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Paula Rego at Tate Britain: an overlooked artist to rival Hockney and Bacon

    She is one of the most important artists working in Britain today — she’s brilliant, intense and a bit bonkers. Why is she so perversely overlooked?

    Waldemar Januszczak on how Covid and cancel culture have shaken the art world

      Our greatest museums and galleries have been tested like never before. Only one hasn’t put a foot wrong

      Orford Ness is a 5‑star location for the dystopian vision of Afterness by Artangel

        Artangel’s latest project whips up dystopian fears at an abandoned military base

        Gustave Moreau at Waddesdon Manor review — dark and decadent

          The symbolist artist runs riot in these illustrations of classic tales

          An ambitious exhibition of Nina Hamnett and Lisa Brice

            Charleston gives the overlooked artist Nina Hamnett the show she deserves

            Jean Dubuffet at the Barbican review — tackling art’s biggest brute

              Who’d have thought that the embarrassingly bad art of Jean Dubuffet could be the subject of an exceptional exhibition?

              $69 million for this digital artwork? Inside the crazy world of NFTs

                How did a digital image become the third most expensive artwork ever sold by a living artist? Waldermar Januszczak on the inexplicable rise of ‘non-fungible tokens’

                Matejko: Conversations with God at the National Gallery

                  Jan Matejko’s Copernicus was a picture intended to galvanise a nation

                  Waldemar Januszczak on David Hockney at the Royal Academy

                    The artist’s iPad landscapes seem designed to cheer up the nation

                    Eileen Agar was more than just a surrealist

                      This action-packed exhibition reveals another side to the British artist