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Cologne Cathedral’s plans to charge for tickets spark outcry

Limiting access to German church to well-off visitors would be ‘socially unjust’, critics say

The Guardian - UK

The best art and photography of 2025 – from eye-boggling Bridget Riley to the Face’s riotous fashion

Jenny Saville’s bruising paintings, Andy Goldsworthy’s immersive stones, Lee Miller’s surrealist shots and Diane Arbus’s unforgiving nudes – our critics highlight a spectacular year

The Guardian - UK

Culture Digest: The best things to do, hear, see or watch in Europe this week

A retrospective for the world's 'greatest living artist'; Timothée Chalamet's star turn as a success obsessed table tennis player; volume 2 of Strange Things season 5 - and our best songs of the year! Here's ho-ho-how to spend the festive week.

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‘Made my hair fly up’: the electrifying genius of Paris’s Gerhard Richter extravaganza – review

He has painted everything from a candle to 9/11, walked his naked wife through photographic mist, and turned Titian into a sacred jumble. This thrilling show, boasting 270 works, reveals the German in all his contradictory brilliance

The Guardian - UK

A new coffee-table book shows one thing: celebrity artists should not be allowed near Auschwitz

We won’t deepen our understanding of the Holocaust with vanity projects like Juergen Teller’s misguided new work, says author Agata Pyzik

The Guardian - UK

Best abstract art: originals and prints to heighten your home

Gestural pieces that offer an escape from reality

Evening Standard

CBSO/Yamada review – Anna Clyne’s Atlas is a brilliantly coloured musical scrapbook

This piano concerto co-commissioned by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra is one of quicksilver changes of mood conveyed brilliantly by Jeremy Denk

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Gerhard Richter unveils new sculpture at Serpentine South

Gerhard Richter revisits themes of pattern and repetition in ‘Strip-Tower’ at London’s Serpentine South

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Gerhard Richter review – ‘so disorientating I almost fell over’

Colours fuse and split, curdle, judder and smear in the elusive work of a nonagenarian artist still out to surprise

The Guardian - UK

Roman Abramovich amassed one of the world’s most impressive private stores of modern art

The Guardian’s art critic examines the collection amassed by the oligarch and his ex-wife Dasha Zhukova, which includes Freuds, Picassos and Russian modernism

The Guardian - UK

Chris Ofili: Requiem review – Grenfell Tower as a burning cage in an ocean of despair

The artist’s dramatic site-specific work, partly a memorial to artist Khadija Saye, who died in the fire, is like a transition between life and death or grief and acceptance

The Guardian - UK

Capturing The Moment review: a painting and photography journey

There is “a lot going on” in Tate Modern’s new exhibition, said Laura Freeman in The Times. Subtitled “A journey through painting and photography”, the show is a huge and ambitious attempt to explore the relationship between painting and photography from the early 20th century to the present day, examining…

The Week

Capturing the Moment review – not a serious exhibition

You can’t move for masterpieces – most of them owned by the Taiwanese collector Pierre Chen – but this supposed journey through painting and photography is rambling and at times comically simplistic

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Reich/Richter; St John Passion – review

The grand 2019 collaboration between Steve Reich and Gerhard Richter faced stiff competition from an Anna Clyne miniature

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London Sinfonietta/Kamps review – intricacies of Reich/Richter fascinate and overwhelm

The Sinfonietta performed Reich’s ensemble piece as it was originally intended – with Richter’s abstract film projected behind it

The Independent UK

Berlin museum presents 100 works by artist Gerhard Richter

A new show of works by one of Germany’s most famous living artists, Gerhard Richter, has opened at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie museum

Evening Standard

No Vermeer, no problem — 9 fabulous European art escapes

Didn’t snag tickets to Amsterdam’s sold-out Vermeer exhibition? No stress — get your arty fix at other top-tier European galleries instead

The Guardian - UK

Haunted Realism review – a queasy, intoxicating view of late capitalism

Rachel Whiteread, Gerhard Richter, Jenny Saville and co explore the age of ‘lost futures’ in a group show that works best unimpeded by theory

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Steve Reich: Reich/Richter review – intricate riffs on the rhythms of painter’s abstract film

The patterns of a work by Gerhard Richter inspire one of Reich’s most impressive recent pieces, elegantly performed in 2020

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Warhol Monroe Portrait Set to Smash Records at New York Sales

An Andy Warhol portrait of Marilyn Monroe worth an estimated $200 million headlines this month's spring sales in New York that collectors say are among the most anticipated ever. Christie's expects Warhol's 1964 "Shot Sage Blue Marilyn" to become the priciest 20th century artwork when the auction house puts it…

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