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Portraits of Dogs: From Gainsborough to Hockney review

We British “love our dogs”, said Rachel Campbell-Johnston in The Times. And since at least the 17th century, British artists have shown equal enthusiasm for depicting man’s best friend. Thomas Gainsborough painted his beloved mutts and put their portrait in “pride of place” above the mantelpiece in his London house…

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‘Before cancer I was really unhappy’: Tracey Emin on the joy of founding her own art school

When she thought she was dying, Emin vowed to create a lasting legacy. Now she has opened the doors of a new art school and studio complex in Margate, and found fulfilment in helping younger artists

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Portraits of Dogs review – pass the pooper-scooper, this one’s a stinker

This show of canine portraiture is so trite and desperate to please, it ends up insulting animals and audience alike

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Portraits of Dogs at the Wallace Collection review: canine culture will bow wow all doggie lovers

This exhibition of art featuring man’s best friend spans centuries, from a second century sculpture to David Hockney and Lucian Freud

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Lucian Freud portrait of daughter Isobel expected to fetch up to £20m at auction

Ib Reading, not seen in public for more than 20 years, was result of more than 70 sittings

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The joy of clothes on canvas: how painters celebrate fashion – and inspire it

Art and fashion influencing each other is nothing new – but, more than ever, there seems to be a beautiful cross-pollination going on between painters and designers

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Who is Ellie Bamber? Actress set to play Kate Moss in biopic

She’s the rising star picked by supermodel Kate Moss to play her in biopic, but where has Ellie Bamber come from?

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Ellie Bamber to play Kate Moss in new film on the model's relationship with Lucian Freud

Ellie Bamber is set to star as Kate Moss in new biopic Moss & Freud, which focuses on the model's relationship with the portrait painter

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Kate Moss helps to cast Ellie Bamber to play her in biopic

British supermodel has hand in choosing rising actor in film that recounts how she sat for Lucian Freud in 2002

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The anti-hibernation culture guide: something to enjoy for every day in January

You can spend the next few weeks under the duvet and in front of the telly, or enjoy world-class art, theatre, music, film and standup – here’s an event for each of the next 31 days

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The Artist’s Studio by James Hall review – lust, crime and creativity

From Bernini to Bacon, the artist’s studio has long been a place of passion and tragedy, offering a unique glimpse into the creative mind

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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

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A visual feast: 6 favorite coffee table and gift books of 2022

This year's selection of visual delights highlights the work of artists and designers who have made an enduring impact, including Lucian Freud, Elsa Schiaparelli and Patti Smith.

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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s enigmatic figures, sensational seeds and a heavyweight four-way face off – the week in art

Mysterious portraits of fictitious people, the roots of colonialism and the works of Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon and friends – all in your weekly dispatch

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Making Modernism review – the genius of Käthe Kollwitz stands out like a raw wound

This badly mistitled survey mistakenly pitches a selection of German expressionist women as revolutionaries – with one timeless exception

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‘A more anarchic city’: Darryl Pinckney on New York literary life in the 1970s

The novelist’s memoir evokes the ambition and thrill of writing alongside Gore Vidal, Susan Sontag, James Baldwin and his mentor Elizabeth Hardwick

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Cezanne, Seurat works headline $1 billion sale from late Microsoft co-founder's estate

Paintings by Paul Cezanne, Georges Seurat and Lucian Freud will go under the hammer next month in a sale of artworks from the estate of late Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen that is expected to raise more than $1 billion for philanthropic causes.

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Lucian Freud: New Perspectives; Marina Abramović: Gates and Portals – review

Lucian Freud’s dispassionate work speaks for itself in a liberating show without wall texts, while Marina Abramović pushes our critic to the brink

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Evening Standard

Actor Idris Elba axes Battersea wine bar plan as he can’t find the staff

IDRIS Elba’s plans to expand his wine bar company into Battersea have been pulled, according to his business partner.

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Lucian Freud’s portrait of Wolseley founder Jeremy King expected to sell for £350,000

King is selling the work from his own personal collection at Sotheby’s, on October 15

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Lucian Freud’s etching of Wolseley restaurant creator to be sold

Artist dined at Mayfair restaurant almost every night in later years, and would sometimes share a table with co-founder Jeremy King

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Lucian Freud review – the Queen, Leigh Bowery and the artist’s ex-wives stand brutally revealed

From the monarch to the naked performance artist who was living with Aids, Freud paints life lived in the face of death, with an unsentimental eye for human tendernesss

Evening Standard

Lucian Freud: New Perspectives at the National Gallery - unfortunately revealing

Freud was obsessed with the Old Masters; this show putting him in the thick of them doesn’t do him any favours

Evening Standard

How a National Gallery exhibition is giving us a new perspective on Lucian Freud

The largest exhibition of the artist’s work in a decade opens this week

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Pay what you can afford to see Lucian Freud’s controversial picture of the Queen

The first major exhibition of Lucian Freud’s work in 10 years will include that painting of Queen Elizabeth II

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