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Yoko Ono’s bottoms, Frank Auerbach’s heads and visionary new landscapes – the week in art

The pop icon finally gets the retrospective she deserves while Tracey Emin and Judy Chicago unpick their textile pieces

The Guardian - UK · Feb 9, 2024

Frank Auerbach: The Charcoal Heads review: war-scarred faces on paper that has taken a pounding

These portraits from the dark postwar years have been so reworked that the paper is often gouged through. The results feel as war-damaged as his family – yet still thrillingly alive

The Guardian - UK · Feb 8, 2024

Frank Auerbach, The Charcoal Heads at the Courtauld Gallery review: at 92, he's still going strong

The iconic London artist’s work remains as arresting as ever

Evening Standard · Feb 8, 2024

Auerbach, grand master of paint, as hot-wired as a live grenade at 92

A mesmerising show of late, great self-portraits proves why Frank Auerbach is one of Britain’s most celebrated painters, writes Geordie Greig

The Independent UK · Apr 28, 2023

‘I’m doing what may be my last paintings’: Frank Auerbach on his new self-portraits and turning 92

He has painted the same people over and over, sometimes for 40 years, dabbing, rubbing out, then starting again. Although the great artist now has to hold onto his easel to work, he still hopes to die with a brush in his hand

The Guardian - UK · Apr 25, 2023

Frank Auerbach: Twenty Self-Portraits review – savage, compassionate and pineapple-like

Now in his 90s, the great German-British painter is finally putting his own face up for scrutiny – with wondrously strange results

The Guardian - UK · Apr 14, 2023

From The Silent Twins to Sam Ryder: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Whether it’s a magnetic drama about elective-mute twins or the leonine Eurovision nearly man’s debut LP, our critics have you covered for the next seven days

The Guardian - UK · Dec 10, 2022

Frank Auerbach: how artist drew himself for Covid ‘plague years’ drawings

The renowned British artist found inspiration in his own features after the pandemic left him without sitters

The Guardian - UK · Sep 18, 2022

Frank Auerbach: Unseen review – art that restores a sense of what it is to be human

Holocaust orphan Auerbach’s stunning paintings – tangled masses with hints of horror – have been brought out of the Tate’s vaults to resonate poignantly in a time of war

The Guardian - UK · Apr 1, 2022

The power of Auerbach, the perils of Venice and seaside pleasures from Martin Parr – the week in art

Head to Petworth for Frank Auerbach, Greenwich for Canaletto and Bournemouth for the beach – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK · Apr 1, 2022