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Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism review – spot the standouts in lavish display of bafflingly weak art

Harking back to a wartime RA show, this mishmash of 20th-century Brazilian art, much of it in thrall to European modernism, ends exactly where it should begin…

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‘Abnormal art is the only good art’: how Flávio de Carvalho sparked a Brazilian revolution

He donned a skirt to shock his conservative countrymen – and got bundled into a police station for his own protection. As his work appears in the RA’s Brasil! Brasil! show, we celebrate a luminary of modernism

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‘A standout figure’: UK to mark JMW Turner’s 250th birthday with year of events

Museums and galleries announce festival of events and exhibitions to celebrate influential British artist

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Timothy Hyman obituary

Other lives: Artist whose paintings reflected his passion for London and a respected writer on Sienese and Indian art

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Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael review – bitchy Da Vinci conquers the army of gnarly nudes

The battle scenes at the centre of this somewhat academic exhibition ring with unforgettable violence – as Leonardo’s howling warrior prepares to sever an enemy’s hand

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Picture perfect: how to buy art at prices you can afford

Thanks to online galleries and affordable fairs, collecting art is no longer an exclusive club for the well-off

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Michael Craig-Martin review – sorry, but these lamps and filing cabinets just aren’t that interesting

His early conceptual work inspired the likes of Damien Hirst, but the RA has inexplicably focused on his cool and clinical representations of the ordinary stuff of modern life

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Michael Craig-Martin at the Royal Academy review: inescapably joyful

This career-spanning retrospective of the much-loved tutor to the YBAs combines playfulness with serious conceptual ideas

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‘I have taken risks, but Damien is a staggering risk-taker’: Michael Craig-Martin on style, the YBAs and being the great late bloomer of British art

Ahead of a major retrospective at the Royal Academy, the veteran artist and mentor to Hirst, Lucas et al talks about his nomadic early years, halcyon days at Goldsmiths – and the moment he stopped being ‘frightened’ of colour

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Frederic Leighton’s only known painting of moon over water to go on show after being lost for a century

Painter’s Bay of Cadiz, Moonlight, bought by Leighton House Museum in June, will star in November exhibition

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In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s review – a small yet blazing act of solidarity

Rescued from bombarded Kyiv in 2022, wildly dynamic works born out of war, revolution and Stalin’s purges, by artists including Kazymyr Malevych and Sonia Delaunay, attest to Ukraine’s moving spirit of freedom then and now

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Love through the lens, a dynasty of Japanese printmaking and Leeds’s finest – the week in art

The Yoshida family’s remarkable legacy, Alison Wilding’s subtle and surprising sculptures and this year’s rather tired effort from the Royal Academy

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Inside the RA's Summer Exhibition opening party with Jennifer Saunders, Zadie Smith and Kristin Scott-Thomas

The Royal Academy had celebrities splashing their cash as the Summer Exhibition opened in style

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‘A show you want to pick up and fondle’: Assemble electrify the RA’s Summer Exhibition

The architecture room of the Royal Academy’s annual event has been turned into a mesmerising ‘museum of making’ by the Turner-prize winners, full of intriguing insights and mind-boggling exhibits

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Royal Academy Summer Exhibition review – a gasping death-rattle of conservative mediocrity

Pampered pets, polite portraits and enough wan landscapes to fill a field – this show mirrors the numbed, aimless condition of Britain after 14 years of Tory misrule

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‘I don’t know if I like it’: artist finally shown at Royal Academy after 31 attempts

Alison Aye’s work will be seen alongside 481 other new exhibitors at the Summer Exhibition

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Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920 review – revelations and mystifying omissions

A Flemish ‘paintrix’ at the court of Elizabeth I, a magnificent mouth artist and a glamorous suffragette are finally given their due in a show tracing female artists’ rocky road to recognition. But the story too often takes precedence over the art

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Tate Britain's Now You See Us: 10 firsts of extraordinary women artists in Britain, abandoned by art history

This groundbreaking exhibition re-introduces 110 forgotten female professional artists. Here are 10 of the trailblazing women who paved the way for future generations of artists

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Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920 at Tate Britain review: strikingly powerful

This comprehensive show might be wide-ranging, but there are some real gems here

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Tate Britain acquires first painting by pioneering English female artist overlooked for a century

Gallery to display first Louise Jopling work acquired for nation as part of new exhibition exploring women artists in British history

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The Guardian view on the Royal Academy: reframing a bloody past

Editorial: The Royal Academy is examining the part it has played in Britain’s history of slavery and empire – and the usual carping suspects will not be pleased

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Why does Cleopatra always have to die nude? Male titillaters – and the artist who stood against them

From Medusa to Circe, novelists have scored hits with feminist reimaginings of Greek myths and historical figures. But Swiss-born painter Angelica Kauffman beat them to it – by 250 years

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Angelica Kauffman; Sargent and Fashion review – appearance is all

More defiant in life than in her smooth, theatrical art, one of the co-founders of the RA finally gets a show of her own. And gents and ladies dress to thrill for flashy, riveting John Singer Sargent

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Angelica Kauffman at the Royal Academy review: still exceptional, even if the sentimentality is a bit cloying

A founding member of the RA and hugely successful, the painter is very much of her time – but still deserves our respect

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