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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

Evening Standard

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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

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Marina Abramovic: Fearless Performance Artist's Dangerous and Daring Retrospective

Immerse yourself in the daring world of Marina Abramovic, the fearless pioneer of performance art, as she pushes boundaries and challenges conventions in t...

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Impressionists on Paper: Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec review – a show full of surprises

From Monet’s pastel sunsets to a beautifully bleak Van Gogh landscape and Pissarro’s summer orchard, the RA gathers fragile, rarely seen works, many made at speed, out and about and up close

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Impressionists on Paper review – Van Gogh sets this rambling show on fire

Sterile sketches by Monet, Degas and Renoir make you grateful they mostly stuck to painting – but Toulouse-Lautrec and Van Gogh’s empathy and emotion steal the show

The Guardian - UK

Impressionists on Paper at the Royal Academy review: delight in these treasures – we may not see them again

This exhibition shows a different side to the ubiquitous Impressionists

Evening Standard

OPINION - Tracey Emin: I feel I smell like a public loo at a Fifties train station, but I'm loved

I came back from New York determined not to get the PEBs — for anyone not in the art world and unfamiliar with the term, PEB stands for Post Exhibition Blues.

Evening Standard

Impressionists on Paper at the Royal Academy will shed light (but not too bright) on a seismic shift in art

The museum's forthcoming exhibition is a chance to see fragile works that won't travel again for many years

Evening Standard

Restorers uncover demon in a 1789 painting – and reveal the decline of superstition in the Age of Reason

Recent news that restorers had uncovered the image of a Gothic-looking demon in a late work by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) seems fitting for these long, dark evenings. The sinister face hovers above the head of a dying clergyman in The Death of Cardinal Beaufort, painted in 1789.

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I loved the Marina Abramović show – but the most shocking moment came in the giftshop

The work of the grandmother of performance art is intense, moving and baffling. Nonetheless, I wasn’t prepared for the wares on sale, writes Adrian Chiles

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‘When is it too early to teach your kids about genocide?’ Inside the Imperial War Museum’s harrowing new galleries

From the Somme to Afghanistan and Iraq, 500 works capture a century of warfare at the museum’s new Blavatnik art, film and photography galleries. You could spend days in its screening rooms alone, says our writer

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Royal Academy Dorfman Award 2023 winner is Taller Gabriela Carrillo

The Royal Academy Dorfman Award 2023 has been announced, revealing Taller Gabriela Carrillo as its winner at a dedicated event in London this evening

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How we hired 2023 Nobel laureate Anne L'Huillier – and why we knew she was destined for greatness

Most of the atomic physics division at Lund University were assembled in a spacious room with a big screen to await the announcement of the 2023 Nobel laureates in physics from the Royal Academy of Sciences on October 3. Of course, the Nobel secrecy is perfect, but there was still…

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Intimacy with strangers: Marina Abramović puts the squeeze on

The artist’s Royal Academy retrospective revives her 1977 live work in which visitors pass through a naked couple in a doorway – and reveal something of themselves

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Marina Abramović’s shocking Rhythm 0 performance shows why we still cannot trust people in power

In 1974, Marina Abramović dared an audience to use chains, lipstick and knives on her body – and their willingness to abuse her revealed frightening truths about misogyny

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Marina Abramović review – the artist is strangely absent

Knives, arrows, guns, nakedness… the performance art pioneer’s blockbuster 50-year retrospective underlines her bravery, yet sells it short with off-key re-enactments by stand-ins

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Marina Abramović has broken a 255-year-old glass ceiling. Why did it take so long?

The Serbian performance artist is the first woman to have a solo show in the Royal Academy’s main galleries – a telling indictment of the hurdles faced by female artists today

The Guardian - UK

Marina Abramović’s RA retrospective is terrifying and vital

Show documents vast legacy of brave artist who has turned her life into a relentless performance

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Julia Heseltine obituary

Other lives: Artist who produced portraits of famous people as well as more personal works, many of which reflected her life in Suffolk

The Week

Spotlight on Reynolds review: a treasure trove of portraiture

Sir Joshua Reynolds “dominated the artistic life of England in his age”, said Melanie McDonagh in the Evening Standard. As the co-founder and first president of the Royal Academy, Reynolds (1723-1792) held immense power over the country’s art establishment, and was generally “revered” by his fellow painters. Constable, for one,…

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Herzog & de Meuron review – inscrutable show puts life before architecture

This fascinating if oblique showcase of the remarkable Swiss practice’s work explores the way buildings are made and inhabited, rather than the structures themselves

The Guardian - UK

Spotlight on Reynolds review – superficial portraits by a well-connected hack

One of his paintings recently sold for £50m – but William Blake was right when he said Reynolds ‘depressed art’, as this show demonstrates all too well

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