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‘People are picking the dumbest fights’: the tortured history of America’s culture wars

In a new book, Isaac Butler goes back to the 1980s to trace how battles started against the arts, from Piss Christ to Mapplethorpe, and looks at what we can learn for today

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Georg Baselitz obituary

Painter and sculptor whose raw, expressive works reflected on postwar Germany and courted controversy over his 60-year career

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GBSR Duo: For Philip Guston review – Feldman’s marathon minimalism rewards deep listening

At over four hours without a break, Morton Feldman’s work dedicated to his artist friend is challenging, but in a rare live performance, the concentration of its performers made it an unforgettable experiencence

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Andy Warhol would have hated safe spaces. So why keep dragging dead artists into today’s culture wars?

Critics and curators are reframing great artists, from Gentileschi to Soutine, to fit with modern ethical narratives. But this ignores the glorious ambivalence of their creations

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Long-lost anti-fascist mural from 1930s restored and back on show in Mexico

Philip Guston and Reuben Kadish’s The Struggle Against Terrorism revealed as some fear resurgence of fascism

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All the Rage by Josh Cohen review – seeing red

The psychoanalyst examines how rage has become the defining colour of our social and political lives, in this strangely unsettled and unsettling work

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‘A crazy can-do mentality’: what made New York’s Met one of the world’s mega museums?

It has 1.5m artefacts, 6m visitors, 2,000 staff – and gets by on donations. Max Hollein, the Met’s Austrian-born boss, relives his first five years, when he faced accusations of hoarding, narco-philanthropy and male dominance

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Rachel Cooke’s best graphic novels of 2023

From a beautiful 20th anniversary edition of Craig Thompson’s classic to Camille Jourdy’s gorgeously illustrated Juliette, here are the best of this year’s releases

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On my radar: Chris Bush’s cultural highlights

The award-winning playwright on one of pop’s most extraordinary voices, role-playing drag queens and the scathing wit of her favourite foodie website

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The Big Autumn 2023 TV List: our must-watch rundown

As we head into the colder months, there’s plenty of reasons to stay indoors.

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Nicole Eisenman review – Castration? Giving birth while being hanged? Nothing is too OTT here

As erudite as it is fun, this daring American painter’s electrifying retrospective proves nothing is too silly, too trashy, too raunchy or too difficult for her to attempt

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Philip Guston: controversial delayed Tate show asks 'what would it be like to be evil?'

American painter Philip Guston’s (1913-1980) work was filled with creative innovation. But the paintings he is best known for are the series of cartoonish hooded figures begun in the late 1960s.

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Philip Guston; Sarah Lucas: Happy Gas review – tragi-comic cartoonery

The delayed Philip Guston retrospective opens at last – and it is mordant, magnificent, unmissable. Over at the other Tate, Sarah Lucas’s repertoire of rude Britannia one-liners wears a little thin

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‘What would it be like to be evil?’ Controversial Philip Guston show ridicules the virus-like KKK

Delayed after the murder of George Floyd, this show has now arrived in Britain accompanied by warnings. Our critic revels in the American’s cartoonish renderings of everyday objects – and the hate groups lurking in our midst

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Philip Guston at Tate Modern review: riven with anger, engorged with love, haunted by suffering

Finally this much-postponed, angsted-over show has arrived in London and Guston’s anti-fascist feelings could not be more evident

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American anxiety, Georgian fireworks and a Black British pioneer – the week in art

Philip Guston paints an unhinged States, Claudette Johnson’s haunting drawings get a big show and a magical light is shone on the 18th century – all in your weekly dispatch

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Sarah Lucas, Philip Guston and women revolt: the best art and architecture of autumn 2023

An American great for the age of Trump, a baroque master’s feminine side and 20 contentious years for women’s art are among the highlights ahead

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‘I’m staying at Larry Gagosian’s place’ – Stanley Whitney’s long journey from rat-infested New York

His wobbly blocks of high-key colours, painted while listening to Miles Davis, have made Whitney America’s greatest Black abstract artist. As a new show opens in the UK, he relives his tough early days

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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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