David Hockney was a swirling, explosive star
The British artist has died aged 88
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Keir Starmer has a people problem
He seems to lack the basic social skills necessary for survival
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How the National Gallery changed my life
Also: a second referendum for Scotland, and Easter in Venice
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It’s hard being Tracey Emin
A major retrospective at the Tate Modern shows how the artist became the queen of the confessional – but is…
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Will we ever forget David Bowie?
A decade after his death, the star’s legend lives on, sustained by an endless search for the man behind the…
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The best exhibitions to see in 2026
A large contingent of female artists – including Tracey Emin and Frida Kahlo – takes to the walls alongside grand…
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We will never make peace with Bridget Jones
A new statue in Leicester Square has reanimated trouble about the heroine’s waistline
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Marina Abramović will live forever
Abramović now sells “longevity drops” and NFTs of her art – promising a performance that will never end
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Kerry James Marshall’s nuanced vision of black lives
The painter’s retrospective at the Royal Academy presents a sweeping challenge to Western art’s exclusion of African-American figures
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The right doesn’t get Banksy
The artist’s latest work delighted Elon Musk by painting the judiciary as the villain.
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Joining the dots of 20th-century art
“Radical Harmony” at the National Gallery reveals how super-patron Helene Kröller-Müller established pointillism and influenced a generation of painters.
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David Gentleman’s pensées for the novice artist
His advice is not highfalutin, but at least it is straightforward.
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How colour is created in the mind
The National Gallery’s multidisciplinary podcast Stories in Colour recounts world history through the story of pigment.
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The potter of porcelain mania
How the sculptor Johann Joachim Kändler made porcelain an object of desire across 18th-century Europe.
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The second birth of JMW Turner
This year marks the 250th anniversary of his birth, but it was a midlife encounter with two landscapes that created…
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What Russia can teach us
From Tolstoy to Shostakovich, Russian culture shaped Europe. We must not lose it.
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The Yoko Ono problem
As David Sheff’s new biography reveals, decades of suspicion aimed at the provocative artist, musician and widow have obscured her…
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Munch the social animal
The painter’s portraits reveal less a tortured loner than a man who thrived in company.
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Siena’s artistic revolution
In the 14th century, Duccio and others developed ways of painting that had never been seen before.
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