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Picasso: printmaker at the British Museum review – an eye-opener of a show in more ways than one

4/5 Every aspect of Picasso’s development is reflected in his printmaking and thus in this excellent show

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Francis Bacon at the National Portrait Gallery is an emotional tour de force

‘Francis Bacon: Human Presence’ at the National Portrait Gallery in London puts the spotlight on Bacon's portraiture

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'I want them to be tender': Gary Hume on his new artworks at Sprüth Magers in London

With Gary Hume’s exhibition ‘Mirrors and Other Creatures’ now open at Sprüth Magers, the artist speaks of swans, their curves, and why ‘it’s brilliant’ being a painter

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Peggy Guggenheim: ‘My motto was “Buy a picture a day” and I lived up to it’

Five years spent at her Sussex country retreat inspired Peggy Guggenheim to reframe her future, kickstarting one of the most thrilling modern-art collections in history

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Put levy on smartphones to help creatives survive AI threat, top UK artists tell Labour

Open letter to culture secretary also proposes ‘freelancers’ commissioner’ to champion cause of the low-paid

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Damien Hirst takes over Château La Coste

Damien Hirst’s ‘The Light That Shines’ at Château La Coste includes new and existing work, and takes over the entire 500-acre estate in Provence

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When Forms Come Alive; Beyond Form: Lines of Abstraction 1950-70 review – a restless triumph and a badly lit jumble sale

Rising, falling, like entrails, clouds, tentacles… sculpture spanning 60 years breaks free in the Hayward’s tremendous group show. In Margate, another sculpture-heavy show squanders two decades of abstract art by women

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Life’s rich tapestry: the unsung wonders of textile art

Fibre art has long been a subversive medium. A new show at the Barbican unravels its power to reflect on everything from giving birth to racial oppression

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Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin among thousands of British artists used to train AI software, Midjourney

US lawyers approached about a class action against Midjourney and other AI firms accused of ‘copyright laundering’

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Charleston aims to bring Bloomsbury group works back to ‘rightful home’

Charity that runs house in East Sussex launches bid to fill gaps in collection with ‘treasures’ held in private hands

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The week in TV: Sex Education; Chris Packham: Is It Time to Break the Law?; Picasso: The Beauty and the Beast; Juice – review

The game-changing school drama comes of age in its final season; a despairing Chris Packham considers abandoning peaceful protest. Plus, Picasso in the round and the comedy surrealism of Mawaan Rizwan

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Capturing the Moment review – not a serious exhibition

You can’t move for masterpieces – most of them owned by the Taiwanese collector Pierre Chen – but this supposed journey through painting and photography is rambling and at times comically simplistic

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Drake and The Weeknd AI track goes viral: What does this mean for music?

The rise of AI generated vocals is sparking conversation in the music industry

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Souls Grown Deep Like the Rivers: Black Artists from the American South review – hardwon labours of love

Conjured out of found objects, plant juice, even dirt, the work of 34 Black artists from the American south is jubilant, defiant, awkward, profound – and innately free

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Souls Grown Deep Like the Rivers review – art of poverty and resilience from the US south

This moving show considers the wealth of inventive and influential work by African American artists from communities that remained in southern states after the civil war

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Souls Grown Deep like the Rivers at the Royal Academy review: an essential show

Artists like Lonnie Holley, Thornton Dial and Joe Minter are finally getting due attention, but this exhibition will leave visitors wanting more

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Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle; Action, Gesture, Paint – review

The American artist puts her sitters at such ease that, one way or another, they reveal all in a superbly curated show of her life’s work

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Mohammed Sami: The Point 0; Giorgio Morandi: Masterpieces from the Magnani-Rocca Foundation – review

The masterly paintings of Baghdad-born Mohammed Sami conjure an ominous no man’s land. And vases conspire with jugs in the still lifes of Giorgio Morandi

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Giorgio Morandi review – sublime still lives shimmer with mystery and joy

Humble, haunting and deeply enigmatic, these masterful paintings resist obvious symbolism to show us the poetry of the everyday

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Making Modernism review – four female trailblazers up close and personal

Intimate and exquisite revelations from Paula Modersohn-Becker, Käthe Kollwitz, Gabriele Münter and Marianne Werefkin are constrained by gallery space

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Damning Damien Hirst for publicity stunts is like panning Van Gogh for painting flowers

The controversial artist has generated headlines by burning his own artworks, which were estimated to be worth £10m. But let’s not forget that Hirst has made his fortune by turning his every move into a global media event, writes Mark Hudson

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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

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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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