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‘I have taken risks, but Damien is a staggering risk-taker’: Michael Craig-Martin on style, the YBAs and being the great late bloomer of British art

Ahead of a major retrospective at the Royal Academy, the veteran artist and mentor to Hirst, Lucas et al talks about his nomadic early years, halcyon days at Goldsmiths – and the moment he stopped being ‘frightened’ of colour

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Frederic Leighton’s only known painting of moon over water to go on show after being lost for a century

Painter’s Bay of Cadiz, Moonlight, bought by Leighton House Museum in June, will star in November exhibition

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In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s review – a small yet blazing act of solidarity

Rescued from bombarded Kyiv in 2022, wildly dynamic works born out of war, revolution and Stalin’s purges, by artists including Kazymyr Malevych and Sonia Delaunay, attest to Ukraine’s moving spirit of freedom then and now

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Love through the lens, a dynasty of Japanese printmaking and Leeds’s finest – the week in art

The Yoshida family’s remarkable legacy, Alison Wilding’s subtle and surprising sculptures and this year’s rather tired effort from the Royal Academy

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Inside the RA's Summer Exhibition opening party with Jennifer Saunders, Zadie Smith and Kristin Scott-Thomas

The Royal Academy had celebrities splashing their cash as the Summer Exhibition opened in style

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‘A show you want to pick up and fondle’: Assemble electrify the RA’s Summer Exhibition

The architecture room of the Royal Academy’s annual event has been turned into a mesmerising ‘museum of making’ by the Turner-prize winners, full of intriguing insights and mind-boggling exhibits

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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

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‘I don’t know if I like it’: artist finally shown at Royal Academy after 31 attempts

Alison Aye’s work will be seen alongside 481 other new exhibitors at the Summer Exhibition

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Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920 review – revelations and mystifying omissions

A Flemish ‘paintrix’ at the court of Elizabeth I, a magnificent mouth artist and a glamorous suffragette are finally given their due in a show tracing female artists’ rocky road to recognition. But the story too often takes precedence over the art

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Tate Britain's Now You See Us: 10 firsts of extraordinary women artists in Britain, abandoned by art history

This groundbreaking exhibition re-introduces 110 forgotten female professional artists. Here are 10 of the trailblazing women who paved the way for future generations of artists

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Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920 at Tate Britain review: strikingly powerful

This comprehensive show might be wide-ranging, but there are some real gems here

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Tate Britain acquires first painting by pioneering English female artist overlooked for a century

Gallery to display first Louise Jopling work acquired for nation as part of new exhibition exploring women artists in British history

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The Guardian view on the Royal Academy: reframing a bloody past

Editorial: The Royal Academy is examining the part it has played in Britain’s history of slavery and empire – and the usual carping suspects will not be pleased

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Why does Cleopatra always have to die nude? Male titillaters – and the artist who stood against them

From Medusa to Circe, novelists have scored hits with feminist reimaginings of Greek myths and historical figures. But Swiss-born painter Angelica Kauffman beat them to it – by 250 years

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Angelica Kauffman; Sargent and Fashion review – appearance is all

More defiant in life than in her smooth, theatrical art, one of the co-founders of the RA finally gets a show of her own. And gents and ladies dress to thrill for flashy, riveting John Singer Sargent

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Angelica Kauffman at the Royal Academy review: still exceptional, even if the sentimentality is a bit cloying

A founding member of the RA and hugely successful, the painter is very much of her time – but still deserves our respect

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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

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Abstracted women, a pop pioneer and a portal into hell – the week in art

A global survey of non-figurative female artists, a great Scottish innovator and an installation of angels and flies – all in your weekly dispatch

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Entangled Pasts 1768-Now review – RA all at sea with its risk-light colonial revisionism

From a pregnant woman tossed from a slave ship to reworkings of Titian and Da Vinci featuring black faces, this show aims to redress the RA’s biased version of art history – but it could all have been more daring

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Entangled Pasts, 1768 - Now at the Royal Academy review: a thoughtful reflection on art's colonial history

This complex, nuanced show reckons with the past of the Royal Academy itself

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On my radar: Marcelino Sambé’s cultural highlights

The Royal Ballet principal dancer on his favourite performance art, a surprising black comedy, and a musical that made him question everything

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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