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Rankin’s portrait of King Charles is a fascinating mixture of old and new
The portrait may seem unconventional – but it is in keeping with the spirit of Cecil Beaton and Lord Snowdon
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Burma to Myanmar: a muddled history that sidelines the Rohingya genocide
The British Museum's exhibition aims to reveal the country's ‘behind the headlines’ story – but makes little of the plight of the Rohingya
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‘A city born from one man’s ego’: the glory of Alexandria
Islam Issa’s lively history of the city races through two millennia, taking us from Homer to 2011's Arab Spring, via Napoleon and EM Forster
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Real Families: this show sidelines art for the message
Shifting family dynamics are the subject of the Fitzwilliam's latest – but it leaves you feeling this is art as information dissemination
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Capturing the Moment: fascinating questions lost in a curatorial cacophony
Tate Modern's show invites rich comparisons between photography and painting, then becomes a baggy history of 20th- and 21st-century art
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This Coronation portrait of the King is perilously close to insulting
In the painting, commissioned by the UAE British Embassy, the monarch sits among a cacophonous collage of images and cartoonish drawings
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Zealous, sex-mad and ‘culturally insensitive’: is Stanley Spencer doomed?
The artist has long caused outrage, but now that the Fitzwilliam in Cambridge has removed one of his paintings, the debate has intensified
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A violent, drunken, hallucinatory window into post-Soviet fiction
Intense and near-nauseating, Aleksandr Skorobogatov’s slim novel Russian Gothic is part-Gogol, part-Nabokov and thoroughly magnificent
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Animals: Art, Science, & Sound: a zoological treasure at every turn
The British Library has delved deep into its vaults for a captivating and even moving show about our visual and sonic records of fauna
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Portraits of Dogs: a treat for art-lovers and dog-lovers alike
Ranging from Byron's beloved Lyon to Hockney's Stanley and Boodgie, the Wallace Collection's new show is a smartly curated delight
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The Queen and Her Corgis: intimate glimpses into Queen Elizabeth II’s family life
The late monarch's love of her faithful companions comes touchingly alive in this small but satisfying collection of photographs
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A great museum re-opens with a superb Egyptian show – but why patronise us?
A £15 million investment has created a museum of two halves, led by a superb Egypt exhibition, but hampered by questionable curation
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Action, Gesture, Paint: So macho? Here’s kaleidoscopic proof that abstraction was anything but
Whitechapel's riveting show of female painters deftly scotches abstract expressionism's reputation for being an all-male club
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Turner in January: 200-year-old watercolours that seem shockingly modern
Brought out just once a year, but now in a bright new home, these works by the great Romantic artist have never looked better
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‘Did you see my Monet? It was pretty good’: how master art forger Tony Tetro fooled the world
Tetro was so skilled he even considered faking money, and several of his works ended up in King Charles III's estate Dumfries House
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What counts as treason? From medieval deer-poachers to Lord Haw-Haw, the story of a contentious law
A new National Archives exhibition captures 700 years of treason in seismic documents, such as Guy Fawkes’s original 1605 signed confession
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