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Chris Martin loves her. Yungblud thinks she’s a ‘rock star’: Meet the eightysomething vocal coach essential to the stars

IN FOCUS: Mary Hammond has helped everyone from Adele to Cruz Beckham to sing better. Coldplay’s Chris Martin and Yungblud, among others, tell Patrick Smith what makes her so special – ‘The bigger you get, the more truth you need to hear’

The Independent UK

Michaelina Wautier review: Intensely pleasurable look at neglected female artist

5/5 This almost unknown mid-seventeenth century Flemish artist can stand alongside the greats

Evening Standard

Rose Wylie, art world pioneer at 91: ‘Success, if it comes earlier, can entrap you a bit’

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2026: Last week, Rose Wylie became the first female painter to have a solo show in the Royal Academy’s main galleries. She tells Jessie Thompson about why she’s never minded being misunderstood

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The Guardian view on an explosion of solo exhibitions by women: move over old masters

Editorial: From a landmark Tracey Emin show at Tate Modern to the first female painter in the Royal Academy’s main space, the art world is finally catching up

The Guardian - UK

Landscape by Sir Winston Churchill to go on display in UK for first time

Quiet Waters will feature in an exhibition of the wartime prime minister’s paintings and art materials at Chartwell in Kent.

Evening Standard

‘I like my footballers wispy – or monumental!’ Rebel artist Rose Wylie on still painting till 3am at 91

Underestimated for too long, Wylie is now wanted by galleries worldwide and her giant, wild, witty paintings – of Hollywood stars, soccer greats, black swans and flying bombs – fetch huge sums. We visit her relaxed studio in Kent

The Guardian - UK

Royal Academy’s first female president given Freedom of the City of London

British abstract artist Rebecca Salter has exhibited all over the world including at the Tate, British Museum and Victoria & Albert Museum.

Evening Standard

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Turner & Constable review – boiling portentous skies versus two men and a dog

JMW Turner is beaten by John Constable in this mighty show. But who cares when the work is so sublime you can hear the squelching and smell the river?

The Guardian - UK

Mrinalini Mukherjee and Her Circle at the Royal Academy review: 'collapses hierarchies'

4/5 Curator Tarini Malik brings together works from India’s 20th-century modernist movement with great effect

Evening Standard

Meet the ultra-rich Indians shaking up London's art scene

It’s boom time for Indian art: the market is at an all-time high, while London has had a slew of exhibitions focused on South Asian artists, supported by a new class of megadonors

Evening Standard

A Story of South Asian Art review – banging sculpture marred by dreary neighbours

Royal Academy, London Mrinalini Mukherjee’s surreal spins on Indian folk and sacred art are powerfully fascinating, but they gain nothing from works shown with them here

The Guardian - UK

Marina Abramović on heartbreak, happiness and her 'craziest' project yet

Marina Abramović, the grand dame of performance art, on sex, death, the problem with marriage — and why her new show is ‘the craziest thing I’ve ever done in my entire life’

Evening Standard

Bryan Kneale obituary

Artist and teacher who began as a painter and became a sculptor of elegant abstract works

The Guardian - UK

‘My paintings don’t fit the narrative’: Kerry James Marshall on why he’s depicting black enslavers

He is arguably America’s greatest living painter, elevating everyday black life to the level of epic, jaw-dropping masterpieces. Now, for his biggest European show, the artist talks us through his disturbing new works

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Sir Nicholas Grimshaw obituary

Architect known for the exposed structures of his buildings and the geodesic domes of the Eden Project

The Guardian - UK

Kerry James Marshall review – astonishing visions of black America, from bar-room boozers to families in space

Kidnappings, enslavement, cops and squad cars, golfers, picnics, croquet-players, interstellar travellers … the US artist’s largest ever European show takes in an extraordinary range of experience in a breathtaking show

Evening Standard

Campaign launched to bring only Turner oil painting of Bristol back to city

The one-week campaign, named Bring Turner Home, aims to return the piece to the city.

The Conversation

Bingeable comedy, a Jim Crow-era vampire thriller and William Morris mania – what to watch, read and do this week

I recently bought a Now TV subscription because we are in prime prestige TV season and I needed it to watch The White Lotus and The Last of Us. Deep into those big, confronting shows (which are brilliant but, let’s be honest, a lot), I was looking for something that…

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Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo at the Royal Academy is dark and brilliant

The Royal Academy’s latest exhibition, Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo offers a rare glimpse into the dark and moody world of the renowned writer best known for his novels The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and Les Misérables.

Evening Standard

Visitor numbers plunge at London art museums as Tate galleries lose 2.7 million in five years

Visitor numbers at Tate galleries have plunged by over 30 per cent since 2019

Evening Standard

Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo at the Royal Academy review : 'unnerving'

3/5 Victor Hugo was a prolific artist as well as a towering author and poet, but his strange work is more interesting and unnerving than truly great

The Guardian - UK

Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo review – masterpieces from a man with a heart as big as the Notre Dame

From hanged men and inky cephalopods to shadowy gothic castles, these cosmic, horror-tinged works let the Les Misérables writer and liberal political campaigner speak directly to us

The Guardian - UK

Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism review – spot the standouts in lavish display of bafflingly weak art

Harking back to a wartime RA show, this mishmash of 20th-century Brazilian art, much of it in thrall to European modernism, ends exactly where it should begin…

The Guardian - UK

‘Abnormal art is the only good art’: how Flávio de Carvalho sparked a Brazilian revolution

He donned a skirt to shock his conservative countrymen – and got bundled into a police station for his own protection. As his work appears in the RA’s Brasil! Brasil! show, we celebrate a luminary of modernism

The Guardian - UK

‘A standout figure’: UK to mark JMW Turner’s 250th birthday with year of events

Museums and galleries announce festival of events and exhibitions to celebrate influential British artist

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