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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

Evening Standard

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

Evening Standard

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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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

Evening Standard

A colossal artistic joke – Flaming June at the Royal Academy review

A clever, titillating work offering easy visual thrills – Look at all that orange! Notice the nipple! – Frederic Leighton’s iconic painting is back in the UK while its Puerto Rico home undergoes repairs

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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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Abstracted women, a pop pioneer and a portal into hell – the week in art

A global survey of non-figurative female artists, a great Scottish innovator and an installation of angels and flies – all in your weekly dispatch

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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

Evening Standard

Entangled Pasts, 1768 - Now at the Royal Academy review: a thoughtful reflection on art's colonial history

This complex, nuanced show reckons with the past of the Royal Academy itself

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On my radar: Marcelino Sambé’s cultural highlights

The Royal Ballet principal dancer on his favourite performance art, a surprising black comedy, and a musical that made him question everything

The Guardian - UK

The Last Supper recast: artist Tavares Strachan on reimagining Da Vinci’s dinner guests

He replaced Christ with Haile Selassie and took Judas’s place himself. The Bahamian’s epic artistic revisions, from space to the Arctic, hit Britain in 2024 – and the Royals are in his sights

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Marina Abramovic: Fearless Performance Artist's Dangerous and Daring Retrospective

Immerse yourself in the daring world of Marina Abramovic, the fearless pioneer of performance art, as she pushes boundaries and challenges conventions in t...

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Impressionists on Paper: Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec review – a show full of surprises

From Monet’s pastel sunsets to a beautifully bleak Van Gogh landscape and Pissarro’s summer orchard, the RA gathers fragile, rarely seen works, many made at speed, out and about and up close

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Impressionists on Paper review – Van Gogh sets this rambling show on fire

Sterile sketches by Monet, Degas and Renoir make you grateful they mostly stuck to painting – but Toulouse-Lautrec and Van Gogh’s empathy and emotion steal the show

Evening Standard

Impressionists on Paper at the Royal Academy review: delight in these treasures – we may not see them again

This exhibition shows a different side to the ubiquitous Impressionists

Evening Standard

OPINION - Tracey Emin: I feel I smell like a public loo at a Fifties train station, but I'm loved

I came back from New York determined not to get the PEBs — for anyone not in the art world and unfamiliar with the term, PEB stands for Post Exhibition Blues.

Evening Standard

Impressionists on Paper at the Royal Academy will shed light (but not too bright) on a seismic shift in art

The museum's forthcoming exhibition is a chance to see fragile works that won't travel again for many years

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Restorers uncover demon in a 1789 painting – and reveal the decline of superstition in the Age of Reason

Recent news that restorers had uncovered the image of a Gothic-looking demon in a late work by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) seems fitting for these long, dark evenings. The sinister face hovers above the head of a dying clergyman in The Death of Cardinal Beaufort, painted in 1789.

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