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Teenager becomes the first person to die of swine flu in London and the fourth in the country
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It’s amazing to learn they did any research at all — unless it was into farting and foreskins
Year One
Theatre
This will appeal to those who grew up with the book as well as to anyone seeking family-friendly entertainment
Carrie's War
Music
With a smile that splits her face, the frizzy-haired singer fills her songs with playfulness and wide-eyed wonder
Regina Spektor
If you are feeling totally fed up with your lot at the moment with the economic squeeze - go see this film
I thought this was an excellent, powerful production. The staging and acting were superb, it is well worth going to see
Absolutely AMAZING show that went like a train for three hours solid and didn't waiver once!
London,
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.
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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21.05.09
The tiny exhibition of Polish Symbolism at Tate Britain serves only to emphasise the gallery’s increasingly troublesome identity crisis.
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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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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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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01.05.09
A historical exhibition curated by David Starkey makes the case for the Henry VIII's greatness – but he was a tyrant.
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.
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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03.04.09
A new survey of the Baroque is full of the ludicrous and extravagant but where is emotion, magnificence and spirit?.
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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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.
13.03.09
Marriages in Renaissance Florence were celebrated with furniture of extraordinary extravagance and symbolism.
06.03.09
While other artists gloried in the city of Venice's light, Sickert skulked in the shadows, painting gloomy views and prostitutes.
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.
