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Royal Academy’s Spain and the Hispanic World – an expert in Spanish art reviews the exhibition

The Royal Academy’s first big show of 2023 is unusual. As well as presenting an impressive collection from Spain and the Hispanic world (around 150 items covering over 4,000 years, including paintings, sculptures, maps, books and manuscripts), it also tells the story of the collection’s source – the Hispanic Society.

The Conversation

Just Stop Oil activists who glued themselves to Da Vinci painting fined just £175 each

Caspar Hughes sprayed onto the wall 'no new oil' and then he and Simon Bramwell, Jessica Agar, Lucy Porter and Tristan Strange glued themselves to the frame of the painting in July last year

Daily Mirror

Just Stop Oil activists glued themselves to frame of £3.6m Last Supper painting, court hears

Five Just Stop Oil protestors charged with causing criminal damage at the Royal Academy of Arts are on trial at City of London Magistrates’ Court

Evening Standard

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Activists glued themselves to frame of £3.6m Last Supper painting, court hears

Five Just Stop Oil protestors charged with causing criminal damage at the Royal Academy of Arts are on trial at City of London Magistrates’ Court.

The Independent UK

Tracey Emin and Antony Gormley works on offer in Royal Academy’s Ukraine charity auction

Pieces by Tracey Emin and Antony Gormley are among the works being bid on

The Independent UK

Spain and the Hispanic World review – a New York treasure trove takes a trip

The pick of Manhattan’s Hispanic Society Museum & Library, including masterpieces by Goya, El Greco and Velázquez, have been loaned to the UK for an unmissable show

The Guardian - UK

Spain and the Hispanic World review – royals, chinchillas, bullfights and blood

A beautiful Velázquez, fascinating maps, glazed pottery from Muslim craftsmen … US collector Archer Huntington amassed stupendous works – but is there more to this show than the spoils of one man’s grand tour?

The Guardian - UK

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The best exhibitions in London this winter, from Chanel to Marina Abramović

It’s a fabulous season for art lovers...

Evening Standard

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

This obscure portrait gave me goosebumps – but I never expected a bidding war

My film about Audrey Amiss was done. Now I had a chance to own a piece of her work, says film-maker Carol Morley

The Guardian - UK

John Constable’s favourite Hampstead pond to be restored after two centuries

Branch Hill pond dried up in the 1880s. Now it will teem with wildlife again, as it did in the artist’s heyday

The Guardian - UK

Brueghel’s Cambridge carnival and modernism’s female pioneers – the week in art

Turner prize winner Elizabeth Price digs into Scottish industrial heritage, the Royal Academy heads back a century and Kettle’s Yard teams up with the Fitzwilliam – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

Making Modernism at the Royal Academy of Arts review: a revelatory look at four female artists

Four superb and rarely-seen talents are showcased in this fascinating show

Evening Standard

Two Turner paintings set to return to Britain for the first time in a century

The paintings from the mid 1820s will feature in a special exhibition at the National Gallery this winter.

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The Guardian - UK

First show in 100 years of disabled Victorian artist Sarah Biffin opens in London

Accomplished miniaturist and a household name in 19th century was born without arms and hands

The Guardian - UK

Fuseli and the Modern Woman review – a dark, perverse mindset laid bare

Absurdist updos, bulbous buttocks – the Swiss painter’s surrealist portrayals of women go into the weird recesses of the 18th-century gothic imagination

The Guardian - UK

William Kentridge review – never ceases to mesmerise

The spectres of oppression and its victims in his country and beyond are conjured by the South African artist William Kentridge in an epic show spanning 40 years

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Claes Bang’s cultural highlights

The Danish actor on a horror film from his homeland, the physical impact of Francis Bacon and his favourite London restaurant

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The Guardian - UK

Marina Abramović’s Gates and Portals review – why surrender your liberty to these wafer-thin ideas?

The artist is not present in her latest show. Instead, visitors are shuffled about by volunteers trained in her Method, with a hint of Blair Witch ritual

The Guardian - UK

William Kentridge review – the sound and the fury

Forty years of work whirl before us, the violence of apartheid, inequality and brutality underpinning it all, as Kentridge’s drawn images merge into animations, filmed performance and sculpture

The Independent UK

William Kentridge at Royal Academy review: Overstretched show doesn’t play to the artist’s strengths

A solo show in the RA’s Main Galleries is an honour – but one that doesn’t come without a degree of risk

Evening Standard

William Kentridge at the Royal Academy review: testament to a genuinely unique vision

This show teems with imagery and ideas from the start

Evening Standard

The best exhibitions to see in London in autumn 2022, from Lucian Freud to Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

How to get your art fix in the capital

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Joe Lycett befriends the UK’s most weird but wonderful artists

The comedian meets those who entered the Royal Academy’s annual public art show. Plus: the last and most poignant episode in the Rolling Stones series. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Fred Cuming obituary

Landscape artist and teacher who captured the beauty of England’s cloudy and rainy skies

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