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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Michael craigmartin - The Untold Story

Want a free Frieze ticket? Michael Craig-Martin is giving them away to volunteers who help paint his mural

Tickets for Frieze London may be sold out, but there’s one way you can still grab them

Evening Standard

Damien Hirst at 60: a genius who never stops stretching our understanding of art and life – or a tired trickster ruined by his riches?

“I’m an artist, I have no idea about money.”

The Conversation

Frank Auerbach, leading figurative painter who fled Nazis, dies aged 93

Saved from the Holocaust by a sponsorship that took him from Berlin to London as a child, the artist later fell in with Soho’s artistic crowd including Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud

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Things to do in London this weekend, from Janet Jackson to the Devil Wears Prada

The very best of what to get up to, whether you’re headed out or staying in

Evening Standard

Michael Craig-Martin review – one style fits all

No everyday object is safe as the veteran artist and YBA mentor deploys his signature graphic technique over and over again in this 60-year-spanning retrospective

The Guardian - UK

Michael Craig-Martin review – sorry, but these lamps and filing cabinets just aren’t that interesting

His early conceptual work inspired the likes of Damien Hirst, but the RA has inexplicably focused on his cool and clinical representations of the ordinary stuff of modern life

The Guardian - UK

Michael Craig-Martin at the Royal Academy review: inescapably joyful

This career-spanning retrospective of the much-loved tutor to the YBAs combines playfulness with serious conceptual ideas

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‘I have taken risks, but Damien is a staggering risk-taker’: Michael Craig-Martin on style, the YBAs and being the great late bloomer of British art

Ahead of a major retrospective at the Royal Academy, the veteran artist and mentor to Hirst, Lucas et al talks about his nomadic early years, halcyon days at Goldsmiths – and the moment he stopped being ‘frightened’ of colour

The Guardian - UK

‘I love the dog, the sandals, everything!’: eight artists on their favourite paintings in the National Gallery

As the National Gallery in London turns 200, we ask celebrated artists to pick the artwork from the collection that means most to them

The Guardian - UK

‘Nobody has ever been astonished by an apple’ – sorry Cézanne, but still lifes are dull as hell

A vase with some pears? A jug with some bananas? Cutlery? Are you kidding? Painters of still lifes have a lot to answer for – and today’s new breed would be better off tackling air fryers or discarded Deliveroo packaging

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