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An awesome and ridiculous film that leaves you thrilled beyond the point of your natural endurance
2012
Theatre
The show has suddenly become quite wonderful, and the galvanising factor is the terrific stage debut of Melanie C
Blood Brothers
Music
The British pop music industry may be eating itself but if Muse are the pick of what it can offer the world in 2010 then British music is in rude health indeed
Muse
I was smitten by both Gilberts enormous luxuriant moustache and the intelligence and nuance of this highly entertaining play
I totally recommend Babbo to anyone who is looking for really good and traditional Italian food
Always been a fan but never seen them live. I was ecstatic to be part of this epic event. WOW!
London,
19.11.09
Edward Kienholz is the forgotten father of installation art - and his evocation of the red light district of Amsterdam captures the truth about the...
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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.
