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Royal Academy Summer Exhibition review – a gasping death-rattle of conservative mediocrity

Pampered pets, polite portraits and enough wan landscapes to fill a field – this show mirrors the numbed, aimless condition of Britain after 14 years of Tory misrule

The Guardian - UK

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Evening Standard

A colossal artistic joke – Flaming June at the Royal Academy review

A clever, titillating work offering easy visual thrills – Look at all that orange! Notice the nipple! – Frederic Leighton’s iconic painting is back in the UK while its Puerto Rico home undergoes repairs

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Entangled Pasts: Art, Colonialism and Change review – the most radical show in the RA’s history

The latest institution to confront its colonial past, the RA does so to enthralling effect, using the art and its subjects – spanning 250 years, from Turner to Lubaina Himid – rather than the wall texts to shock and enlighten

The Guardian - UK

The best exhibitions to see in London in 2024, from CUTE at Somerset House to Francis Bacon at the NPG

The capital's museums and galleries are a treasure trove of glorious art and ideas – here's our pick of the year's offerings

Evening Standard

The Last Supper recast: artist Tavares Strachan on reimagining Da Vinci’s dinner guests

He replaced Christ with Haile Selassie and took Judas’s place himself. The Bahamian’s epic artistic revisions, from space to the Arctic, hit Britain in 2024 – and the Royals are in his sights

The Guardian - UK

Marina Abramović at the Royal Academy review: nudity, danger and a whiff of woowoo

The later works in this survey get a bit crystals-and-trees, but the restaged historic performances have lost none of their power

Evening Standard

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‘I wake up happy! I’m singing all day’: Marina Abramović on pain, love – and her recent brush with death

The pioneer of extreme performance art is exploring the possibilities of happiness as, at 76, she becomes the first woman to have a full Royal Academy retrospective

The Guardian - UK

Herzog & de Meuron at the Royal Academy review

The architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron met at primary school in Basel back in 1957, said Robert Bevan in the Evening Standard. Since then, they have produced 600-plus buildings all over the world, ranging from luxury apartments to “cultural institutions”: in the UK alone, the cutting-edge projects they…

The Week

Modest review – rollicking tale of star Victorian artist

Elizabeth Thompson takes on the whiskered lads of the Royal Academy in a show that bubbles over with charisma

The Guardian - UK

Royal Academy’s Herzog & de Meuron show in London spotlights architecture for care

The Royal Academy of Arts launches its Herzog & de Meuron exhibition in London; we speak to them about the show, their approach to healthcare architecture and caring, and their rich body of work

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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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2023 review: my faith is restored, but only after a test

This display of depressing mediocrity is only saved by the work of a few true greats, like beacons in the mist

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Anthony Green obituary

Artist who mined the domestic details of his family life in unsettling works that he described as ‘rather like a strip cartoon’

The Conversation

Royal Academy’s Spain and the Hispanic World – an expert in Spanish art reviews the exhibition

The Royal Academy’s first big show of 2023 is unusual. As well as presenting an impressive collection from Spain and the Hispanic world (around 150 items covering over 4,000 years, including paintings, sculptures, maps, books and manuscripts), it also tells the story of the collection’s source – the Hispanic Society.

Daily Mirror

Just Stop Oil activists who glued themselves to Da Vinci painting fined just £175 each

Caspar Hughes sprayed onto the wall 'no new oil' and then he and Simon Bramwell, Jessica Agar, Lucy Porter and Tristan Strange glued themselves to the frame of the painting in July last year

Evening Standard

Just Stop Oil activists glued themselves to frame of £3.6m Last Supper painting, court hears

Five Just Stop Oil protestors charged with causing criminal damage at the Royal Academy of Arts are on trial at City of London Magistrates’ Court

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Activists glued themselves to frame of £3.6m Last Supper painting, court hears

Five Just Stop Oil protestors charged with causing criminal damage at the Royal Academy of Arts are on trial at City of London Magistrates’ Court.

The Independent UK

Tracey Emin and Antony Gormley works on offer in Royal Academy’s Ukraine charity auction

Pieces by Tracey Emin and Antony Gormley are among the works being bid on

The Guardian - UK

Spain and the Hispanic World review – a New York treasure trove takes a trip

The pick of Manhattan’s Hispanic Society Museum & Library, including masterpieces by Goya, El Greco and Velázquez, have been loaned to the UK for an unmissable show

The Guardian - UK

Spain and the Hispanic World review – royals, chinchillas, bullfights and blood

A beautiful Velázquez, fascinating maps, glazed pottery from Muslim craftsmen … US collector Archer Huntington amassed stupendous works – but is there more to this show than the spoils of one man’s grand tour?

Evening Standard

The best exhibitions in London this winter, from Chanel to Marina Abramović

It’s a fabulous season for art lovers...

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

This obscure portrait gave me goosebumps – but I never expected a bidding war

My film about Audrey Amiss was done. Now I had a chance to own a piece of her work, says film-maker Carol Morley

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