Weather Tonight: 5°c Light showers Morning: 9°c Mostly cloudy

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

Global search results London,

Brian Sewell

Art critic

Brian Sewell
 
 

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 NEXT

The paint's the thing for Frank Auerbach

05.11.09

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

Tribuna is grand as the grand tour

29.10.09

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

The agony and ecstasy of The Sacred Made Real

22.10.09

The suffering expressed in the extraordinary sculptures and paintings of martyred saints from 17th-century Spain is so real, the effect is almost...
more

Stop it, Damien Hirst, you're embarrassing yourself

15.10.09

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

Montezuma's revenge from Anish Kapoor

01.10.09

Bodily fluids are a common theme of the British Museum’s Aztec artefacts and Anish Kapoor’s misfiring japes at the Royal Academy.

Turner’s masterclass at the Tate

24.09.09

The Damien Hirst of his day, he was celebrated, expensive and ambitious and often pitted himself against the old masters — with results that are as...
more

What a performance from Zhang Huan

03.09.09

The genius of Chinese artist Zhang Huan is better represented by a fascinating new book than by the two live pigs in his new show.

Which Threadneedle piece gets your vote?

27.08.09

The final winner of the £25,000 Threadneedle Prize is decided by the public and the poll is now open — if only the shortlist were stronger.

Jack - the whippet who learned how to be a dog at last

07.08.09

Before her recent death, one rescue animal had thrown off the damage of the past and realised her instincts

Super models reveal all in Exquisite Bodies

04.08.09

Brian Sewell greatly enjoyed the Exquisite Bodies exhibition at the Wellcome Collection, he only regrets that it is not twice the size.

Titian taken to the cleaners at the National Gallery

30.07.09

Titian's battered painting of Cupid has been saved for the nation, newly restored and now put on display.

Not so grand designs

23.07.09

The influential critic Roger Fry set up the Omega Workshops to apply his ideas about art to everyday objects — but the Bloomsbury artists he employed...
more

Pointless pleasures from Corot to Monet

16.07.09

Never mind the gaps in the National Gallery’s survey of landscape, the joy is in the wonderfully impetuous sketches.

Reality TV shows are Aesop's fables for modern times

03.07.09

Among the great and good, the wise and wonderful, there is a tendency to condemn reality TV

Phwoar! It's John William Waterhouse

25.06.09

A new exhibition shows JW Waterhouse's chief aim was to stir the loins of Victorian collectors.

Futurism imperfect at Tate Modern

18.06.09

It was a revolutionary movement that boasted of creating a new beauty — but the Futurism exhibition at the Tate misses many of its big moments.

Garden and Cosmos is in need of perspective

11.06.09

British Imperialism in the 19th century is a subtext of the Garden and Cosmos exhibition at the British Museum.

Michelangelo’s earliest painting should have been saved

04.06.09

Michelangelo’s earliest painting may not be a great painting in any conventional sense but it is both a rare and extraordinary document.

Abstract America goes back to New York school

04.06.09

There is no shock of the new at Charles Saatchi’s latest show, Abstract America, but there is pleasure to be found in old ideas.

I was wrong, Charles – you have done us all a service

28.05.09

One of Charles Saatchi's fiercest critics now believes his former bête noire deserves a knighthood for bringing the latest international art to...
more

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 NEXT

 


 
 
London's Weather
Tonight
Light showers
5°c
Morning
Mostly cloudy
9°c
5 day forecast
 
 

Daily Mail Mail on Sunday Travel Mail This is Money Metro

Loot | Jobsite | Homes & property | London jobs | FindaProperty.com | Primelocation.com | Educate London | Holiday Villas