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Tate Britain’s Lee Miller retrospective begins with a soft focus picture of her by New York photographer Arnold Genthe dated 1927, when she was working as a fashion model. The image is so hazy that she appears as dreamlike and insubstantial as a wraith.

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This must be the first time a black artist has been honoured with a retrospective that fills the main galleries of the Royal Academy. Celebrating…
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A rare cloud form envelopes the headland and to the east and the west Folkestone is cut off from the known world. This mist shortens the visual range…
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Brian Clarke died on 1 July 2025, after a long illness. He was one of the most original British artists of our time – wide-ranging, ground-…

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Pictures that are an affirmation of belonging
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Small scale intensity meets large scale melodrama
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A brilliant painter in search of a worthwhile subject
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Testing the boundaries of good taste, and winning
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Social satire with a nasty bite
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Emanations from the unconscious
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Mouths have never looked so good
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How to make millions out of kitsch
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The YBA who didn’t have time to become a household name
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City, mill and moor inspire the city's visual arts offering
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Living off grid might be the meaning of happiness
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Home sweet home preserved as exquisite replicas
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Emotions too raw to explore
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The ancient monument opens its first exhibition of new photography
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The shock of the glue: rhinestones to the ready
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An ominous shift has come with dark patches appearing on the Greenland ice sheet
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Illness as a drive to creativity
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A voice from the margins
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A great year for women artists
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Flashing lights, beeps and buzzes are diverting, but quickly pall
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Despite anticipating disaster, this mesmerising voyage is full of hope
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A variation of styles as the Bloomsbury artist breaks free from Victorian mores

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