With a single dessert and just two glasses of wine our bill was kept in check - but the effort of doing so was not much fun
Babbo
Film
This is a film with beautiful performances and a visual style that urges you towards reflection
Bright Star
Theatre
Although the first half of Kwei-Armah’s production is pacy, funny and intelligent, the energy level then drops off
Seize The Day
I loved this film from start to finish. Take the girlfriend, tell your mum - I'd see it again tomorrow and will buy the dvd.
I saw this last night and can't remember the last time I was so moved in the theatre.
I have been to many of London's so-called best Japanese restaurants and none have been as good as the food that I've had at Aqua Kyoto
This fabulous and long-overdue exhibition drawn from the hidden treasures inside the British Library reminds us of a magical time... more | Add your review
It is hardly surprisingly that the overall winner of this year's £12,000 Photographic Portrait Prize is Paul Floyd Blake's image of Rosie Bancroft.. more | Add your review
Frank Auerbach's thickly textured depictions of post-war building sites turned painting into a three-dimensional art... more | Add your view
Tatsuo Miyajima is bringing his vision to the Royal Ballet, he tells Ben Luke... more | Add your view
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Buckingham Palace visitors won't be able to tear themselves away from Johan Zoffany’s Tribuna of the Uffizi... more | Add your view
Conceptual art can be appallingly dry and arcane but in the hands of the French artist Sophie Calle it becomes a richly involving genre. .. more | Add your review
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.. more | Add your review
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BODY WORLDS & The Mirror of Time at the 02 - the original real human bodies
exhibition
The suffering expressed in the extraordinary sculptures and paintings of martyred saints from 17th-century Spain is so real, the effect is almost unbearable.. more | Add your view
Serpentine Gallery co-director Hans Ulrich Obrist is now the most powerful figure in international art. Fortunately, as he tells Alison Roberts, he considers the artists to be more important.. more | Add your view
As London’s biggest contemporary art fair opens its doors, Alastair McKay asks conceptual artist Michael Elmgreen to help him make sense of the mountain of work on show and select his highlights.. more | Add your view
Win two pairs of tickets to the Affordable Art Fair Private View with Maker's Mark... more
If being crushed inside the Frieze tent makes you hyperventilate, don't despair - some of the best one-off shows are in other parts of town.. more | Add your view
Robert Mapplethorpe's exhibition mixes surprisingly tender moments with the sensual erotic and hardcore... more | Add your review
As the last of the Plinthers quits Trafalgar Square, we look at 2,400 hours of nudity, drama, protest - and banality... more | Add your view
John Baldessari's Pure Beauty is not all easily digestible, but it's helped by exemplary, clearly written gallery wall texts. .. more | Add your review
A collection of fifty years of paintings from the 'bit too cool' Ed Ruscha tells his story well... more | Add your review
Beatles to Bowie: the 60s exposed is a nostalgic, impressive documentary marking the rapid changes in pop, contemporary design and photography between 1960-69... more | Add your review
Inspired by art-loving supermodel Claudia Schiffer, a host of names have produced works for the latest edition of Harper's Bazaar magazine... more | Add your view
The work of 20 graduates who are hoping to emulate the success of the Young British Artists is to go on show in the New Sensations... more | Add your view
The Polaroid:Exp 09.10.09 exhibition at the Atlas Gallery to mark the expiry date of the last Polaroid film... more | Add your review
This is simply the best Turner Prize in living memory, says Ben Lewis... more | Add your review
Now in its fifth year Sue Ryder Care’s nationwide annual art competition, Art Liberating Lives, is open. .. more | Add your view
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