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February ART AND ARCHITECTURE ARTICLES AND MORE FROM MEMBERS OF THE CRITICS’ CIRCLE

In this post, we summarise all the articles by the Critics’ Circle members on art and architecture during February 2026.

Sue Hubbard has reviewed Rose Wylie Memories Relived and Shared at the Royal Academy and Tracey Emin A Mature Voice Emerges at Tate Modern, both for Artlyst.

Tabish Khan has previewed the top exhibitions to see in March for Londonist. For his newsletter Londonist Urban Palette, he has interviewed Iain Chamberlain, asked can video play nicely with other artworks? He has also uncovered the secrets of the Painted Hall in Greenwich, and asks should we save objects and artworks for the nation? For FAD magazine, he has his weekly top 5 art exhibitions and has covered Light Up Berwick. As co-host of the podcast The Good, The Bad and The Arty, he discusses preserving craft and heritage in the Middle East and beyond, as well as Art and Community at Two Temple Place.

Rachel Kubrick reports that an exhibition of Black artists reinterpreting the US flag opens without key Dread Scott work, and Club for working-class art professionals expands from London to northern England, both for The Art Newspaper.

Estelle Lovatt has spoken to AP News on the following occasions: Tracey Emin at Tate Modern, how artists brought love into their work, Seurat at The Courtauld, and Lucien Freud at the National Portrait Gallery.

Maev Kennedy reports that an Opulent golden slipper, believed to have belonged to England’s King James II, goes on display in UK, and that Gwen John—the quiet ‘seer of strange beauties’—gets major show in Wales, both for The Art Newspaper.

Lead image is of Tracey Emin’s exhibition at Tate Modern. Photo © Tate (Jai Monaghan)

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Tracey Emin: A Second Life, at Tate Modern.

Infamous bed and crying soul of artist Tracey Emin on display at new London exhibition

The infamous bed installation plus searing self portraits of the celebrated British artist, Tracey Emin, are at the centre of a major retrospective of her work in London. Tracey Emin: A Second Life, is on at Tate Modern and spans four decades of the artist’s radical career. (AP video shot by: Tom Rayner)Published 3:26 AM BST, February 26, 2026

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AP video shot by Tom Rayner

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Rethink… authenticity

In an age where AI can simulate reality, how can we tell what’s genuine and what’s not? Whether it’s art or someone’s character, does it always matter if we can’t spot a fake?

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Rethink: AI…what is authentic and what is fake.  Forgers have always tried to pass off copies as great artworks, but it’s not always clear when an artist was responsible for an entire painting or farmed out parts of the job to apprentices. A few well-known modern artists outsource all of the construction and manufacture of some of their works to skilled craftsmen and women.  Although the idea is theirs, does that make the final product somehow less than the genuine article?

Presenter: Ben Ansell.  Producer: Ravi Naik.  Editors: Lisa Baxter and Nick Holland

Rethink is a BBC co-production with the Open University.