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Tavares Strachan, Hayward Gallery, review: monuments to black history that raise awkward questions
The Bahamian artist’s monuments to overlooked figures from black history are imaginative and thought-provoking, if a little reductive
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Brainstorms: A Great Gig in the Sky, Frameless: This ‘immersive art experience’ is a pointless gimmick
The show is billed as a study of the link between Pink Floyd’s music and visitors’ brainwaves – but it’s a glorified Instagram opportunity
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What is the point of summer pavilions?
This year’s Serpentine display has opened. But are pavilions simply expensive, over-engineered follies – or do they have deeper meaning?
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The visionary who gave dignity to the mentally ill
A new exhibition at Bethlem’s Museum of the Mind reveals how Charles Lutyens became the trailblazer for art therapy
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Kafka: Making of an Icon – a kaleidoscopic look at the man behind the image
This exhibition is serious, funny, and brilliant all at once – and brings us closer to the real Kafka than ever before
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Nan Goldin: Sisters, Saints, Sibyls: An uncomfortable, deeply moving work by the woman who took on the Sacklers
Here making its UK debut in a beautifully apt venue, Goldin’s immersive creation tells the story of her sister, who took her own life at 18
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Alvaro Barrington – Grace: Inventive art, overpowered by Tate Britain’s neo-classical pomp
Across its three sections, the 2024 Duveen commission holds a few pleasures – but the artistic vitality is largely squashed by the setting
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Julyan Wickham, architect who designed the much-imitated London restaurant Kensington Place – obituary
With its modernist glass frontage, it was the very opposite of the hushed restaurants that tried to be carpeted cathedrals
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Isabel Getty: ‘Some people bring a prejudice about meeting me. It’s just my family’
Studious and driven, the indie musician is determined to be defined by her art – not by the fortunes and misfortunes of her famous family
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Princess Diana: Accredited Access Exhibition: Fawning and insight-free, this is a show for tourists
This sloppy showcase – crammed into a dark subterranean space in St Katherine’s Dock – is a mess, but there is the occasional gem
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Why does Britain hate its architectural history?
The demolition of Bastion House and the old Museum of London is the latest part of the war against modernist buildings
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Tatler’s Princess of Wales portrait is intolerably bad
Tatler’s new cover image – an ‘exclusive’ painting by British-Zambian artist Hannah Uzor – shows no flicker of resemblance to its subject
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June Mendoza, portraitist who painted the Queen, Princess Diana and Margaret Thatcher – obituary
An even more formidable challenge was a 1987 panorama of the House of Commons in session, with every figure painstakingly realised
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Life with Lucian Freud: nude modelling, debauched dinner-parties and strawberry ice cream
Rose Boyt, daughter of the great painter, shows in her memoir Naked Portrait that she’s every bit as astute a reader of people as him
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How to be a ‘great’ architect – without ever building anything
From a giant strawberry in Trafalgar Square to a glittering pyramid in Northampton, why architects are retreating to a land of dreams
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Andrew Motion: My boarding school was brutal – birdwatching freed me from its misery
The former poet laureate on a life of avian encounters, from spotting ospreys in the Cairngorms to hearing grackles at home in Baltimore
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Degas’s dancers don’t just show ballet’s beauty – they reveal a sinister system of sexual exploitation
In the 19th century, Paris’s ballet world operated as a prepubescent prostitution ring – and its code of silence lives on
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Royal Portraits – a fine exhibition, awash with glamour and famous faces
The stunning first exhibition at the newly renamed King’s Gallery, takes the photographers as seriously as their high-born sitters
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Lucian Freud’s daughter on posing naked for him at 19: ‘I was shocked when I saw the canvas’
In an exclusive extract from her new memoir, Rose Boyt recalls how sitting for a portrait by her father laid bare their complex relationship
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Fragile Beauty, V&A, review: Frisky men and ‘beautiful’ 9/11 images – Elton John’s photo collection is wild
With more than 300 prints on display, this show can feel unwieldy – but their sheer quality makes it worth a visit
