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Five of the Best...Exhibitions
  1. The Conversation Piece
  2. The Sacred Made Real
  3. Sophie Calle
  4. Ed Ruscha
  5. Robert Mapplethorpe: A Season In Hell

Critics' Choice

Restaurants

Fay Maschler

quoteWith a single dessert and just two glasses of wine our bill was kept in check - but the effort of doing so was not much funquote

Fay Maschler Babbo Film

Andrew O'Hagan

quoteThis is a film with beautiful performances and a visual style that urges you towards reflectionquote

Andrew O'Hagan Bright Star Theatre

Henry Hitchings

quoteAlthough the first half of Kwei-Armah’s production is pacy, funny and intelligent, the energy level then drops offquote

Henry Hitchings Seize The Day

Reader reviews

Film

Squiz, Islington

quoteI loved this film from start to finish. Take the girlfriend, tell your mum - I'd see it again tomorrow and will buy the dvd.quote

An Education Theatre

Joe, London

quoteI saw this last night and can't remember the last time I was so moved in the theatre.quote

This Much Is True Restaurants

Hiroshi Sugiyama

quoteI have been to many of London's so-called best Japanese restaurants and none have been as good as the food that I've had at Aqua Kyotoquote

Aqua Kyoto

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Arts & Exhibitions

London,
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Life through a lens

All life through the lens with Taylor Wessing prize

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 

 
Arts Frank Auerbach

The paint's the thing for Frank Auerbach

Frank Auerbach's thickly textured depictions of post-war building sites turned painting into a three-dimensional art... more |  Add your view 

 
Arts Tatsuo

Tatsuo Miyajima is keeper of the light fantastic

Tatsuo Miyajima is bringing his vision to the Royal Ballet, he tells Ben Luke... more |  Add your view 

 
Arts Tribuna

Tribuna is grand as the grand tour

Buckingham Palace visitors won't be able to tear themselves away from Johan Zoffany’s Tribuna of the Uffizi... more |  Add your view 

 

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Arts Sophie Calle

The joy of text with Sophie Calle

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 

 
Arts Requiem, White Roses and Butterflies, 2008

Stop it, Damien Hirst, you're embarrassing yourself

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 

 
Arts The Dead Christ of Gregorio Fernández

The agony and ecstasy of The Sacred Made Real

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 

 

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Body Worlds Exhibition

Bodyworld BODY WORLDS & The Mirror of Time at the 02 - the original real human bodies exhibition
 
Arts Hans Ulrich Obrist

Hans Ulrich Obrist - the God of planet art

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 

 
Arts Michael Elmgreen

An artist's guide to Frieze

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 

 
Competitions Markers mark

Bag Affordable Art Fair tickets

Win two pairs of tickets to the Affordable Art Fair Private View with Maker's Mark... more

 
Arts Museum of Everything

All the fun without the fair

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 

 
Arts Mapplethorpe

Shocking, sensual symbolism from Robert Mapplethorpe

Robert Mapplethorpe's exhibition mixes surprisingly tender moments with the sensual erotic and hardcore... more |  Add your review 

 
Arts The Fourth Plinth

Bringing an end to 100 days on the Plinth

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 

 
Arts God nose

John Baldessari does a great line in conceptual gags

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 

 
Arts Ruscha

Ed Ruscha's Fifty Years of Painting is cool to the core

A collection of fifty years of paintings from the 'bit too cool' Ed Ruscha tells his story well... more |  Add your review 

 
Arts Tom Jones

Photographs go pop in Beatles to Bowie show

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 

 
Arts Claudia

Claudia Schiffer in the clutches of modern art

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 

 
Arts Shoe cases

Saatchi makes case for young art

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 

 
Arts Warhol

As Polaroid expires, some instant reminders of its power

The Polaroid:Exp 09.10.09 exhibition at the Atlas Gallery to mark the expiry date of the last Polaroid film... more |  Add your review 

 
Arts Turner Prize

The Turner Prize is the best of British art

This is simply the best Turner Prize in living memory, says Ben Lewis... more |  Add your review 

 
Arts Liberating Lives

Showcase your art and save lives

Now in its fifth year Sue Ryder Care’s nationwide annual art competition, Art Liberating Lives, is open. .. more |  Add your view 

 
Arts Art by Keik

World's leading galleries showcased in Art London

Art London returns to Chelsea in a 75000 square foot marquee in the grounds of the Royal Hospital... more |  Add your view 

 
 
 


 
 
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