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<p>As a student, Lucy Jones, who has cerebral palsy, initially struggled with the intense scrutiny required for self-portraiture</p>

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Artist Lucy Jones: ‘I use the portrait to look out at you’

The painter, who has overcome cerebral palsy, dyslexia and depression to create a fabulously witty, colourful body of work, talks to Jasper Rees about poking people in the ribs, painting her own backside, and why her self-portraits felt ‘like coming out’

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<p>'The Crows (Die Krähen)' by Anselm Kiefer (2019)</p>

Anselm Kiefer takes on Van Gogh, with results both heroic and absurd

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<p>‘Reverse’ 2002-2003 by Jenny Saville</p>

YBA Jenny Saville paints flesh at its most excessive and brutalised

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<p>Edward Burra: ‘The Band’, 1934</p>

How two queer artists responded to the mundanity of inter-war England

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<p>David Hockney: ‘Play Within a Play Within a Play and Me with a Cigarette’ (2024-2025). Acrylic and collage on canvas</p>

This may be the most monumental David Hockney show any of us will see

‘David Hockney 25’ is imbued with the same sense of freedom and play that defines the British artist’s earliest works

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This may be the most monumental David Hockney show any of us will see

‘David Hockney 25’ is imbued with the same sense of freedom and play that defines the British artist’s earliest works

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<p>David Hockney: ‘Play Within a Play Within a Play and Me with a Cigarette’ (2024-2025). Acrylic and collage on canvas</p>

<p>Grayson Perry: ‘My job is to trust my intuition and often it’s in your gut and in your body and in your emotions’</p>

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Grayson Perry: ‘Of course I love the super-rich – they buy my work!’

<p>David Hockney, Self Portrait, 2021</p>

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David Hockney at 87: ‘I will never stop painting’

<p>In ‘Hisser’ (2015), a ‘customised stock figure from the online marketplace Turbosquid’ stands in for artist Ed Atkins</p>

Ed Atkins is the most interesting artist working in Britain today

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<p>Everyone’s favourite emotionally empowered Essex man poses beside ‘Heaven’s Gate’</p>

Art and artifice clash in Grayson Perry’s laugh-out-loud exhibition

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<p>Everyone’s favourite emotionally empowered Essex man poses beside ‘Heaven’s Gate’</p>

Art and artifice clash in Grayson Perry’s laugh-out-loud exhibition

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<p>Foraging for the future: If much of his imagery feels rooted in the early 19th century Romantic era in which Victor Hugo grew up, the treatment often looks forward to late 19th century symbolism and even 20th century surrealism</p>

Victor Hugo’s RA exhibit unveils the surreal world of a literary giant

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<p>‘Self-Portrait’ (1882-83) by Edvard Munch, on display in his new National Portrait Gallery exhibition</p>

The world knows Edvard Munch’s work. A new exhibit reveals his demons

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<p>Duccio’s ‘Triptych: Crucifixion and other Scenes’, circa 1302-08</p>

At National Gallery, Siena is a golden journey into late medieval art

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<p>Leigh Bowery Session 1 Look 21 by Fergus Greer</p>

Was Leigh Bowery one of the most original artists of the 20th century?

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<p>Kylie Minogue photographed by Norbert Schoerner in June 1994, as featured in the National Portrait Gallery’s The Face: Culture Shift</p>

How The Face magazine turned style into an art form

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