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The Guardian view on Turner and Constable: radical in different ways | Editorial

Capturing the changing landscapes of the 18th century, the rivals transformed British art. The climate emergency gives new urgency to their work

JMW Turner appears on £20 notes and gives his name to B…

Turner v Constable: Tate Britain exhibition invokes long history of artistic rivalries

From Michelangelo and Leonardo to Picasso and Matisse, bitter feuds have defined art. But are contemporary artists more collaborative than their renaissance predecessors?

“He has been here and fired a…

39 days ago

A Story of South Asian Art review – banging sculpture marred by dreary neighbours

Royal Academy, London
Mrinalini Mukherjee’s surreal spins on Indian folk and sacred art are powerfully fascinating, but they gain nothing from works shown with them here

As you enter the galleries you…

74 days ago

Simone Leigh’s ‘monumental’ Royal Academy show set for 2027

Exhibition by African American artist to focus on architecture, art under fascism and her own links to the UK

The Royal Academy will in 2027 host the first major UK exhibition by Simone Leigh, four ye…

4 months ago

5 months ago

Kiefer/Van Gogh review – Anselm puts the nightmare into Vincent’s sunflower visions

Royal Academy, London
The Dutch artist looks like a prophet of the Holocaust when viewed through the 80-year-old German painter’s dark lens in this startling show, which makes you see how Van Gogh mig…

7 months ago

Sunstruck by William Rayfet Hunter review – a Saltburn-style story of identity

A mixed-race musician is drawn into the unfamiliar milieu of an upper-class family in this plotty debut

The unnamed narrator of William Rayfet Hunter’s debut novel, a mixed-race aspiring musician from…

‘Music is never fixed in me’ … cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason on surviving a ‘volcano of racism’

A remark about Rule, Britannia! led to uproar but the star musician is concentrating on the joy and power of classical music. As his first book is published, he talks to Charlotte Higgins

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