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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

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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

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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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Paula Rego: Crivelli’s Garden review – the scissors I get, but what’s with the frog?

Rego’s huge mural, painted 30 years ago for the Gallery’s restaurant, sits alongside the altarpiece that inspired it. Hers is less a feminist revolt than a celebration of perspective itself

Evening Standard

Paula Rego: Crivelli’s Garden at the National Gallery review: a superb, irreverent show

The artist creates a world rooted in the here and now but propels viewers into the realms of the imagination

The Guardian - UK

Sublime futurism, Renaissance inspiration and getting smashed – the week in art

Herzog & de Meuron build their dreams, Paula Rego cultivates Crivelli’s garden and Lindsey Mendick binge drinks – all in your weekly dispatch

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Comedy sculpture, the RA rambles, and Liverpool lets rip – the week in art

Erwin Wurm’s quirky work brightens up the Yorkshire sculpture park, Liverpool’s Biennial kicks off, and it’s time for another messy Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy

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Royal Academy Summer Exhibition review – flashes of brilliance amid the anodyne jumble sale

From lemons to cats to the inevitable stripper, there is much that is silly and mediocre – then magnificent works by the likes of Gillian Wearing and Paula Rego catch your eye

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A case of heartbreak? I prescribe Tracey Emin’s neons and Paula Rego’s dancers

At moments when we need to start all over again, great art is there to salve our wounded feelings and help point the way to the future

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The best art and design shows to visit in 2023

Queer Renaissance sculptor Donatello, Marina Abramović, David Hockney and a long-delayed mega-museum in Manchester – your art-design to-do list for the year ahead

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