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Edvard Munch’s formative influence on Paula Rego revealed in unearthed painting

‘It’s so impressive that you can’t imagine,’ wrote a 16-year-old Rego to her mother after seeing a Munch exhibition in London in 1951

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Unimportant monuments, a bass-player’s buildings and macabre Rego unleashed – the week in art

Artists turn from the heroic to the everyday, Paula Rego gives everyone a fright and a stealth wealth still life is subtly revealing – all in your weekly dispatch

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Secrets of the cow-skulled scarecrow: did one man’s cruel tales inspire Paula Rego’s best paintings?

When the great artist saw a shocking play by Martin McDonagh about the torture of children, she asked him for more dark stories. As the vivid, extraordinary works they triggered go on show, the playwright looks back

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That’s all folk: Marina Warner, the curator and mythographer creating a space for stories

Shadow puppets, otherworldly masks, taxidermy dioramas, from Greek epics to the Brothers Grimm: a new exhibition celebrates the fantastical tales that have passed through countries and cultures

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The Heat review – Paula Rego’s dog women inhabit Becky Namgauds’ frisky, feral dance-theatre

The choreographer’s unapologetic depiction of female instincts fills a suburban living room with surreal scenes of suppressed sexuality and rage

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‘When a woman needs more than ever to take care of herself, she is pulled away in two directions’: Diana Evans on the ‘sandwich generation’

Work has always been central to the novelist’s existence. So what happened when she found herself caring for her elderly mother and two children – and suddenly unable to write?

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In Attendance: Paying Attention in a Fragile World review – visions of mortality abound

In a former hospital chapel replete with its own stories, works by Paula Rego, Phyllida Barlow and others resonate in their exquisitely contemplative surroundings

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There’s nothing meek or mild about childbirth: why have male artists sanitised the Virgin Mary?

She may be the most painted woman in history, almost always portrayed as subservient, pure, chaste – and never actually giving birth. Thank goodness female artists like Paula Rego and Esther Strauss provided a reality check

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Rachel Reeves swaps Nigel Lawson portrait for one of Labour MP ‘Red Ellen’

Chancellor has previously pledged to ensure all art in No 11 is either by female artists or of female figures

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Uncanny Visions: Rego and Goya review – it’s Little Miss Muffet vs the horrors of war

Goya’s disturbing etchings, full of terrors plucked from the edge of the abyss, leave Rego’s mildly subversive Nursery Rhymes looking like superficial sketches

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From The Substance to Uncanny Visions: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Demi Moore defies ageing in a juicy body horror, while Paula Rego and Goya share their nightmares in Bath

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From Van Gogh to Le Va, Rego to the Renaissance: the best exhibitions for autumn 2024

From this year’s Turner prize and pioneering scatter art to Monet’s London and Goya’s surreal visions – there’s something for all art lovers

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Art can change the world, but can it save us from climate extinction?

While the climate emergency endangers nature, Judy Chicago’s artworks give it a voice – she joins a great tradition of women using art to influence laws

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Paula Rego ‘masterpiece’ may set record for artist at Sotheby’s auction

Meadow has top-end initial estimate of about £3m, as Rego’s work about gender and abortion finds new audiences

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The Taotie; A Spirit Inside; Landscape and Imagination review – three superb shows mark 20 years of Compton Verney

The Georgian mansion turned world-class art venue celebrates its birthday with a trio of excellent exhibitions

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Marlborough Gallery to call it quits after nearly 80 years in a fast-evolving art scene

Stately gallery founded in 1946 in the age of high-minded modernism finally had to succumb to a new reality

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Marlborough Gallery: ‘blue chip’ art institution to close after nearly 80 years

Locations in London, New York, Barcelona and Madrid to be shut ‘after long and careful consideration’

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Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood review – all of life starts here

Plunging into the joy, heartache, mystery and amazement of motherhood, more than 100 works by artists including Paula Rego, Chantal Joffe and Celia Paul offer a riveting riposte to the infamous pram in the hall

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Natalie Dower obituary

Other lives: Highly experimental artist never afraid to use new materials

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The best art and architecture shows to visit in 2024

Yoko Ono’s cheeky pieces, a gut punch from Goya and the National’s centenary celebrations will fill the UK’s galleries, while the Louvre’s architect takes his moment in the sun in this stupendous year

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Roman Abramovich amassed one of the world’s most impressive private stores of modern art

The Guardian’s art critic examines the collection amassed by the oligarch and his ex-wife Dasha Zhukova, which includes Freuds, Picassos and Russian modernism

Evening Standard

The best exhibitions this week in London, from Donna Huddleston to Simnikiwe Buhlungu (September 9 to 16)

We pick the best art shows to enjoy this week

The Week

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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