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MP seduced tourists by posing as art expert at Tate Britain, claims ex-minister

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

The Independent UK · Sep 14, 2022

Happy birthday, Tate — an art space for everyone

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…

Evening Standard · Jul 21, 2022

The best free exhibitions in London right now – get your culture fix and keep your money for coffee

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

Evening Standard · May 27, 2022

‘I don’t want to be a little Englander’ – Cornelia Parker on BP, bombs and becoming a German

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

The Guardian - UK · May 10, 2022

Bringing order to the chaos of reality… Jarvis Cocker interviews six collectors

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

The Guardian - UK · May 8, 2022

Jack the Ripper and the paper-thin case against Walter Sickert

Letters: Simon Casimir Wilson says there is no connection between the killer and the artist, while Dr Anette Magnussen feels uneasy about Tate Britain’s exhibition

The Guardian - UK · May 2, 2022

Walter Sickert review – a master of menace

Rented rooms, sickly streets and gaslit pubs... this superbly curated show explores a British artist who specialised in suppressed malevolence

The Guardian - UK · May 1, 2022

‘They are totally smashing it!’ Bernardine Evaristo on the artistic triumph of older Black women

Artists, novelists, actors, poets: from the Venice Biennale to Bridgerton, Black women in their 50s and 60s are finally getting the recognition they deserve, says the pioneering Booker winner

The Guardian - UK · Apr 28, 2022

Walter Sickert review – serial killer, fantasist or self-hater? This hellish, brilliant show only leaves questions

The dead bodies of murdered women are served up as butcher’s meat in this survey of work by the Victorian painter who almost certainly claimed to the police to be Jack the Ripper

The Guardian - UK · Apr 26, 2022

Turner prize: Trafalgar Square whipped cream and fly sculpture among shortlist

Heather Phillipson, Ingrid Pollard, Veronica Ryan and Sin Wai Kin in running as prize returns to Liverpool

The Guardian - UK · Apr 12, 2022