Critics' Choice

Music

John Aizlewood

quoteAn ill-conceived Queen medley was unspeakably naff, but frankly who cares?quote

John Aizlewood Celine Dion Comedy

Bruce Dessau

quoteIt could be as irritating as nails down a blackboard yet it works as warped surrealismquote

Bruce Dessau Dina Martina Theatre

Nicholas de Jongh

quoteI soon found myself as overwhelmed by David Calder’s King Lear as any interpretation I have seen in 25 yearsquote

Nicholas de Jongh King Lear

Reader reviews

Theatre

Selwyn, Epsom

quoteWhy oh why didn't I take up the offer of leaving in the interval?quote

Gone With The Wind Music

David, London

quoteKate is a good singer, very expressive, although not a great dancerquote

The Long Blondes Music

Dave J., London

quoteThis was a masterclass in funk, soul and R&Bquote

Eric Burdon And War

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Read Brian Sewell's latest art column every Friday in the Evening Standard

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He really should have fired the 'bloody lot'

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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All tied up in knots

09.05.08

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

Hang it all – they've hidden everything

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.

Can you see anything wrong with this picture?

02.05.08

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

Right Rubens, wrong gallery

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.

Who was Isaac Rosenberg?

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.

Bins raided, scarf ripped - the delight of a new dog

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

Tick - the sound that every driver must dread

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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Before...and after

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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Underground meeting with a real-life Delphic sibyl

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

Oh my gods!

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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The modern ruin of my favourite restaurant

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

Bluestocking Blues

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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Hard man's guide to the camp side of fine art

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

Roll up, roll up

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.

Guido the great

28.03.08

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

You take your life in your hands on the Underground

14.03.08

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

Curiouser and curiouser

14.03.08

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

An age I remember

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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Cranach the Crude

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.

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