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quoteOne of the worst movies I have seen. Was looking forward to a laugh ... not sure I laughed once! quote

How To Lose Friends & Alienate People Theatre

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quoteDavid Walliams is so out of his depth in this production that my friends and I were gripping the seats in embarrassmentquote

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Minjun

Thank you, Mr Saatchi

We should be grateful for the opening show of the collector's new gallery — it illustrates the true mediocrity of contemporary Chinese art... more |  Add your review 

 
Arts & Exhibitions Gerhard Richter

Not quite up to Richter's scale

Unless you practise transcendental meditation on abstract painting, you aren't going to spend more than 15 minutes at the Gerhard Richter exhibition. .. more |  Add your review 

 
Arts & Exhibitions Miro

Dealer's choice for Aimé Maeght

A new show of works from Aimé Maeght's collection fails to ask where and how he got the pictures, says Brian Sewell... more |  Add your review 

 
Arts & Exhibitions Turner Prize

Race for Turner Prize

Most of the time it's so obvious who's going to win the Turner Prize. But this time it's going to be a much closer-run race... more |  Add your review 

 

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Arts & Exhibitions Art London

Art London enters new world

Art London is spicing up life for the Chelsea Pensioners by celebrating its 10th anniversary in their grounds... more |  Add your review 

 
Arts & Exhibitions Lancaster

Cartoons drawn to snobbishness

Cartoons and Coronets is smallish but has laid its hands on the originals of almost all Osbert Lancaster's best work... more |  Add your review 

 
Arts & Exhibitions seizure

Seizure is rhapsody in blue crystal

Just north of Elephant and Castle, in an unlikely housing estate, something beautiful and deadly is blooming by artist Roger Hiorns. .. more |  Add your view 

 

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Arts & Exhibitions Rothko

What's it all about Rothko?

Tate Modern's new exhibition of Rothko's late works offers fascinating insights into their making but doesn't give a convincing answer to the big question... more |  Add your review 

 
Arts & Exhibitions Cut and Paste

Masters of scissors and glue in cut and paste

Occasionally an exhibition both startling and compelling lands in one of London’s off-centre galleries. Cut and paste is one of them... more |  Add your review 

 
Arts & Exhibitions London Bridge

Discovering the lost City

The City's Heritage exhibition at the Guildhall tracks artefacts that began life in London but ended up elsewhere... more |  Add your review 

 
Arts & Exhibitions Ernst Haas

Ernst Haas was streets ahead of his time

The Ernst Haas: Total Vision exhibition opens with with the colour-drenched Route 66, Albuquerque, New Mexico and has breathtaking pieces... more |  Add your review 

 
Arts & Exhibitions Cold War Modern

Oh! What a lovely Cold War exhibition

Art and design, displayed with coherence and humour, throw new light on a dark era for the Cold War Modern: Design exhibition... more |  Add your review 

 
Arts & Exhibitions Antanas Sutkus

Soviets in soft focus for Sutkus

Since joining the EU in 2004, Lithuania’s capital, Vilnius, has emerged as a new focus for art and photography, particularly for Antanas Sutkus... more |  Add your review 

 
Arts & Exhibitions Design Cities

Sensuousness in Design Cities

Design Cities works best as an educational primer on modern design, a quick introduction to the highlights of the past 150 years... more |  Add your review 

 
Arts & Exhibitions Eloiza Mills

Now for a real art prize

City sponsors have created just what contemporary art needs – the Threadneedle Figurative Prize. Brian Sewell explains more... more |  Add your view 

 
Arts & Exhibitions Damien Hirst

Damien's million-dollar show

Damien Hirst’s Beautiful Inside My Head Forever exhibition at Sotheby’s has many of the 223 new works on show for allcomers to inspect... more |  Add your review 

 
 


 
 
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