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  • MC Escher, Bond of Union, 1956.

    Mind-melting MC Escher, mesmerising Marilyn and the greatness of Glasgow – the week in art

    Escher’s eye-popping visions enter the video dimension, Pan-Africanism pulls in the big names and agent provocateur Julio Le Parc hits the UK
  • A landscape painting shows green fields with a sandy path, dark trees, and pale sky

    Green and pleasant views, digital dreams and a White Stripe sculpts – the week in art

    British landscape painting from Gainsborough to Hepworth, Wendy McMurdo’s uncanny portraits and Jack White’s debut exhibition – all in your weekly dispatch
  • A black cannon on a wooden mount sits on a sandy beach at Walmer with people in the water and cloudy sky beyond. A painting by Sir Winston Churchill, The Beach at Walmer, 1938.

    Lo-fi sci-fi, hollow metal people and Churchill’s big guns – the week in art

    First major retrospective for the wartime PM’s paintings, shadows of Berlin Dada, hopeful science and the outrageous art of Valie Export
  • James McNeill Whistler, Coast of Brittany (Alone with the Tide), 1861. Wadsworth Museum of Art. In memory of William Arnold Healy, given by his daughter, Susie Healy Camp

    Queer eyes in focus, sculpture hits pay dirt and Whistler’s world – the week in art

    Hockney and more explore gender in Liverpool, Delcy Morelos makes mud spectacular and Whistler’s Mother goes on tour – all in your weekly dispatch
  • Cliff Rowe, Three Women Talking, post war. © Cliff Rowe
Estate. Courtesy of the People's History Museum

    Artists v fascists, Khmer Rouge horrors, fab flowers and an eye-popping nude – the week in art

    The 1930s artists, poets and intellectuals who united to defend Europe, memories of Cambodia, blooming marvellous painters and a beautiful reclining nude
  • Hercules and the Cretan Bull by Francisco de Zurbarán.

    A mind-bending Spaniard, an imagistic Puerto Rican and a lush Latvian – the week in art

    A revelatory Zurbarán show proves him the equal of Goya and Picasso, Angel Otero takes up a Somerset residency and Daiga Grantina brings nature to abstraction – all in your weekly dispatch
  • Paintings of two green bear-like characters are shown hanging on a gallery wall.

    Shreg the green ogre, a grey obsessive and Vermeer’s boiled egg – the week in art

    Bruce Asbestos unleashes a mischievous monster, Alan Charlton shows off 50 years of monochrome mastery and Lady With a Guitar gets a fresh perspective
  • Doron Langberg's painting Hibiscus 1

    Petal passion, super-surreal Polaroids and Billy Childish’s California – the week in art

    Expertly curated flower paintings, the garage-rock star’s hazy expressionism and a masterpiece from a Morrisons receipt – all in your weekly dispatch
  • A pole with a gas flare burning beside it, as if the flare were a flag waving on a flag pole

    Filthy fossil fuels, a dizzying debut and the ominous side of the moon – the week in art

    Digital wizard John Gerrard on the energy industry, Michaela Yearwood-Dan’s first UK museum exhibition and an foreboding view from Artemis II
  • Wilhelm Sasnal: Untitled 2025

    Megamurals, Guerrilla Girls and something rotten in the Oval Office – the week in art

    Poland’s leading figurative artist de-faces Trump, a young Irish-Japanese painter tricks London’s perceptions and the UK’s street art is captured – all in your weekly dispatch
  • Cecily Brown's oil painting 'Couple' depicting two embracing figures in a garden setting

    Nature by the uncool YBA, armoured ceramics and dizzying Aussie abstraction – the week in art

    Cecily Brown blooms into life, Ashanti folklore is remade and three Indigenous Australians spill their ancient knowledge – all in your weekly dispatch
  • A painting of a woman in a purple dress standing against a red background.

    Estonia exports a modernist, Glasgow gets poetic and Leonora Carrington goes wild – the week in art

    Konrad Mägi is given his time to shine, Fiona Banner hits a word-picture high and Carrington takes over the home of Sigmund Freud
  • Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema (1836 – 1912) Orchids , 1879 Oil on panel, 40 x 49.5 cm

    Abstract erotica, Japanese giants face off and spring arrives in Oxford – the week in art

    Alexis Ralaivao’s provocative paintings, Hiroshige and Hokusai in perspective and a grand survey of flowers in fine art – all in your weekly dispatch
  • George Stubbs: Portrait of a Horse

    Hockney scrolls through Bayeux, Brideshead gets revisited and Stubbs leads the field – the week in art

    A spectacular record of a year in Normandy, the photogenic buildings of Sir John Vanbrugh and extraordinary paintings of horses
  • "Tracey Emin: A Second Life" at Tate Modern, in LondonTracey Emin poses for a portrait in front of her installation "Its Not me Thats Crying its my Soul" during a photocall for her exhibition "Tracey Emin: A Second Life" at Tate Modern, in London, Britain, February 23, 2026. REUTERS/Maja Smiejkowska

    Tracey Emin’s lust for life, gaudy Egyptian treasure and Don McCullin at 90 – the week in art

    Emin reminds us of the deep power of art, Ramses II parades his megalomaniac gold and Rose Wylie’s witty paintings finally get their due
  • Detail of Beatriz González’s Backdrop of a Moving and Changing Nature, 1978.

    Glory for Gaudí, poems for Doig and a giant show for Beatriz González – the week in art

    Catalonia’s most celebrated son kicks off his centenary in style, Derek Walcott energises his friend Doig and the Colombian great gets her first UK retrospective
  • Georges Seurat’s The Channel at Gravelines, Petit-Fort Philippe, 1890.

    Spooky shores, folkloric visions and Ireland’s mysterious landscapes reveal a secret – the week in art

    Georges Seurat takes an eerie trip to the seaside, Yinka Shonibare puts empire in its place and Sean Scully reveals his source
  • A blond girl is shown leaning her head in her hand while lying in bed.

    Go deep into Freud, follow Gwen John home and watch Giacometti melt – the week in art

    The master portraitist’s process is spelled out, Cardiff celebrates the great Gwen, Lynda Benglis eyes up Giacometti and Scottish art schools wind back the clock
  • A black and gold suit of armour that features in the British Museum’s show Samurai.

    Samurai erotica, a metal-and-flesh sculptor and Jenny Holzer’s big glow-up – the week in art

    The secret side of Japan’s warrior class, Holzer lights up Scunthorpe, Julia Phillips steels herself and Quentin Blake takes off in Dorset – all in your weekly dispatch
  • When Sweet and Bitter Mingled Together (EE) by Jessica Rankin.

    Seductive stitches, Warhol in Nottingham and an Italian giant’s igloo sculpture – the week in art

    Jessica Rankin sews up painting, arte povera’s Mario Merz comes in from the cold and Andy Warhol brings pop to the Midlands
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