rich with dissonant colours and tactile textures, Anderson’s collage-like paintings explore Black British social spaces in the impressionist cafe tradition

The Guardian - UK

Artist Hurvin Anderson: ‘I’m always nervous about the word identity. I try not to use it’

Last week, the British painter became a Royal Academician. On the eve of a major solo show he talks about Black British art, the difficulties facing working-class artists today – and the appeal of the Caribbean barbershop

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