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The BBC's new reality show, The School of Saatchi, will do for aspiring artists what the X Factor does for budding pop stars... more | Add your view
An awesome and ridiculous film that leaves you thrilled beyond the point of your natural endurance
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The show has suddenly become quite wonderful, and the galvanising factor is the terrific stage debut of Melanie C
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I was smitten by both Gilberts enormous luxuriant moustache and the intelligence and nuance of this highly entertaining play
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Always been a fan but never seen them live. I was ecstatic to be part of this epic event. WOW!

Edward Kienholz is the forgotten father of installation art - and his evocation of the red light district of Amsterdam captures the truth about the sex trade.. more | Add your review
The BBC's new reality show, The School of Saatchi, will do for aspiring artists what the X Factor does for budding pop stars... more | Add your view
This year's Bloomberg New Contemporaries, a show of hot new talent, heralds a fresh era for contemporary art... more | Add your view
This fabulous and long-overdue exhibition drawn from the hidden treasures inside the British Library reminds us of a magical time... more | Add your review
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It is hardly surprisingly that the overall winner of this year's £12,000 Photographic Portrait Prize is Paul Floyd Blake's image of Rosie Bancroft.. more | Add your review
Frank Auerbach's thickly textured depictions of post-war building sites turned painting into a three-dimensional art... more | Add your view
Tatsuo Miyajima is bringing his vision to the Royal Ballet, he tells Ben Luke... more | Add your view
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BODY WORLDS & The Mirror of Time at the 02 - the original real human bodies
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Buckingham Palace visitors won't be able to tear themselves away from Johan Zoffany’s Tribuna of the Uffizi... more | Add your view
Conceptual art can be appallingly dry and arcane but in the hands of the French artist Sophie Calle it becomes a richly involving genre. .. more | Add your review
Damien Hirst is nearing his half-century and should have a far higher level of skill than the rough daubing he shows in No Love Lost.. more | Add your review
The suffering expressed in the extraordinary sculptures and paintings of martyred saints from 17th-century Spain is so real, the effect is almost unbearable.. more | Add your view
Serpentine Gallery co-director Hans Ulrich Obrist is now the most powerful figure in international art. Fortunately, as he tells Alison Roberts, he considers the artists to be more important.. more | Add your view
As London’s biggest contemporary art fair opens its doors, Alastair McKay asks conceptual artist Michael Elmgreen to help him make sense of the mountain of work on show and select his highlights.. more | Add your view
Win two pairs of tickets to the Affordable Art Fair Private View with Maker's Mark... more
If being crushed inside the Frieze tent makes you hyperventilate, don't despair - some of the best one-off shows are in other parts of town.. more | Add your view
Robert Mapplethorpe's exhibition mixes surprisingly tender moments with the sensual erotic and hardcore... more | Add your review
As the last of the Plinthers quits Trafalgar Square, we look at 2,400 hours of nudity, drama, protest - and banality... more | Add your view
John Baldessari's Pure Beauty is not all easily digestible, but it's helped by exemplary, clearly written gallery wall texts. .. more | Add your review
A collection of fifty years of paintings from the 'bit too cool' Ed Ruscha tells his story well... more | Add your review
Beatles to Bowie: the 60s exposed is a nostalgic, impressive documentary marking the rapid changes in pop, contemporary design and photography between 1960-69... more | Add your review
Inspired by art-loving supermodel Claudia Schiffer, a host of names have produced works for the latest edition of Harper's Bazaar magazine... more | Add your view
The work of 20 graduates who are hoping to emulate the success of the Young British Artists is to go on show in the New Sensations... more | Add your view