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<p>A prized artist: English Romantic painter JMW Turner</p>
In Focus

How Turner’s imaginative leaps make him Britain’s greatest artist

It’s 250 years since the birth of this prodigious son of a barber and a wigmaker, but his weather-obsessed, sea-enamoured paintings have never been surpassed, says Mark Hudson

<p>David Hockney: ‘Play Within a Play Within a Play and Me with a Cigarette’ (2024-2025). Acrylic and collage on canvas</p>
Reviews

This may be the most monumental David Hockney show any of us will see

<p>In ‘Hisser’ (2015), a ‘customised stock figure from the online marketplace Turbosquid’ stands in for artist Ed Atkins</p>
Reviews

Ed Atkins is the most interesting artist working in Britain today

<p>David Hockney, Self Portrait, 2021</p>
Interview

David Hockney at 87: ‘I will never stop painting’

<p>Everyone’s favourite emotionally empowered Essex man poses beside ‘Heaven’s Gate’</p>
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Art and artifice clash in Grayson Perry’s laugh-out-loud exhibition

<p>Grayson Perry: ‘My job is to trust my intuition and often it’s in your gut and in your body and in your emotions’</p>
interview

Grayson Perry: ‘Of course I love the super-rich – they buy my work!’

<p>Foraging for the future: If much of his imagery feels rooted in the early 19th century Romantic era in which Victor Hugo grew up, the treatment often looks forward to late 19th century symbolism and even 20th century surrealism</p>
Reviews

Victor Hugo’s RA exhibit unveils the surreal world of a literary giant

<p>‘Self-Portrait’ (1882-83) by Edvard Munch, on display in his new National Portrait Gallery exhibition</p>
Reviews

The world knows Edvard Munch’s work. A new exhibit reveals his demons

<p>Duccio’s ‘Triptych: Crucifixion and other Scenes’, circa 1302-08</p>
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At National Gallery, Siena is a golden journey into late medieval art

<p>Leigh Bowery Session 1 Look 21 by Fergus Greer</p>
Reviews

Was Leigh Bowery one of the most original artists of the 20th century?

<p>Kylie Minogue photographed by Norbert Schoerner in June 1994, as featured in the National Portrait Gallery’s The Face: Culture Shift</p>
Reviews

How The Face magazine turned style into an art form

<p>Clowning around: Toulouse-Lautrec’s ‘The Clown Cha-U-Kao’ (1895), showing a faux-Chinese nightclub performer arm-in-arm with her girlfriend</p>
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This exhibition will reignite your love for Impressionism

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Tate director urges British art collectors to be more philanthropic

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Tate director urges British art collectors to be more philanthropic

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London’s oldest art fair celebrates 40th anniversary

<p>MF Husain</p>
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MF Husain work surfaces after 70 years and sells for historic $13.8m

<p>The Banksy portrait was exhibited in 2005, a year after Vettriano's original broke records in a Sotheby's sale</p>
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Banksy’s take on Vettriano painting sells for £4.3m

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Jack Vettriano, painter behind iconic The Singing Butler, found dead

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Jack Vettriano, painter behind iconic The Singing Butler, found dead

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New exhibition at British Museum to display rare Japanese prints

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Rubens masterpiece in National Gallery may not be ‘legitimate’

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