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Madrid museum shuffles its pack charting decades of rapid change in Spain

Reina Sofía’s three-year rehang of works by artists from Spain and beyond is billed as a ‘critical reinterpretation’

The Guardian - UK

The best art and photography of 2025 – from eye-boggling Bridget Riley to the Face’s riotous fashion

Jenny Saville’s bruising paintings, Andy Goldsworthy’s immersive stones, Lee Miller’s surrealist shots and Diane Arbus’s unforgiving nudes – our critics highlight a spectacular year

The Guardian - UK

‘To be really successful, you have to be sexy in a straight way’: Ben Whishaw on libidinous New York and playing Peter Hujar

Peter Hujar captured a queer Manhattan demi-monde that is now lost to Aids. Whishaw reveals what he learned playing the photographer in a minimalist film being hailed by some as a masterpiece

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‘I invited a dozen ex-boyfriends to dinner and taped it’: the amazing avant garde recordings of Linda Rosenkrantz

As her tape-recorder adventures are brought to the screen by Rebecca Hall and Ben Whishaw, the 90-year-old remembers how she got the NY art crowd – from Peter Hujar to Chuck Close – talking about drugs, orgies and psychoanalysis

The Guardian - UK

Peter Hujar’s Day review – Ben Whishaw goes low-key in snapshot of the photographer’s remarkable life

Whishaw is not tested by this verbatim retelling of Hujar’s day in hip 1970s New York, recounting encounters with Ginsburg, Burroughs and Leibowitz

The Guardian - UK

Peter Hujar: Eyes Open in the Dark review – visions of a vanished world

The American photographer Peter Hujar, who died of Aids complications in 1987, chronicles New York’s 70s and 80s gay scene – and much else besides – in this haunting retrospective

The Guardian - UK

Peter Hujar: Eyes Open in the Dark review – life, death and a gnarly dildo

These intense and intimate photographs of 70s and 80s New York – from a lounging William Burroughs to a masturbating dancer – constantly sweep you away

The Guardian - UK

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‘Between austerity and empathy’: UK show celebrates late New York photographer Peter Hujar

Hujar warmly captured gay life in downtown New York in the 1970s but was little known in his lifetime

The Guardian - UK

Sensual surrealism, Kiefer’s delights and Gehry’s Guggenheim: the best art and architecture shows to visit in 2025

Anselm Kiefer’s homage to Van Gogh, Ithell Colquhoun’s seaside of surrealism and Gilbert & George fill the galleries, while the V&A opens its archives at the illustrious new East Storehouse

The Guardian - UK

A snapshot of the bohemian downtown: Peter Hujar’s early photography on show in New York

‘Peter Hujar: Rialto’ is currently being exhibited at The Ukrainian Museum, New York

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8 Highlights from the Venice Biennale

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‘He was a born member of the underground’: how Peter Hujar captured the New York demimonde

He only published one book – and it was hardly noticed. Now his portraits of drag queens, poets and artists are seen as vital documents of a vanished world. As they go on show, the photographer’s favourite subjects recall his genius

The Guardian - UK

Peter Hujar: new exhibition celebrates his unflinching photos of gay life

At a new exhibition, the photographer’s work within the queer community of 70s and 80s New York takes center stage

The Guardian - US

‘Torture porn or serious literature?’: the love-hate phenomenon of cult novel A Little Life

One million copies sold, sobbing superfans on TikTok and a new stage adaptation starring James Norton – yet Hanya Yanagihara’s 2015 book continues to divides readers

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