09.05.08

If The Apprentice is to keep its place as the top reality show, it must sharpen up its own recruitment policy and give us contestants worthy of the...
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09.05.08

Alison Watt's huge canvases of white drapery for the National Gallery are overblown and overpraised, says Brian Sewell.

02.05.08

Tate Britain's annual re-hang is seldom worth the effort and prevents the public from viewing more celebrated pictures, says Brian Sewell.

02.05.08

Our critic, Brian Sewell, reveals the secret history of Burne-Jones’s huge last canvas, on temporary display at Tate Britain.

25.04.08

The Glynde sketch is a masterpiece worth saving for the nation, even at £6 million. But it should not go to Tate Britain, says Brian Sewell.

25.04.08

A new exhibition and book cast fresh light on the long-neglected talents as a painter of the First World War poet.

25.04.08

At last I have another dog - not a replacement for Nusch, who died last year, but just another dog to make up the number that seems the ideal

18.04.08

With the dogs safely in the car, I switched on the engine. The response was a faint tick-tick from behind the glove-box. Damn, I thought, flat battery...
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18.04.08

The Wellcome Trust's exhibition of portraits showing people shortly before and after their deaths finds both dignity and beauty in its subjects, says...
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11.04.08

The sibyls of Greek antiquity, who reach far back beyond the Trojan War, Homer and Herodotus, were women inspired by the gods to prophesy

11.04.08

Tate Britain’s exhibition of Neoclassical sculpture is both serious and scholarly. If only the works were displayed as their creators had intended,...
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04.04.08

Until I moved to the Siberia that is Wimbledon, so much of my life had been spent in Kensington that I thought of myself as a villager there

04.04.08

Just as Women’s Studies are discontinued as a discipline in British universities the National Portrait Gallery reminds us of the intellectual...
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28.03.08

To Dulwich as Pepys might have written in his diary, to see paintings of St Sebastian by Guido Reni, only to be reminded of Ross Kemp

28.03.08

Dulwich Gallery’s survey of 100 years of American painting is a confidence trick, a parade of very modest pictures, says Brian Sewell.

28.03.08

With four versions of Guido Reni’s St Sebastian on display a trip to Dulwich is worthwhile, says Brian Sewell.

14.03.08

The scene, a station on the London Underground, the time mid-afternoon, the platform crowded

14.03.08

The Queen's Gallery's enchanting new show dedicated to the strange wonders of nature is unmissable, says Brian Sewell.

13.03.08

Using the arrest of John Gielgud as the pivot of his play, Nicholas de Jongh gives himself the opportunity for wit that ranges from polished Wildean...
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07.03.08

A new show at the Royal Academy celebrates a small German painter with a big reputation who remained parochial and primitive to the last.