Exhibition of the week: A rich, enlightening and cathartic experience awaits those who retrace the road to Mecca in Bloomsbury
Read full review...A collection of Indian miniatures influenced by music has its enchanting moments but its mysteries remain unexplained
Exhibition of the week: Extravagant claims are made for the master draughtsman's gigantic paintings of the Yorkshire countryside but the truth is revealed by their ghastly gaudiness
Exhibition of the week: Extravagant claims are made for the master draughtsman's gigantic paintings of the Yorkshire countryside but the truth is revealed by their ghastly gaudiness
From Antico to Zoffany, 2011 has been distinguished by works of scholarship, flair and fun
Beautiful photographs record the awesome hostility of the ice that confronted ill-prepared explorers of Antarctica a century ago
Exhibition of the week: The drawings, paintings and prints of a 17th-century master of light provide magical moments
Exhibition on the week: As a record of daily life in Bengal and Hong Kong during the days of the British Empire, George Chinnery's almost forgotten pretty pictures are worth remembering
Exhibition on the week: Charles Saatchi has gathered together the most promising artists of Germany but the show could do with more vorsprung durch technik. Brian Sewell takes a look
Sex began for Brian Sewell in 1959. In this exclusive extract from his autobiography, the Evening Standard's art critic reveals how he abandoned religion and discovered the pleasures of the flesh on London's streets at the age of 28
In the second part of his review of the National Gallery's unmissable Leonardo da Vinci exhibition, Brian Sewell looks at the woman whose image changed portraiture
In the first of two pieces on the National Gallery's extraordinary once-in-a-lifetime exhibition, our critic looks at how da Vinci blossomed from late starter to Renaissance master
A new show shines the spotlight on the best-known actresses of the 17th and 18th century - and the artists who played a part in their celebrity
Seventy years before Peter Doig even thought of producing his first richly embroidered landscape, Canadian painters had set the standard for him
Read at a sitting, Great Works: 50 Paintings Explored is an indigestible accumulation of maverick ideas but I could not put it down
Grayson Perry's infantile and gaudy works make no sense among the primitive treasures of the British Museum
A manifesto is published here for the first time, and it provides a clearer definition of the movement than an exhibition of pots, pans and preposterous furniture can hope to do
John Martin's visions of the end of the world provide a triumphant climax for a thoroughly cinematic show
An exhibition at the Royal Academy displays the master Impressionist's irrepressible determination to capture movement, says Brian Sewell
The riots have prompted David Cameron to relaunch his National Citizen Service - but there's a better solution
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