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  • Edward Burra

    The Parisian scenes that Burra is known for are joyful and sardonic, but his work depicting the Spanish civil war and the destruction of his home environment stand out in this first retrospective of the artist in London in 40…

  • The 36th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts: The Oracle

    Surprising, thrilling, enchanting – under the artistic direction of Chus Martínez, the works in this biennale show a genuine heartfelt passion for the world in which we live

  • It’s Terrible the Things I Have to Do to Be Me: On Femininity and Fame – book review

    In a series of essays about pairs of famous women, the cultural critic Philippa Snow explores the connections between them and the distinction between person and persona

  • Paul Thek: Seized by Joy. Paintings 1965-1988

    A rare London show of an elusive queer pioneer captures a quieter side of his unpredictable practice

  • Anonymous Was a Woman

    This elegantly composed exhibition celebrates 25 years’ of awards to female artists by Anonymous Was a Woman and emphasises how creative practice has changed over time

  • European Realities

    The first of its kind, this vast show is a stunning tour of the realism movement of the 1920s and 30s, bringing together artists from across Europe

  • Maggi Hambling: ‘The sea is sort of inside me now … [and] it’s as if she has become a wave’

    Maggi Hambling’s new and highly personal installation, Time, in memory of her longtime partner, Tory Lawrence, opens the first arts and culture programme at Norfolk’s 18th-century Wolterton Hall as part of the exhibition Sea State

  • Caspar Heinemann: Sod All

    The artist takes us on a deep, dark emotional dive with his nihilistic installation that references obscure religious books, occultism, folk revivalism and sexual politics through a typical mixture of found and repurposed materials

  • Donald Locke: Resistant Forms

    Complex, multilayered paintings and sculptures reek of the dark histories of slavery and colonialism in the first major UK retrospective of the Guyanese British artist

  • Rachel Jones: Gated Canyons

    Shown in the context of the historic paintings of Dulwich Picture Gallery, Jones’s new paintings extend the iconography of the mouth in modern art