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Paula Rego: Crivelli’s Garden a ‘triumphant vision of female experience’

When Paula Rego was asked to paint a mural for the dining room of the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing in 1990, it “seemed a thoughtless insult”, said Laura Cumming in The Observer. The artist, who died last year aged 87, was renowned for focusing on the kinds of people normally…

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Paula Rego: Crivelli’s Garden; Jean Cooke: Ungardening review – women at work

Designed to be seen across dining crowds at the National Gallery, Rego’s 90s mural, inspired by Crivelli’s 15th-century one, comes alive in the details. And Cooke’s candid self-portraits find respite in flowers

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Great art surrounds Londoners – if they bother to notice it

From kaleidoscopic mosaics to modernist masterpieces, let’s open our eyes to the art hidden in plain sight

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Paula Rego: Crivelli’s Garden review – the scissors I get, but what’s with the frog?

Rego’s huge mural, painted 30 years ago for the Gallery’s restaurant, sits alongside the altarpiece that inspired it. Hers is less a feminist revolt than a celebration of perspective itself

The Guardian - UK

Paula Rego: Crivelli’s Garden at the National Gallery review: a superb, irreverent show

The artist creates a world rooted in the here and now but propels viewers into the realms of the imagination

Evening Standard

Sublime futurism, Renaissance inspiration and getting smashed – the week in art

Herzog & de Meuron build their dreams, Paula Rego cultivates Crivelli’s garden and Lindsey Mendick binge drinks – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

Comedy sculpture, the RA rambles, and Liverpool lets rip – the week in art

Erwin Wurm’s quirky work brightens up the Yorkshire sculpture park, Liverpool’s Biennial kicks off, and it’s time for another messy Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy

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Royal Academy Summer Exhibition review – flashes of brilliance amid the anodyne jumble sale

From lemons to cats to the inevitable stripper, there is much that is silly and mediocre – then magnificent works by the likes of Gillian Wearing and Paula Rego catch your eye

The Guardian - UK

A case of heartbreak? I prescribe Tracey Emin’s neons and Paula Rego’s dancers

At moments when we need to start all over again, great art is there to salve our wounded feelings and help point the way to the future

The Guardian - UK

The best art and design shows to visit in 2023

Queer Renaissance sculptor Donatello, Marina Abramović, David Hockney and a long-delayed mega-museum in Manchester – your art-design to-do list for the year ahead

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Paula Rego remembered by Lila Nunes

The Portuguese-British artist’s assistant and muse remembers her wonderful sense of humour and their daily ritual of coffee, chat and opera

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Letter: Dame Paula Rego obituary

Bruce Ross-Smith writes: Anthony Rudolf dedicated his Collected Poems to the artist, who was his companion

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Letter: Dame Paula Rego obituary

Michael Rowan-Robinson writes: In her studio the impression she gave was of seriousness and mastery

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The vital importance of humour in Paula Rego’s art

Letters: Giles Oakley on his very personal interpretation of Rego’s painting The Family, and Gillian Forrester on the dark, complex and disquieting humour in the artist’s work

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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

The Independent UK

Paula Rego: Artist who used her work to explore being a woman

The British-Portuguese painter sought to challenge the structures of power and authority that affect 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

The Conversation

Paula Rego: why the Portuguse artist's work remains relevant in the fight for abortion rights

The great feminist artist Paula Rego has died at the age of 87 after a short illness. An image-maker of enormous talent, her work has been variously described as disturbing, visceral, mysterious and surreal.

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Peter Blake gets Llareggub, the Boyle Family go fishing and Kent catches new stars – the week in art

The godfather of pop art illustrates Under Milk Wood, landmark avant gardists link up and it’s Biennale week in Whitstable – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

Digested week: marmalade sandwiches, cross princes and counting medals

The PR coup was Prince Louis’s boredom and the big question: how did so many senior royals come by so many medals?

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First Thing: Primetime January 6 congressional hearings to begin

Democrats hope movie-length episodes will ‘really blow the roof off the House’. Plus, the brutal impact of the Salvadoran government’s crackdown on gangs

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‘She could make anything part of a story’ – what Paula Rego chose to paint and why

However volatile her subject matter, her art never tells you what to feel, writes the Guardian’s art critic – although she could indulge in a kind of knockabout buffoonery

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‘These women are not victims’ – Paula Rego’s extraordinary Abortion series

The artist blazed into Portugal’s 1998 abortion referendum with powerful images of women in backstreet clinics. But there is no blood, no gore – just feeling. The works may have helped swing a later vote

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Thursday briefing: Johnson is promising a revolution in home ownership. Will it work?

In today’s newsletter: To win over a split party, the prime minister says he will expand right to buy – Thatcher’s hallmark if controversial housing policy – even though it’s almost certainly a bad idea

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‘She is dancing among the greats’: the dangerously honest, richly ambiguous Paula Rego

Art’s great storyteller has died at the age of 87. Our critic celebrates a woman of courage and freakish imagination

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