Sarah Lucas

Big Women review – Sarah Lucas’s gal gang seek to shock

The former YBA has curated a show of 25 female artists – but the effect is superficial and cliquey

Claire Armitstead

13, Feb, 2023 @3:52 PM

Everyone’s a cynic! Film, TV, music, books and art about pessimism

From Wall Street savagery to withering R&B, choose art that shows humanity at its most misanthropic

Sasha Mistlin, Hollie Richardson, Sam Jordison, Jenessa Williams and Jonathan Jones

15, Aug, 2022 @9:00 AM

London exhibition to examine surrealism’s influence on design

Design Museum show to look at how movement revolutionised arts from furniture to fashion

Harry Taylor

17, Jul, 2022 @11:01 PM

Home is where the art is: Suffolk’s creatives throw open their doors

Leading contemporary artists who locked down in their studios give East Anglia a new cultural landscape

Alice Fisher

12, Sep, 2021 @7:30 AM

'My pubic hair paintings could hang in your living room': the artists reclaiming women's sexuality

A Woman’s Right to Pleasure is a new compendium celebrating female erotic art. We meet its contributors, including the photographer who turned her vagina into a camera

Hettie Judah

03, Mar, 2021 @6:00 AM

'He came out of the womb dancing!' Stars relive their wild times with Michael Clark

Baryshnikov couldn’t keep up, Sam Taylor-Johnson had a panic attack and Sarah Lucas built him the rudest stage set ever … as a new show celebrates the dance legend, stars pin down his punk genius

Interviews by Lyndsey Winship

30, Sep, 2020 @5:00 AM

Hard-partying ex-YBA Sarah Lucas: 'I was pretty wild'

As the shamelessly bawdy artist thunders towards her 60s, she talks about knobby guys, life in metal-detecting country – and coping with all her hair falling out last year

Andrew Gilchrist

24, Mar, 2020 @6:00 AM

The best art of the 21st century

Steve McQueen in bed, Ai Weiwei in trouble, Pussy Riot in church and Ragnar Kjartansson in the bath – they’re all included in our countdown of the best art since 2000

Adrian Searle, Jonathan Jones, Sean O’Hagan and Hettie Judah

17, Sep, 2019 @5:00 AM

The big picture: Sarah Lucas’s Got a Salmon On

Sarah Lucas plays with a salmon – and gender constructs – as British art hits a peak in 1997

Tim Adams

27, Jan, 2019 @7:00 AM

Frieze London review – women on top at the #MeToo art fair

There’s a less priapic feeling for Frieze’s 2018 edition, with female artists to the fore. Helen Chadwick urinates in snow, Hayv Kahraman makes a genital donation and Sarah Lucas artfully places biscuits on a naked man

Hettie Judah

04, Oct, 2018 @4:24 PM

Herstory review – a surprising, alarming odyssey through art by women

From sand-filled tights to a BDSM portrait, this Lancashire gallery gets a major lift with a provocative show

Adrian Searle

31, Jul, 2018 @5:00 AM

Magical Monet and Tracey Emin's message for travellers – the week in art

Emin has a warm welcome for everyone arriving at St Pancras station, as the National Gallery probes Monet’s mind and Linder Sterling roughs up Chatsworth House – all in your weekly dispatch

Jonathan Jones

06, Apr, 2018 @1:11 PM