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Cartier, V&A: A spellbinding, once-in-a-lifetime display of old-world glamour
From a necklace containing 2,930 diamonds to a vanity case in the shape of a sarcophagus, this show is nothing less than a treasure trove
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That Marvellous Atmosphere, Stanley Spencer Gallery: Intoxicating mayhem in a quaint Berkshire village
Honing in on the artist’s last major work, this new show in Cookham, the place that nurtured and inspired him, is an offbeat delight
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Splash! A Century of Swimming and Style: From Pamela Anderson’s famous one-piece to Tom Daley’s tiny Speedos
This fun exhibition ping-pongs the viewer’s attention between an abundance of paraphernalia covering the expanse of modern swimming history
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Picasso, a monster? These women have something different to say
In Hidden Portraits, Sue Roe tries to offer a fresh picture of the artist and his six favourite women, with only mixed success
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Yayoi Kusama, Victoria Miro Gallery: a 95-year-old superstar dazzles
In her superb latest exhibition, featuring a new Mirrored Room, the Japanese ‘Princess of Polka Dots’ offers levity and humour
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Glenn Ligon: the Fitzwilliam is transformed – to revelatory effect
With an impressive nine-part neon sculpture, this exhibition is a defining example of how to bring new relevance to historic collections
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A guide to understanding art, in six easy steps
From El Greco to Picasso, Martin Gayford’s How Painting Happens offers us an encyclopedic journey through art history
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Six Lives, National Portrait Gallery: Henry VIII’s queens finally emerge as vigorous, nuanced characters
This exhibition celebrates the long-sidelined spouses and defies their conventional reduction to little more than a memorable rhyme
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‘It’s very personal’: Vivienne Westwood’s husband on auctioning her wardrobe
As Christie’s opens its auction of the late British designer’s pieces, her friends and family share the stories behind the lots
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Life with Lucian Freud: nude modelling, debauched dinner-parties and strawberry ice cream
Rose Boyt, daughter of the great painter, shows in her memoir Naked Portrait that she’s every bit as astute a reader of people as him
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Marc Quinn: Light into Life, Kew Gardens: an alfresco treasure-hunt of sculptural delights
The former YBA’s biggest solo exhibition to date takes the idea of garden sculpture into entertaining new territory
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Is your new home ‘a panpsychic machine of universal animation’?
Emanuele Coccia’s Philosophy of the Home, a meditation on the way we live, is intellectually engrossing, but veers too far into abstraction
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