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First show in 100 years of disabled Victorian artist Sarah Biffin opens in London

Accomplished miniaturist and a household name in 19th century was born without arms and hands

The Guardian - UK

Fuseli and the Modern Woman review – a dark, perverse mindset laid bare

Absurdist updos, bulbous buttocks – the Swiss painter’s surrealist portrayals of women go into the weird recesses of the 18th-century gothic imagination

The Guardian - UK

William Kentridge review – never ceases to mesmerise

The spectres of oppression and its victims in his country and beyond are conjured by the South African artist William Kentridge in an epic show spanning 40 years

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On my radar: Claes Bang’s cultural highlights

The Danish actor on a horror film from his homeland, the physical impact of Francis Bacon and his favourite London restaurant

The Guardian - UK

Marina Abramović’s Gates and Portals review – why surrender your liberty to these wafer-thin ideas?

The artist is not present in her latest show. Instead, visitors are shuffled about by volunteers trained in her Method, with a hint of Blair Witch ritual

The Guardian - UK

William Kentridge review – the sound and the fury

Forty years of work whirl before us, the violence of apartheid, inequality and brutality underpinning it all, as Kentridge’s drawn images merge into animations, filmed performance and sculpture

The Guardian - UK

William Kentridge at Royal Academy review: Overstretched show doesn’t play to the artist’s strengths

A solo show in the RA’s Main Galleries is an honour – but one that doesn’t come without a degree of risk

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William Kentridge at the Royal Academy review: testament to a genuinely unique vision

This show teems with imagery and ideas from the start

Evening Standard

The best exhibitions to see in London in autumn 2022, from Lucian Freud to Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

How to get your art fix in the capital

Evening Standard

TV tonight: Joe Lycett befriends the UK’s most weird but wonderful artists

The comedian meets those who entered the Royal Academy’s annual public art show. Plus: the last and most poignant episode in the Rolling Stones series. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Fred Cuming obituary

Landscape artist and teacher who captured the beauty of England’s cloudy and rainy skies

The Guardian - UK

Milton Avery: American Colourist review – pure, exhilarating uplift

The self-effacing late starter and mentor to Rothko, with a singular gift for capturing life through colour, bewitches in the first comprehensive show of his work in Europe

The Guardian - UK

Just Stop Oil demonstrators in protest at London’s Royal Academy

The protesters glued themselves to the frame of a copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper.

The Independent UK

‘There was only one possible theme’: Alison Wilding on her climate crisis Summer Exhibition

Environmental change is the subject of this year’s Royal Academy show in London but, says its curator, ‘there is a celebratory aspect’

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Dürer in Birmingham, Hockney in Normandy and a not-so-hot climate crisis show – the week in art

Stunning works from Renaissance grandee Albrecht Dürer, David Hockney’s French spring scenes and the Royal Academy’s dull take on global heating

The Guardian - UK

‘We wanted to offer a sense of hope’: architects build on the climate crisis

The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition showcases daring use of planet-friendly materials from Portland stone to elephant dung

The Guardian - UK

‘What a Tory exhibition this is’ – the RA’s climate crisis Summer Exhibition

Wilting flowers, soppy woodlands, a porcelain model of a disposable cup … this climate kitsch is about as concerned about the environment as Boris and Carrie Johnson

The Independent UK

Lester Piggott: The taciturn racing colossus with an iron will to win

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The Guardian - UK

Let’s be honest - faiths divide us. It can be hard to see the ties that bind

As Easter, Ramadan and Passover festivals converge, it was a week in which I got to test my convictions

The Guardian - UK

James Butler obituary

One of Britain’s leading figurative sculptors whose subjects ranged from Richard III to Jomo Kenyatta

Chronicle Live

North East artist raises funds for Ukraine with unusual Putin painting

Artist and lecturer Colin Cameron specialises in paintings of people picking their nose

The Guardian - UK

Russian billionaire on EU sanctions list quits as Royal Academy trustee

Exclusive: Petr Aven’s donation returned after he was called one of Putin’s closest oligarchs in the list

Evening Standard

Whistler’s Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan at the Royal Academy review - doesn’t really do anyone justice

The portrait around which this exhibition is based is a fine one, but it’s not enough to hold the whole show

The Guardian - UK

Whistler’s muse steals the spotlight and Pissarro gets together with friends – the week in art

The Royal Academy explores the birth of modernism, postwar British art shines and the ‘father of impressionism’ goes on display alongside his mates

Evening Standard

The Leader podcast: Why this Francis Bacon show’s been given a ‘trigger warning’

A new Francis Bacon exhibition at the Royal Academy in London is considered so extreme it’s been given a ‘trigger warning’.

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