Dealing death: Leonora Carrington, tarot cards and a very British surrealist obsession
A new book reveals the occult story behind 22 previously unknown paintings by one of Britain’s most fantastical 20th-century artists
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Museums need to focus on artistic quality, not Twitter-pleasing identity politics
The Cartoon Museum’s internal ‘audit’ is a predictable step – and not necessarily as thoughtful as it wants the public to think
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House owner pulls out of sale at eleventh hour after Banksy paints mural on his wall
The piece, entitled 'Aachoo!!', was discovered on the external wall of the semi-detached property on England's steepest street
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Tate Britain’s ‘racist’ mural is nothing of the sort – have we lost all sense of nuance?
Calls to cover up Rex Whistler's spectacular, puckish work – and paint its artist as a tub-thumping imperialist – are missing the point
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Did Joseph Wright of Derby value sentiment over science?
His paintings of experiments made him a pin-up for the Age of Reason, but in his day the artist was more famous for mawkish melancholia
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'Hunter S Thompson? He was rude as hell': Ralph Steadman's life in ink
Ralph Steadman on his 60-year struggle to reveal the true ridiculousness of the world, one cartoon at a time
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Why won’t the British Museum return the Benin Bronzes?
The Museum’s involvement in a huge project in Nigeria has only dragged it further into a fractious heritage debate
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History shows us the naked truth – British public art is always assailed by puritans
Maggi Hambling’s statue for Mary Wollstonecraft is sparking the same debates that engulfed the Duke of Wellington 200 years ago
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Maggi Hambling's career proves we Brits prefer colourful eccentrics to serious artists
Maggi Hambling has stirred up controversy with her latest sculpture – but that's nothing new for the larger-than-life artist
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Our public art is being dumbed down and made ugly by a ‘right-thinking’ elite
Art is supposed to be enduring, beautiful and interesting – but in 2020, genuine creativity is at risk of box-tickers everywhere
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Culture Fix: Jazz, by Henri Matisse
As part of our series of perfect lockdown pick-me-up, our critic celebrates a collection so bright the artist feared it might turn him blind
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‘The restrictions have been pretty disastrous’: what next for the great art galleries of the North?
Britain’s art galleries face the annihilation of their funding model. Has the Government consigned the Northern arts scene to doom?
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In painting her own childhood, Chantal Joffe has captured yours and mine, too
For thirty years, Chantal Joffe has been painting her own mother. The resulting series is so specific – and yet so universal
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Tracey Emin: My mother died of the same cancer
The artist opens up about her life-threatening cancer – and how she predicted the diagnosis with a painting
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Tracey Emin on her diagnosis: ‘My mother died of the same cancer but I didn’t think I’d have it’
The 57-year-old artist faced extensive surgery and the prospect of only having ‘till Christmas’
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Tracey Emin reveals she has been diagnosed with cancer
Artist had an operation in the summer and is now in remission after she discovered a tumour in her bladder
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Are the blue-chips down? How London’s art elite are coping with Covid
London is one of the world’s art capitals. But how do you sell ultra-expensive works when buyers can barely visit your gallery?
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‘Keep calm and carry on – or die’: did this cult art project inspire the Government’s Covid posters?
‘Scarfolk’ is a nightmarish English town trapped in a paranormal Seventies. Some cabinet ministers seem to be taking it seriously
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Imogen Cunningham: ‘I’m the most neglected photographer of my time’
In a lifetime behind the lens, single mother Imogen Cunningham gave Ansel Adams a run for his money – and a piece of her mind
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From JMW Turner to Duncan Grant: the secret networks that hid 'obscene' work from censors
Many of our most famous artists and writers produced erotic material that was kept hidden for decades
