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Isaac Julien review – Gwendoline Christie meets a cyborg starfish in a pleasure-seeker’s postmodern parlour

The video artist famous for his films charged with Black queer desire unleashes a kitsch, bombastic and rather glorious meditation on human connection

The Guardian - UK

Paula Rego review – tantalising drawings with the shoeprints left on them

Mischievous, moving and troubled tales of female oppression unspool across the largest ever exhibition of the artist’s drawings, which show an intuitive touch her paintings lack

The Guardian - UK

Lovers, haters, rivals and chums – Seeing Each Other: Portraits of Artists review

What happens when artists paint artists? From Lucian Freud and Celia Paul to Lubaina Himid and Claudette Johnson, this cracking show provides absorbing insights

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‘You can see affection, love, respect, rivalry’: what happens when artists paint each other?

Ever since Raphael included Leonardo and Michelangelo in a crowd scene of one of his works, artists have had a fascination with depicting their peers, as a new exhibition reveals

The Guardian - UK

Culture Agenda: The best things to do, hear, see or watch in Europe this week

London's Tate Modern explores the concept of home, Catalunya hosts its biggest cheese market, and Marvel's 'Thunderbolts*' rumbles on to the big screen. Here's what to look out for this week.

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Grayson Perry: ‘Of course I love the super-rich – they buy my work!’

THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: On the eve of a new exhibition, the artist talks to Geordie Greig about his alter ego ‘Claire’, surviving emotional abuse and why when he looks at exquisite Sèvres china, he thinks ‘Eastbourne charity shop’

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‘He said I sounded hysterical’: Celia Paul on lover Lucian Freud, his cold friends and the ‘devastating’ YBAs

In prose and in paint, the great artist Celia Paul is exorcising the ghosts of her past – from the cruelties of her lover Freud, to his offhand cohorts, and the YBA revolution that declared painting dead

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Motion in Stillness – compelling exhibition explores the art of dance and movement

The word “choreography” comes from the ancient Greek χορεία (choreia) and γραφή (graphos). It means the writing of movement. In Motion in Stillness: Dance and the Human Body in Movement, presented by Vortic and Victoria Miro at the Victoria Miro in London, a group of painters and sculptures are taking…

The Conversation

Out of office: what the Wallpaper editors have been doing this week

A week of jetsetting has seen the editors in Tokyo, Milan, Vienna, Miami, New York and drinking Guinness with Jonathan Anderson in London

Wallpaper

‘To represent blackness as beautiful was radical’: the astonishing art – and lives – of the Holder brothers

From ballet-dancing in New York to playing a Bond villain, Trinidad-born brothers Boscoe and Geoffrey Holder led extraordinary lives. But it’s as trailblazing painters of black portraits and nudes that they will be remembered

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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

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‘This can’t be art, there’s too much fun!’ Doron Langberg on his sex-fuelled queer rave paintings

The leading light of art movement the New Queer Intimists explains why his lifesize, explicit nightclub works had to be smeared into life with his hands

The Guardian - UK

Do you remember the first time? Jonathan Coe, Róisín Murphy and more on their artistic debuts

What drew Howardena Pindell to painting circles? Is the album Sleaford Mods pressed just 50 copies of any good? And which TV spoof sent Kiell Smith-Bynoe viral? Writers, musicians, artists and actors recall their earliest works – warts and all

The Guardian - UK

Chris Ofili: The Seven Deadly Sins review – sacred, seductive and sensational

Full of giddying detail and unfathomable mystery, these large, luxurious and deeply complex paintings are among the most beguiling works the artist has ever made

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Isaac Julien: What Freedom Is to Me review – ghosts, dandies and seduction

Luxurious, dreamlike and made to carry the weight of race, sex and politics, the free-roaming films of Isaac Julien beguile but mystify

Evening Standard

Frieze for free? The best art fair exhibitions to see at London’s galleries

Cheat the system and enjoy some of the world’s great art, for nothing

Evening Standard

The best exhibitions to see in London in autumn 2022, from Lucian Freud to Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

How to get your art fix in the capital

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Howardena Pindell: A New Language review – beautiful, unforgettable warnings

Tragedy, horror and everyday racism are countered with fearless grace by the American artist in this five-decade retrospective

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Howardena Pindell review – from sheer painterly bliss to depictions of appalling racial terror

In a jaw-dropping show that includes ghostly abstract canvases and horrifying historical videos, Pindell’s majestic works come together to tell the story of America’s blood-soaked past

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Paula Rego, an appreciation: ‘She painted to find out what she felt’

In person and in her imaginative work, the artist was a fierce, mischievous presence, championing women’s lives

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‘Indefatigable, curious, 100% original’: female artists on Paula Rego

Her paintings frightened Lubaina Himid; she gave an indelible tutorial to Tacita Dean; and she changed Caroline Walker’s view of the world. Great women artists remember Rego, who died this week

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Dame Paula Rego obituary

Painter whose powerful images of women disrupted the male gaze

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