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Watercolour slamdown, changing Chanel and Ofili’s Grenfell mural – the week in art

Turner and Bonington duke it out, a fashion icon gets a major show and Chris Ofili tackles the burning tower with swirling emotion

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Book now: 20 must-see exhibitions in the UK

The largest exhibition of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s work in decades is on show at Tate Britain along with paintings by his wife, Elizabeth Siddal. Fans of pre-Raphaelite art will be thrilled with “The Rossettis”, which features splendid loans alongside much-loved paintings from our national collections. Until 24 September 2023, Tate…

The Week

The best exhibitions this week in London, from Donna Huddleston to Simnikiwe Buhlungu (September 9 to 16)

We pick the best art shows to enjoy this week

Evening Standard

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National Gallery finally reopens nearly 24 hours after man scales building

A man was reported to be standing on the roof of the gallery in a distressed condition, police say

Evening Standard

Paula Rego: Crivelli’s Garden a ‘triumphant vision of female experience’

When Paula Rego was asked to paint a mural for the dining room of the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing in 1990, it “seemed a thoughtless insult”, said Laura Cumming in The Observer. The artist, who died last year aged 87, was renowned for focusing on the kinds of people normally…

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National Gallery in London extends pay what you wish scheme for major shows

Visitors can pay £1 for special exhibitions, including Frans Hals showcase next month, amid cost of living crisis

The Guardian - UK

Indigenous artists had 'creative control' over works, review finds

The 28 works had come under scrutiny over suggestions non-Aboriginal assistants helped paint them.

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Paula Rego: Crivelli’s Garden; Jean Cooke: Ungardening review – women at work

Designed to be seen across dining crowds at the National Gallery, Rego’s 90s mural, inspired by Crivelli’s 15th-century one, comes alive in the details. And Cooke’s candid self-portraits find respite in flowers

The Guardian - UK

Paula Rego: Crivelli’s Garden review – the scissors I get, but what’s with the frog?

Rego’s huge mural, painted 30 years ago for the Gallery’s restaurant, sits alongside the altarpiece that inspired it. Hers is less a feminist revolt than a celebration of perspective itself

The Guardian - UK

Paula Rego: Crivelli’s Garden at the National Gallery review: a superb, irreverent show

The artist creates a world rooted in the here and now but propels viewers into the realms of the imagination

Evening Standard

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One to The Bear: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Tom Cruise is back as Ethan Hunt, and the acclaimed US restaurant drama returns. Here are all the essential cultural happenings over the next seven days

The Guardian - UK

Sublime futurism, Renaissance inspiration and getting smashed – the week in art

Herzog & de Meuron build their dreams, Paula Rego cultivates Crivelli’s garden and Lindsey Mendick binge drinks – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

Damian Lewis: ‘I don’t know if I’m still a full-time actor’

He is ‘changing lanes’ to a career in music

Evening Standard

£10,000 kids parties at the National Gallery prompt calls for revolution

A guided tour of the gallery with dinner will set you back £75,000

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'Not quite human': How AI features in the latest National Gallery exhibition

An AI-created monologue discusses the 'absurd human urge' to name typhoons and cyclones.

Daily Mirror

400-year-old painting baffles viewers who say fashion item is proof of time travel

The fact that Nike was founded hundreds of years after the portrait was painted has led some to suggest that the artwork is proof that time travel exists

The Guardian - UK

A Marvel saint, spiky sculptures and banana drama – the week in art

Saint Francis and his 800-year-old robes come to the rescue, AI collides with craft and Japanese tradition meets pop art

The Guardian - UK

Saint Francis of Assisi review – did you know the bird-loving roamer was a Marvel superhero?

From Caravaggio’s most explicitly gay painting to the action-packed pages of a superhero comic, this exhibition of art inspired by the roving radical is enrapturing

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National Gallery of Australia to halt promotion of Aboriginal art exhibition over authenticity concerns

Review under way to determine if Indigenous artists ‘exercised effective creative control over the creation of the paintings’

Evening Standard

Saint Francis of Assisi: who was the man behind the National Gallery’s new blockbuster exhibition?

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After Impressionism review: ‘incontestable masterpieces’ at the National Gallery

The story of the great changes that occurred in painting in late 19th and early 20th century France is “probably the most frequently told” in all art history, said Mark Hudson in The Independent. The period produced “some of the most genuinely popular art ever created”, giving us Cézanne, van Gogh,…

Evening Standard

Culture in London to book for spring 2023: from Portraits of Dogs to Fast X and A Little Life

Spring has sprung and with it comes a new raft of fantastic culture in London. Here’s our essential guide of what to do and see this season

The Guardian - UK

Monet in Lego, modern art’s birth and Hockney’s bigger leash – the week in art

Ai Weiwei recreates a masterpiece in 650,000 pieces, Picasso and Matisse as arty midwives and dog portraits you won’t find in a charity shop – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

After Impressionism review – radical ideas and ecstatic sex from the edge of a new universe

Cézanne outshines Van Gogh, with Picasso his revolutionary pupil, in this absorbing hurtle toward modern art – smashing 500 years of tradition into cubist shards

The Guardian - UK

‘She is a he’: Was An Old Woman, the painting that inspired Alice’s Duchess, actually a man?

Curator of Renaissance art exhibition claims grotesque sitter for portrait didn’t have a disfiguring disease, as was previously thought

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