Paula Rego ‘masterpiece’ may set record for artist at Sotheby’s auction
Meadow has top-end initial estimate of about £3m, as Rego’s work about gender and abortion finds new audiences
To see work by many black artists, go to the V&A
Letters: Rosemary Haworth-Booth on how she started acquiring works in the late 1980s, when other galleries failed to take an interest
Carnival dancers, stained glass and a haunted corner shop: a tour around Alvaro Barrington’s installation Grace
Observer New Review Q&A
Tate director Maria Balshaw: ‘I still come into work feeling terrified’
Donald Rodney: Visceral Canker; Alvaro Barrington: Grace review – skin in the game
May 2024
Notebook
Hardy as old hostas, Chelsea flower show fans lapse into a crazed kind of Britishness
Rachel Cooke
Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920 review – revelations and mystifying omissions
Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain review – this changes everything
Tate Britain acquires first painting by pioneering English female artist overlooked for a century
April 2024
Let’s tell the story of art without men
John Singer Sargent: Fashion & Swagger review – exploring the artist’s work in style
March 2024
On my radar
On my radar: Frank Tallis’s cultural highlights
Artist defends Tate Britain’s display of ‘undeniably racist’ Whistler mural
‘Inclusivity shouldn’t be controversial’: will a radical art rehang give Cambridge an unwanted ‘woke’ row?
John Miller obituary
Angelica Kauffman; Sargent and Fashion review – appearance is all
Museums Without Men: audio guides to celebrate dozens of female artists
February 2024
Brief letters
Jonathan Jones was right about the John Singer Sargent show at Tate Britain
Brief letters: Art criticism | Council funding | Cuckoo confusion | A cracking teacher | Dominic Raab’s career
My parents are much cooler than me – as I discovered this week
Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff
I spent much of my 20s working for a feminist magazine, but as a show at the Tate reminded me, my mum and auntie got there first, writes Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff
Throw off the cloak of snobbery and treat fashion as a serious art form
Letter: Cally Blackman takes issue with a ‘dismissive’ review of the John Singer Sargent exhibition at Tate Britain
