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Our critic’s choices also include Parisian frenemies, an Italian photographer and American heavy-hitters
A new entrance has been integrated and internal spaces recovered in a £41mn refurb partly by architects Jamie Fobert and Purcell
From Henry VII to Hackney dustmen, Britain’s story is freshly told in impressive style
The co-creator of The Beatles’ artwork has had a rich and pioneering career
‘Portrait of Mai’, valued at £50mn, will be shared equally by two galleries in London and Los Angeles
The fight to save the iconic work reflects a painful truth about the UK’s financial state
Thwarted joint proposal to acquire ‘Portrait of Omai’ fuels debate around export of key British artworks
From Cecil Beaton’s coronation portrait via Warhol and Freud to a postcolonial image for the platinum jubilee, artists have shown humanity, politics and fantasy in that famous face
London gallery becomes the latest UK cultural institution to sever fossil fuel links
Other UK institutions to receive 300 of its portraits each year during £35.5m revamp
From Walter Raleigh to the Queen, anyone who was anyone in 16th-century England had their miniature portrait made
Innocent looking painting belies poet’s reputation as hell-raiser and womaniser
Turn-of-the-century paintings capture the mood of Tolstoy’s era, a time of rapid social change
A survey of British photography in the latter half of the 20th century fills the Victoria & Albert Museum with thought, talent and feeling
Haunch of Venison launches a special show on British postwar painting, ‘the most underexplored terrain of our national art’
The foreign affairs supremo talks about her high-profile role and how she copes with criticism
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