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John Constable’s favourite Hampstead pond to be restored after two centuries

Branch Hill pond dried up in the 1880s. Now it will teem with wildlife again, as it did in the artist’s heyday

The Guardian - UK

Brueghel’s Cambridge carnival and modernism’s female pioneers – the week in art

Turner prize winner Elizabeth Price digs into Scottish industrial heritage, the Royal Academy heads back a century and Kettle’s Yard teams up with the Fitzwilliam – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

Making Modernism at the Royal Academy of Arts review: a revelatory look at four female artists

Four superb and rarely-seen talents are showcased in this fascinating show

Evening Standard

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Two Turner paintings set to return to Britain for the first time in a century

The paintings from the mid 1820s will feature in a special exhibition at the National Gallery this winter.

The Independent UK

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

The Independent UK

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

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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 Independent 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 Guardian - 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

‘The Long Fellow’ partnered more than 5,000 winners worldwide

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

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North East artist raises funds for Ukraine with unusual Putin painting

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

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