Nancy Durrant

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Anish Kapoor, Venice review — inside the mind of an artist who thinks big

By: Nancy Durrant

The artist’s exhibition at Palazzo Manfrin, part of the Biennale, displays models of his most famous works over the past 50 years, from Cloud Gate to the egregiously ugly Orbit

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Lubaina Himid in Venice review — a British Pavilion heavy on whimsy

By: Nancy Durrant

The Turner prize-winning artist represents the UK at the Biennale with a show about what it means to make a home, featuring cactus growers, birds and the bleating of sheep

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What the seven best shows at the Venice Biennale tell us about art

By: Nancy Durrant

Major artists such as Anish Kapoor stole the headlines but underneath the surface of this art jamboree are treasures (and horrors), finds our critic

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Frida Kahlo’s family home is now a museum — and shows a new side to her

By: Nancy Durrant

Museo Casa Kahlo in Mexico City features more than 2,000 personal items, which reveal a side of the artist’s life and work that has never been seen before

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Lauren Cuthbertson’s terrifying brain infection: ‘I couldn’t move my legs’

By: Nancy Durrant

She’s our biggest ballet star since Darcey Bussell, but was struck down by viral meningitis. She recalls how the pain was like an ‘earthquake in my head’ and her battle to get back to the stage

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Who is the real Frida Kahlo? The art, the legend, the moustache

By: Nancy Durrant

As Tate Modern’s exhibition dedicated to the artist opens, Nancy Durrant reports from Mexico City on the making of a global phenomenon

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For sale — Marie Antoinette’s dog bed and other princely delights

By: Nancy Durrant

This year’s Treasure House Fair features a trove of regal-themed objets d’art. Nancy Durrant selects the finest pieces available to buy

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Tamara Rojo: ‘I danced with a robot. There was no tenderness’

By: Nancy Durrant

In her first UK interview since taking over San Francisco Ballet, the star dancer talks about AI and a transformative $60m donation from Silicon Valley

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The ten best exhibitions to see at the Edinburgh Art Festival 2026

By: Nancy Durrant

From a five-star survey of Gwen John’s radiant paintings to Sgàire Wood’s look at the troubled history of Belfast, our art critic picks her highlights

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Josh O’Connor: ‘There’s this need for success around us’

By: Nancy Durrant

The film star is back on the stage for the first time in over a decade in Golden Boy. Nancy Durrant sits in on rehearsals