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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The decline and fall of the samurai
There was more to the warriors than a readiness to die for honour
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Why don’t we write love letters any more?
A new exhibition at the National Archives in Kew shows the romance of writing your feelings down
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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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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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Jenny Saville’s human landscapes
The British artist has built a career bringing a new perspective to figures and flesh.
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David Hockney writ large
A huge retrospective gives the authorised version of this prolific artist’s career.
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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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The best art exhibitions to see in 2025
From 14th-century Siena to female modernists, the year’s most exciting exhibitions chart an evolving Western tradition.
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The Renaissance in drawing
Two exhibitions reveal how, for the great Renaissance artists, drawing was both a tool for making paintings and a form…
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Hollywood voyeurism at the Marilyn Monroe exhibition
A collection of the star’s possessions tries to make celebrity worship a feminist pursuit.
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Van Gogh in the yellow house
The artist moved to Arles in 1888 full of optimism. The National Gallery’s major new exhibition, “Poets and Lovers”, selects…
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The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition: decorous, polite, all too safe
The artists at this year’s inoffensive show have very little to say.
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Race across the landscape
In “Soulscapes”, contemporary artists of the African diaspora depict the lands that shaped them.
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Yoko Ono’s seriously playful art
Her Tate Modern retrospective delights me with its mixture of silliness and profundity.
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Frank Auerbach’s unsettling charcoal heads
These portraits have a haunted quality, the spectres of all the deleted images that went before.
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The art exhibitions to see in 2024
The most intriguing shows of the year, from the National Gallery at 200 to purple landscapes and charcoal heads.
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Philip Guston’s American monsters
His 1960s paintings of Ku Klux Klansmen confront the banality of evil – and retain their power to shock.
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Marina Abramović’s catalogue of self-harm
The stock-in-trade of the 76-year-old’s long career is endurance mixed with pain: something she demands of her audience, too.
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Frans Hals and the will to life
Where Rembrandt painted introspection, the Haarlem portraitist showed people as social creatures.
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