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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

The Guardian - UK

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition review – flashes of brilliance amid the anodyne jumble sale

From lemons to cats to the inevitable stripper, there is much that is silly and mediocre – then magnificent works by the likes of Gillian Wearing and Paula Rego catch your eye

The Guardian - UK

A case of heartbreak? I prescribe Tracey Emin’s neons and Paula Rego’s dancers

At moments when we need to start all over again, great art is there to salve our wounded feelings and help point the way to the future

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The best art and design shows to visit in 2023

Queer Renaissance sculptor Donatello, Marina Abramović, David Hockney and a long-delayed mega-museum in Manchester – your art-design to-do list for the year ahead

The Guardian - UK

Paula Rego remembered by Lila Nunes

The Portuguese-British artist’s assistant and muse remembers her wonderful sense of humour and their daily ritual of coffee, chat and opera

The Guardian - UK

Letter: Dame Paula Rego obituary

Bruce Ross-Smith writes: Anthony Rudolf dedicated his Collected Poems to the artist, who was his companion

The Guardian - UK

Letter: Dame Paula Rego obituary

Michael Rowan-Robinson writes: In her studio the impression she gave was of seriousness and mastery

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The vital importance of humour in Paula Rego’s art

Letters: Giles Oakley on his very personal interpretation of Rego’s painting The Family, and Gillian Forrester on the dark, complex and disquieting humour in the artist’s work

The Guardian - UK

Paula Rego, an appreciation: ‘She painted to find out what she felt’

In person and in her imaginative work, the artist was a fierce, mischievous presence, championing women’s lives

The Guardian - UK

Paula Rego: Artist who used her work to explore being a woman

The British-Portuguese painter sought to challenge the structures of power and authority that affect women’s lives

The Independent UK

‘Indefatigable, curious, 100% original’: female artists on Paula Rego

Her paintings frightened Lubaina Himid; she gave an indelible tutorial to Tacita Dean; and she changed Caroline Walker’s view of the world. Great women artists remember Rego, who died this week

The Guardian - UK

Paula Rego: why the Portuguse artist's work remains relevant in the fight for abortion rights

The great feminist artist Paula Rego has died at the age of 87 after a short illness. An image-maker of enormous talent, her work has been variously described as disturbing, visceral, mysterious and surreal.

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Peter Blake gets Llareggub, the Boyle Family go fishing and Kent catches new stars – the week in art

The godfather of pop art illustrates Under Milk Wood, landmark avant gardists link up and it’s Biennale week in Whitstable – all in your weekly dispatch

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Digested week: marmalade sandwiches, cross princes and counting medals

The PR coup was Prince Louis’s boredom and the big question: how did so many senior royals come by so many medals?

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First Thing: Primetime January 6 congressional hearings to begin

Democrats hope movie-length episodes will ‘really blow the roof off the House’. Plus, the brutal impact of the Salvadoran government’s crackdown on gangs

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‘She could make anything part of a story’ – what Paula Rego chose to paint and why

However volatile her subject matter, her art never tells you what to feel, writes the Guardian’s art critic – although she could indulge in a kind of knockabout buffoonery

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‘These women are not victims’ – Paula Rego’s extraordinary Abortion series

The artist blazed into Portugal’s 1998 abortion referendum with powerful images of women in backstreet clinics. But there is no blood, no gore – just feeling. The works may have helped swing a later vote

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Thursday briefing: Johnson is promising a revolution in home ownership. Will it work?

In today’s newsletter: To win over a split party, the prime minister says he will expand right to buy – Thatcher’s hallmark if controversial housing policy – even though it’s almost certainly a bad idea

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‘She is dancing among the greats’: the dangerously honest, richly ambiguous Paula Rego

Art’s great storyteller has died at the age of 87. Our critic celebrates a woman of courage and freakish imagination

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Dame Paula Rego obituary

Painter whose powerful images of women disrupted the male gaze

The Independent UK

Renowned Portuguese-British artist Paula Rego dies at 87

Portuguese-British artist Paula Rego, who created bold, visceral works inspired by fairy tales and her own life, has died at the age of 87

The Guardian - UK

Artist Paula Rego, known for her visceral and unsettling work, dies aged 87

Celebrated Portuguese-born British artist died peacefully after short illness, says Victoria Miro gallery

The Independent UK

Artist Dame Paula Rego dies aged 87

Among her most prominent works was the Dog Woman series.

Reuters

Paula Rego, ground-breaking artist who championed women's rights, dead at 87

Portuguese artist Paula Rego, who challenged gender stereotypes and denounced abuses of power in often visceral paintings infused with sombre fantasies and magic realism, died in London on Wednesday at the age of 87 after a short illness.

The Independent UK

Dame Paula Rego: Portuguese-British visual artist dies, aged 87

Rego is considered one of the most prolific artists of her time

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