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To mark the artist’s 300th birthday, a free exhibition showcases the grandeur yet playfulness of his oeuvre
From Henry VII to Hackney dustmen, Britain’s story is freshly told in impressive style
The fight to save the iconic work reflects a painful truth about the UK’s financial state
They have confidence in their own taste and judgment in fields beyond the brand names
Courtauld Institute to recreate the Great Room, the oldest space for public exhibitions in the city
Attitudes to British art are changing, with classic works displayed — and sold — next to contemporary favourites
Night after night, the champagne flows as corporates vie for the glitziest party on the beach or, better still, on the yacht
Freud family portrait likely to net £18m
Loophole allowed landed estates to avoid capital gains tax if they put art on display to the public
Also Bridget Riley and Joshua Reynolds
This exhibition celebrates the seductive aura of the exotic
Executors win tribunal against HMRC
Contrasts and contradictions are what make the art world so fascinating. Sales of the season will reveal what we value
Johan Zoffany’s observations of Georgian high society have a richly ambivalent wit
William Blake counsels not despair but an unceasing ‘mental fight’ in harmonising social and economic goals
Vistas to and from public spaces are key to our understanding of a city
The portraitist fixed the hedonism of the Regency era in a style exuberantly evocative of today’s ‘X-Factor’ showiness
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