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Objects of Desire review – surreal lobster phones and a seaside sleazorama

A lamp in the form of a life-size horse, a chair made of soft toys, a lips settee begging to be bonked on – this delightful orgy of bad taste highlights perverse surrealist design from Dalí to today

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‘She paints with the brush in her ass’: the artists sharing their worst savagings

In the book Bad Reviews, 150 artists have revisited their most brutal critiques – from an ‘unforgiveable’ Carolee Schneemann sculpture to the critic who suggested the artist should be jailed

The Guardian - UK

Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics; Marcus Coates: The Directors – review

Schneemann’s personal life is almost as freely displayed as her genitals in a six-decade retrospective of her fiercely divisive work. Elsewhere, Coates channels the voices inside other people’s heads

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Smeared with mackerel, chased by police: the wild, miraculous art of Carolee Schneemann – review

Schneemann was inspirational, confrontational and joyously excessive, pulling art from her vagina and writhing naked through molasses and wallpaper paste. This thrilling show captures the sheer scope of a phenomenal artist

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Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics at Barbican - her brilliance as an artistic and political force never waned

This survey of work by the feminist art pioneer can get a bit chewy but the seminal pieces are a thrill

Evening Standard

Snakes, scrolls, swinging from chandeliers: how Carolee Schneemann transformed art

She staged an event even Duchamp said was messy, filmed herself having sex, unrolled a script from her vagina – and took art away from canvas and into the stuff of life itself

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Milton Avery: American Colourist review – pure, exhilarating uplift

The self-effacing late starter and mentor to Rothko, with a singular gift for capturing life through colour, bewitches in the first comprehensive show of his work in Europe

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Wild waves, perfect pipes: Milton Avery, the original abstract expressionist – review

As this brilliant exhibition shows, Avery was an experimental dreamer whose sublime landscapes and beach scenes paved the way for Rothko, Pollock and Newman

The Guardian - UK

Arts Round-Up: All the London exhibitions to see in July

Get your diaries ready, because there are tonnes of new exhibitions to see

Evening Standard

‘The Beatles? I was more a fan of the Beach Boys’: Peter Blake at 90 on pop art and clubbing with the Fab Four

The groundbreaking artist documented the birth of youth culture and created the most famous album cover in history. Now with a new exhibition, he talks about what inspires him – from corn dollies to music halls

The Guardian - UK

Haunted Realism review – a queasy, intoxicating view of late capitalism

Rachel Whiteread, Gerhard Richter, Jenny Saville and co explore the age of ‘lost futures’ in a group show that works best unimpeded by theory

The Guardian - UK

Artist Sonia Boyce: ‘Paintings are not born on walls’

The first black female artist to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale reflects on a career challenging the racial and sexual bias behind what art hangs in galleries – and around in our memories

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Yours for $200m: why Warhol is now worth more than Picasso

One of his portraits of Marilyn Monroe is expected to shatter records at auction next month. But was Andy Warhol just an ‘affectless hero’ of the media age? Or was he the greatest and most profound artist of his era?

The Guardian - UK

Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child review – everyday horror shows that reel you in

Strange, horrific, eerie, beautiful, this huge survey reveals an artist who both embraced and disdained the female realm

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