3 h. ago Unseen work by Lucian Freud to feature in National Portrait Gallery exhibition

Drawing into Painting will showcase previously unseen work by the British artist at the National Portrait Gallery next year.

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42 h. ago Women Photographers 1900 to 1975: A Legacy of Light – in pictures

The new National Gallery of Victoria exhibition honours the wide-ranging photographic practices of more than 80 female artists working between 1900 and 1975. Women Photographers 1900–1975: A Legacy of Light is open now until May 2026 Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Renaissance paintings and a gingerbread exhibition: photos of the day – Thursday

The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world Continue reading...

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2 w. ago The joyful world of Kaylene Whiskey: the Indigenous artist pulling Dolly Parton and Wonder Woman into the outback

Forget hushed, white-walled reverence: Whiskey’s new exhibition at Canberra’s National Portrait Gallery erupts in celebration. Expect big colour, big mischief, big joyGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailKaylene Whiskey’s sneakers are so silver they’re making the light dance. She’s wearing one of her signature jumpers and sparkly Christmas earrings. The gleefully bold Yankunytjatjara artist is ready for a party, and she’s brought that mood to the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) for the launch of Super Kaylene Whiskey. Forget hushed, white-walled reverence: this showcase exhibition erupts in celebration. Big colour, big mischief, big joy.It demands a soundtrack, and there is one: Cher, Abba, David Bowie, Boney M. And Dolly Parton, of course – always and forever Dolly. When she’s painting, Whiskey cranks up the music and works 9 to 5, Dolly-style. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago The Long Now at the Saatchi Gallery: '40 years of shock and awe'

The Saatchi Gallery is celebrating 40 years with this huge and frequently sensational exhibition where the past meets the future

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2 w. ago Sex, lies and pistachio shells: the disturbing dream worlds of artist Joseph Yaeger

The American takes strange film stills and turns them into monumental watercolours, full of Catholic guilt and paranoia – and it’s made him the most talked-about painter of the moment‘All paintings are in their own way accusations and confessions,” says Joseph Yaeger. “It’s what Polygrapher is about.” This is the title of the artist’s new exhibition, his first since joining the prestigious London gallery Modern Art in 2024, for whom it marks the opening of new premises in St James’s.Honesty is important to Yaeger, whose upbringing in the US in Helena, a town that he says ambitiously calls itself the capital of Montana, was as decent as it was unremarkable. “We’d sit down for dinner together every night, we’d go to church every Sunday, we’re polite almost to a fault, and traditional in almost all senses of the word.” Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Acclaimed artist launches first exhibition in a decade at Doune gallery

Senga Murray is widely considered as one of the leading sporting artists in a 40 year career and has now turned her attentions to showcasing some of her personal works.

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