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5 things to know about Daphne Oram, the visionary pioneer in electronic music

Daphne Oram (1925–2003) was one of Britain’s most important early electronic composers. Oram trained first as a pianist and composer and turned down a place at the Royal College of Music to work at the BBC, where late-night tape experiments and hands-on work with microphones and oscillators drew her from…

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Turner v Constable: Tate Britain exhibition invokes long history of artistic rivalries

From Michelangelo and Leonardo to Picasso and Matisse, bitter feuds have defined art. But are contemporary artists more collaborative than their renaissance predecessors?

The Guardian - UK

Maggi Hambling and Sarah Lucas: Ooo La La review – from the sublime to the ridiculous

The two artists, friends, are paired in this joint show that juxtaposes Lucas’s precise and witty sculptures with Hambling’s semi-abstract dollops

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Wayne McGregor: Infinite Bodies at Somerset House: 'The future of bodies in an AI world'

4/5 A staggering exhibition at Somerset House where choreographer Wayne McGregor explores the future of bodies in an AI world

Evening Standard

The painting that haunts me – seven experts share their favourite scary artwork

With Halloween approaching, we asked seven of our academic experts to tell us about the most unsettling artwork they’ve ever encountered. From gruesome portraits to creepy critters, these are the paintings that have stayed with them long after their first glimpse.

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WH Auden formed ‘intense friendship’ with sex worker who burgled him, unseen letters reveal

Exclusive: The newly released correspondence reveals how a strong bond developed between the Funeral Blues poet and the sex worker who broke into his home

The Guardian - UK

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

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The Two Roberts by Damian Barr review – lost story of a gay art duo

The lives of Scottish artists Bobby MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun, who found love and fame and lost it all, are vividly reimagined

The Guardian - UK

‘They had everything, then nothing’: the prodigies the art world forgot

Robert Colquhoun and Bobby MacBryde were once the golden boys of London’s art scene – photographed in Vogue, filmed by Ken Russell and lauded by Francis Bacon. So why did they vanish into obscurity?

The Guardian - UK

Francis Bacon’s Essays explore the darker side of human nature. 400 years on, they still instruct and unnerve

In our guides to the classics, experts explain key literary works.

The Conversation

Gameshows, Cliff Richard and Stalin’s most hated play: the British culture sent behind the iron curtain

A thaw in relations during the Cold War led to some surprising collaborations between the two nations, involving everyone from Laurence Olivier and Rudolf Nureyev to Gilbert and George. As relations ice over again, what can we learn from this artistic detente?

The Guardian - UK

Sir Brian Clarke obituary

Pop-influenced artist whose stained-glass creations adorned churches, mosques, airports and offices around the world

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Jenny Saville at the National Portrait Gallery: 'mythic art of the flesh'

5/5 Jenny Saville’s huge new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery shows her as a student of the Old Masters and 20th Century abstract artists, but with a visceral magic all of her own that feels utterly timely

Evening Standard

I have seen the light and it’s Tracey Emin’s Jesus – RA Summer Exhibition review

With an extraordinary painting by Emin, great works by Cindy Sherman, Cornelia Parker and Sean Scully, assisted by some perving from Allen Jones, this annual jamboree has returned to relevance

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Damien Hirst at 60: a genius who never stops stretching our understanding of art and life – or a tired trickster ruined by his riches?

“I’m an artist, I have no idea about money.”

The Guardian - UK

Phallic symbols, bare buttocks and warrior poses: how physique magazines grew a cult gay following

Masquerading as health and fitness publications, these journals contained photographs of finely muscled, nearly naked men that were beautifully lit and classically posed. Now a gorgeous new book is celebrating these ‘museum-worthy’ images

The Guardian - UK

Brian Singer obituary

Other lives: Art conservationist and lecturer who advised on treatment of paintings by artists including Francis Bacon and Edvard Munch

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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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‘Champagne for my real friends!’ Francis Bacon masterpiece escapes to the artist’s old drinking den

Seeing Bacon’s stunning depiction of his lover Peter Lacy hanging in a reincarnation of the watering hole where his skeletal friends would drink, stagger and cackle was a fleeting yet unforgettable experience

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22 Years Later, The Most Iconic Apocalypse Thriller Of The 21st Century Reveals Its Wildly Different Monster

The original inspiration for the zombies in '28 Days Later' might not be what you thought. Here's a glimpse of what could have been.

The Guardian - UK

Iconic review – Bardot, Bacon and the Beatles bestride the plastic fantastic age

This compact yet brilliant show looks at how painters responded to the subjugation of real life in the 1960s media age, with its explosion of photos, film and mass reproduction

The Guardian - UK

Unseen work by Frank Bowling with hidden image of late son goes on show

Abstract expressionist’s mysterious painting joins portraits by Warhol, Bacon and Hockney in Bath exhibition

The Independent UK

London Art Fair showcases global talent and British icons as it returns for its 37th year

With galleries from 18 countries and works ranging from Francis Bacon to emerging European artists, the 2025 London Art Fair celebrated its most international edition yet

Evening Standard

Things to do in London this weekend, from Billie Eilish to Bill Bailey

Mike Daw returns with his pick of the best things to see, do and hear this weekend

The Conversation

Interns, vampires and a nice piece of Bacon – what to see and do this week

What else is January for but hunkering down with a good book or film, spinning out the time till payday? If your Christmas spending has just about left you with the price of a cinema ticket, there’s plenty on offer to enjoy this week.

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