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Five of the Best...Exhibitions
  1. Jeff Koons: Popeye
  2. Badges of Dishonour
  3. Walking in the Mind
  4. Keith Coventry: Works 2002-2009
  5. Tracey Emin

Critics' Choice

Film

Derek Malcolm

quoteIt’s amazing to learn they did any research at all — unless it was into farting and foreskinsquote

Derek Malcolm Year One Theatre

Henry Hitchings

quoteThis will appeal to those who grew up with the book as well as to anyone seeking family-friendly entertainmentquote

Henry Hitchings Carrie's War Music

Rick Pearson

quoteWith a smile that splits her face, the frizzy-haired singer fills her songs with playfulness and wide-eyed wonderquote

Rick Pearson Regina Spektor

Reader reviews

Film

Russell. Hertfordshire

quoteIf you are feeling totally fed up with your lot at the moment with the economic squeeze - go see this filmquote

Sunshine Cleaning Theatre

Heather, London

quoteI thought this was an excellent, powerful production. The staging and acting were superb, it is well worth going to seequote

Observe The Sons Of Ulster Marching Towards The Somme Music

Debbie & Bill Holmes

quoteAbsolutely AMAZING show that went like a train for three hours solid and didn't waiver once!quote

Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band

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Brian Sewell

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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...
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Identity crisis at Tate Britain

21.05.09

The tiny exhibition of Polish Symbolism at Tate Britain serves only to emphasise the gallery’s increasingly troublesome identity crisis.

Brian Sewell: How I was won over by electric transport

14.05.09

As the world's fastest electric bike goes on sale in London next month, actress Imogen Stubbs goes for her first two-wheel electric spin while Brian...
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A tale of two Cities

10.05.09

You don't need to visit Prague or Vienna to see some of Europe's finest art: the Franco-German border has its own less heralded treasures, says Brian...
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The glove that changed Guernica

08.05.09

In 1937, the blitzing of a Spanish town prompted Picasso to begin work on a vast painting – but one poignant item gave his masterpiece its final...
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Horrible Henry VIII on show in British Library

01.05.09

A historical exhibition curated by David Starkey makes the case for the Henry VIII's greatness – but he was a tyrant.

William Blake the bleak

24.04.09

In its restaging of his 1809 show, Tate Britain hopes for a reassessment of William Blake's wild illusions and gloomy paintings.

Wellcome return to Madness & Modernity

17.04.09

You didn't have to be mad to live there but it helped in turn-of-the-century Vienna, where revolutions in art and psychiatry produced extraordinary...
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Baroque was first age of bling

03.04.09

A new survey of the Baroque is full of the ludicrous and extravagant but where is emotion, magnificence and spirit?.

Sea of stories in Forced Voyages

27.03.09

A survey of the paintings of Jewish artists who came to Britain after fleeing Nazi Germany tells of tragic journeys and rich inner lives in Forced...
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Face to face with Constable

20.03.09

Like most of his contemporaries, the painter of The Hay Wain started with portraits. It is as well for posterity that he moved on to landscapes.

Love and Marriage is some wedding present

13.03.09

Marriages in Renaissance Florence were celebrated with furniture of extraordinary extravagance and symbolism.

Sickert in Venice as you've never seen it before

06.03.09

While other artists gloried in the city of Venice's light, Sickert skulked in the shadows, painting gloomy views and prostitutes.

Poor Picasso

27.02.09

Picasso is not served well by the National Gallery's new show but there are enough thrilling pictures to make it worthwhile.

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