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‘This just hasn’t been done before’: art by 40 Black women hits Liverpool

The Walker gallery only had two artworks by Black women out of a 13,000-strong collection. A new exhibition marks the beginning of an attempt to redress the balance

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London Frieze 2024: Our picks of what to see from London's rising stars to inflatable penguins

The renowned London art fair is back once more: from Rose Wylie to Jeremy Deller, here’s our pick of what’s on

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‘I love the dog, the sandals, everything!’: eight artists on their favourite paintings in the National Gallery

As the National Gallery in London turns 200, we ask celebrated artists to pick the artwork from the collection that means most to them

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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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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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Lubaina Himid sews up Bath and 50 London galleries weave together – the week in art

The Turner prize-winner reconstructs the literal threads of colonial history, and a collaborative exhibition extends over 23 spaces across the capital – all in your weekly dispatch

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‘We’re artists, not boxes to be ticked’: Lubaina Himid on her call to arms – and exposing Bath’s past

The Turner prize-winner has filled a museum with billowing reams of fabric – to reveal the shameful pasts of the gentry immortalised in its paintings. As the rebellious artist nears 70, she lets rip at what held her back

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‘I was told my work wasn’t Black enough’: Joy Gregory on becoming hot property at last

She once struggled for recognition. But now – with a floral tube map, a top award and a Heathrow underground commission involving asylum seekers – the British-Jamaican artist is finally getting her dues

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Ch-ch-ch-changes! The artists who prove it’s never too late to try something new

At the outset of 2024, take inspiration from the women who pioneered collage, invented a new language or returned to their greatest passion, all in later life

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‘Women in Revolt!’ at Tate Britain is a deliciously angry tour de force of feminist art

‘Women in Revolt!’ puts feminist art from 1970 – 1990 under the spotlight at Tate Britain

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‘I thought we’d stormed the citadel, but we hadn’t’: Claudette Johnson on blazing a trail for Black artists – and the joy of reigniting her career

As a retrospective of her work opens, the British artist talks about the 1980s BLK Art Group, being eclipsed by the YBAs and how her paintings have a new sense of empowerment

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Comedy sculpture, the RA rambles, and Liverpool lets rip – the week in art

Erwin Wurm’s quirky work brightens up the Yorkshire sculpture park, Liverpool’s Biennial kicks off, and it’s time for another messy Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy

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Grace Wales Bonner pays homage to black icons in Paris show

Frontrunner for Louis Vuitton job enlists Kendrick Lamar, Lubaina Himid and Jamaica football team for new collection

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Artists flock to Brixton to mark 40th anniversary of UK black arts movement

More than 50 artists gather at Black Cultural Archives in London to have photograph taken

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‘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

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Artist Sonia Boyce: ‘Paintings are not born on walls’

The first black female artist to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale reflects on a career challenging the racial and sexual bias behind what art hangs in galleries – and around in our memories

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