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Cecily Brown: ‘I was too shy to talk to all these super cool kids like Sarah Lucas and Damien Hirst’

She left London because her paintings felt hopelessly unfashionable compared with the work of the YBAs. Now she’s back with a blockbuster show – and the world has come round to her point of view

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Seriously review – headstands, bananas and a dog watching porn reveal photography’s silly side

From a girl chewing gum to a dog watching porn, you can’t help but smile as artists including Cindy Sherman and Sarah Lucas make political points with bizarre humour

The Guardian - UK

Ooh La La - Maggi Hambling & Sarah Lucas: 'A crackling artistic communion'

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Maggi Hambling and Sarah Lucas: Ooo La La review – from the sublime to the ridiculous

The two artists, friends, are paired in this joint show that juxtaposes Lucas’s precise and witty sculptures with Hambling’s semi-abstract dollops

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Maggi meets Sarah, Anish Kapoor takes on Ice and Suffolk seduces Spencer – the week in art

Hambling and Lucas join forces, Roger Fry gets a rare show and an aerial daredevil captures stormy Scotland

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Head of Frieze art fair hopes for ‘Barbenheimer moment’ with Paris rival

Simon Fox plays down talk of competition with Art Basel Paris, insisting both cities can thrive despite market slump

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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

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From private to public: A rare look at Swiss billionaire Michael Ringier's massive art collection

Swiss media mogul Michael Ringier has spent more than 30 years building a world-class art collection. Now, 500 of his 5,000 works are on public display for the first time at the Langen Foundation.

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‘It went black’: Maggi Hambling describes life as artist after finger amputation

Hambling says she has been able to adapt to injury – and saw funny side when her plumber asked if her work was now half-price

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Frieze Art Fair marks the full arrival of Culture Season in London, when the city is buzzing with new openings and events. We’ve rounded up the ones to visit now and in the coming months

We've rounded up the events and exhibitions you need to visit

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The radical, ravishing rebirth of Tracey Emin: ‘I didn’t want to die as some mediocre YBA’

In the last four years, she has survived an aggressive cancer, opened her own art school – and produced stunning work. And she’s just getting started. She discusses sobriety, suffering and second chances

The Guardian - UK

Alaïa unites fashion and art in its redesigned London flagship

Conceived by creative director Pieter Mulier, Alaïa’s reopened New Bond Street flagship is an intimate space which doubles as an art gallery showcasing works from Sarah Lucas, Sterling Ruby, Marc Newson and more

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Bright and beautiful: lamps are the new living room status symbol

Stylish lighting has replaced plants and vases as the new interior must-have, be it colourful, cordless or even works of art

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At Sadie Coles HQ, artists bring a playful sensuality to lamps

Sadie Coles HQ’s ‘Shine On’ exhibition in London features sculptural lighting by Sarah Lucas, Urs Fischer, and more (until 27 April 2024)

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It’s alive! It’s alive! The giant scary sculptures made of bubbles, blobs and body parts

Our writer finds the funny side of sculpture at an unsettling new show called When Forms Come Alive – which features orbs, sacs, satellites, peduncles, piles of gloop and even a pink rollercoaster

Evening Standard

Shoreditch building where artists Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas had their legendary shop for sale for £1.5m

The property was converted into a four-bedroom house by its current owner who moved in just after the YBAs

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Chandler Bing pyjamas, a Shrigley frisbee and Bowie’s scarf: it’s the arts Christmas gift guide 2023

A Bear apron, a Van Gogh vase, a reversible Frida Kahlo jacket, a Britney death metal T-shirt … here, curated by our arts team, are 30 fabulous festive suggestions for the culture vulture in your life

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From Tracey Emin to Kiki Smith: National Gallery of Australia puts art by women in the spotlight

A new exhibition in Canberra charts how women artists of the 20th century have been consumed with the body – and changed the way it has been depicted

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Wallpaper* gift guide: shop arts & culture editor Hannah Silver’s picks

Our arts & culture editor’s gift guide puts a Sarah Lucas T-shirt, a Keith Haring radio and artful washing-up gloves in the frame

Evening Standard

The Big Autumn 2023 TV List: our must-watch rundown

As we head into the colder months, there’s plenty of reasons to stay indoors.

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Sarah Lucas’s joyful bodies express freedom – and are a riposte to Sunak’s binary Britain

The power of the British artist’s bronze, concrete and stuffed nylon bodies is to show our diverse society in all its liberating glory

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Philip Guston; Sarah Lucas: Happy Gas review – tragi-comic cartoonery

The delayed Philip Guston retrospective opens at last – and it is mordant, magnificent, unmissable. Over at the other Tate, Sarah Lucas’s repertoire of rude Britannia one-liners wears a little thin

Evening Standard

OPINION - Russell Brand has shown us women that we have made far less progress than we think

Georgina Baillie of Sachsgate fame has given many interviews over the last week, including to this newspaper. I’m sure she’s relieved to be finally given the platform to tell her story, which is, from every angle of a paparazzi lens, salutary.

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Sarah Lucas: Happy Gas review – bulging tights, pervy plinths and kinky boots

In this gloriously filthy show, the sculptor collides old and new work to make an exhilarating cornucopia of sex, jokes and death

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Sarah Lucas: Happy Gas at Tate Britain review: this is an intoxicated – and intoxicating – show

This superb survey exhibition reveals an artist at the height of her powers

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