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BBC accused of having a 'culture of secrecy' after it refused to reveal how much it pays its top presenters and stars
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Precious is a new-style weepie but one that is much more bracing than depressing
Precious
Theatre
Ian McKellen is captivating throughout. He delights in the play’s gallows humour, yet is also maudlin and poignant
Waiting for Godot
Theatre
Slight quibbles notwithstanding, this will set the West End’s stock riding high
Enron
Utterly, utterly brilliant. You really are in for a treat
Though 'Trilogy' has won rave reviews, I personally found myself exasperated after about an hour
We went on a quiet sunday evening and the food was excellent, but the experience let down by the service and ambiance
London,
05.02.10
A great cry of "Why?" has reverberated round the art world for the past two days, its astonished response to the £58 million bid for a sculpture by...
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04.02.10
Theo van Doesburg, a zealot who founded the most coldly inhuman art movement of the 20th century, is the subject of Tate Modern’s best exhibition for...
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28.01.10
Tate Britain’s new retrospective does nothing to justify the lavish praise and state support he has benefited from.
28.01.10
John Craxton, to be honoured in a memorial service next week, was a brilliant painter and teacher — why is he now so rarely remembered?
21.01.10
Mad as a hatter, driven to suicide by the failure of his genius, the real Vincent Van Gogh remains elusive in the Royal Academy’s first London show of...
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14.01.10
Grand masterpieces jostle with trinkets in the V&A's new £32 million Medieval and Renaissance galleries
17.12.09
The holidays provide a wonderful chance to catch up on exhibitions — from the V&A’s fine new galleries to masterly drawings in Dulwich.
10.12.09
Van Gogh's letters, Grayson Perry's pots, a scholarly study of Caravaggio and a glimpse into the world of the insane Henry Darger - just a few of the...
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26.11.09
In the Royal Academy's exhibition of works of a triumvirate of early 20th-century sculptors, one image stands head and shoulders above the rest
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.
