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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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

‘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

The Guardian - UK

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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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.

Evening Standard

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

Evening Standard

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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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

Evening Standard

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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National Gallery announces ‘pay what you wish’ scheme amid cost-of-living crisis

Visitors can pay as much or as little as they like with a £1 minimum fee for a new Lucian Freud exhibition.

The Guardian - UK

A wave of Korean art, the sound of Turner and Freud goes to the races – the week in art

The V&A’s new show is a dazzling historical remix, Tate Liverpool sets an English master to music, while Lucian Freud’s love for the turf is revealed – all in your weekly dispatch

Evening Standard

The Queen’s portraits - how countless artists have made an icon of a figurehead of state

Her face has imbued our cultural consciousness since she was a child

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From corgis to controversy, these are the most striking portraits of Queen Elizabeth II

The Queen sat for more than 200 official portraits during her reign and often let modern artists to do their own thing — which caused a fair share of controversy.

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The Independent UK

Autumn culture guide 2022: From Lucian Freud to My Neighbour Totoro, Blonde to The Crown

We pick the new season’s highlights in our ultimate guide to what to book and binge-watch over the next few months

The Guardian - UK

Idealised, gilded or defaced, Queen Elizabeth's image dominated our age

From Beaton to Warhol, from the Sex Pistols to the coins in our pockets, the Queen’s face has been everywhere

Evening Standard

The best exhibitions to see in London in autumn 2022, from Lucian Freud to Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

How to get your art fix in the capital

The Guardian - UK

Winslow Homer, Cézanne and Zaha Hadid: the best art and architecture of autumn 2022

The exhibition of the year is here, plus we have South Korean pop culture, a Sudanese women’s champion, decoded Egyptian hieroglyphs, Zaha Hadid’s ‘yonic stadium’ and a rare showing for the ‘American Turner’

The Guardian - UK

I can only stand in baffled awe as my husband’s novel is brought to life on film

Just as he couldn’t explain to me what inspired his characters, I can’t divine what he thinks of this adaptation

The Independent UK

Mexican icon Frida Kahlo to be subject of new stage musical

Painters have long been the subject of stage shows — think Mark Rothko, Seurat, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Lucian Freud

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