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With a single dessert and just two glasses of wine our bill was kept in check - but the effort of doing so was not much fun
Babbo
Film
This is a film with beautiful performances and a visual style that urges you towards reflection
Bright Star
Theatre
Although the first half of Kwei-Armah’s production is pacy, funny and intelligent, the energy level then drops off
Seize The Day
I loved this film from start to finish. Take the girlfriend, tell your mum - I'd see it again tomorrow and will buy the dvd.
I saw this last night and can't remember the last time I was so moved in the theatre.
I 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 Kyoto
London,
05.11.09
Frank Auerbach's thickly textured depictions of post-war building sites turned painting into a three-dimensional art.
29.10.09
Buckingham Palace visitors won't be able to tear themselves away from Johan Zoffany’s Tribuna of the Uffizi.
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...
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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
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.
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...
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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.
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.
07.08.09
Before her recent death, one rescue animal had thrown off the damage of the past and realised her instincts
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.
30.07.09
Titian's battered painting of Cupid has been saved for the nation, newly restored and now put on display.
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...
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16.07.09
Never mind the gaps in the National Gallery’s survey of landscape, the joy is in the wonderfully impetuous sketches.
03.07.09
Among the great and good, the wise and wonderful, there is a tendency to condemn reality TV
25.06.09
A new exhibition shows JW Waterhouse's chief aim was to stir the loins of Victorian collectors.
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.
11.06.09
British Imperialism in the 19th century is a subtext of the Garden and Cosmos exhibition at the British Museum.
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.
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.
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...
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