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Mysterious portraits of fictitious people, the roots of colonialism and the works of Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon and friends – all in your weekly dispatch

Anna Morell used the accessible route to view the Queen lying in state and, while it was well organised, still came across issues for those with a disability wanting to pay their respects

Exclusive: Politician went on to wine and dine women at Parliament before inviting them home ‘for a nightcap’, according to a book written by Andrew Mitchell

This week marks 125 years since the first Tate gallery — Tate Britain (known initially as The National Gallery of British Art) — opened on the marshy foundations of what had once been the largest prison in Europe. The then Chancellor of the Exchequer declared “a new palace of art…

Want to have a fun day out but also save those pennies? These free London art exhibitions are the perfect solution

The artist transforms things unnoticed, or barely there, into a poetry of objects in this superbly curated retrospective

This fabulous survey of her 40-year career has everything from soiled hankies to exploding sheds, as well as a vampire-like Margaret Thatcher – confirming Parker’s genius for finding poetry in the world around us

The British artist’s long-overdue retrospective is a triumph

Cornelia Parker is crushing it at the Tate, the artist better known as Vic Reeves exhibits his moving bird paintings, and Jake and Dinos Chapman split up

She is a politically charged artist whose work can be literally explosive. Ahead of a huge show, Parker talks about ‘cartoon violence’, recreating a corridor in Parliament – and why she may apply for German citizenship

What impulse unites a collector of ceramic cats with someone who gathers broken records or sweet wrappers?