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David Sexton

quoteFor a chain, Gaucho is startlingly expensive, the final bill ending up pretty close to one from much more stylish, individual restaurantsquote

David Sexton Gaucho Film

Charlotte O'Sullivan

quoteAction heroes are often small; Wanted, at least, acknowledges the missing inches - and does so with a smilequote

Charlotte O'Sullivan Wanted Theatre

Nick Curtis

quoteThis lightweight tennis comedy scores few pointsquote

Nick Curtis Grand Slam

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Jake, London

quoteI challenge anyone not to walk out feeling on cloud nine and humming Mamma Mia!quote

Mamma Mia! Restaurants

Simon, London

quoteService is appalling. Last time I went here they had run out of pizza dough at 8pmquote

Pucci Pizza Theatre

Andy, London

quoteI found it to be funny, insightful and interesting as a new workquote

On The Rocks

Arts & Exhibitions London,

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Living Torrent

Fighting for a lost cause

Pure colour and tiny touches of paint were the means by which a group of exciting young Italian artists were convinced they could take painting into the 20th century, says Brian Sewell... more |  Add your review 

 
Arts & Exhibitions Martin Creed

Show now running at the Tate

All day, every day, for the next four months an athlete will run the 86 metres of Tate Britain's central Duveens Galleries... more |  Add your review 

 
Arts & Exhibitions Untitled Cowboy

Prince of thieves

He steals from popular culture, enlarging images from magazines and painting over book covers - Richard Prince is the master of appropriation... more |  Add your review 

 
Arts & Exhibitions Mitra Trabizian

Strange stories in That Place

Instead of dealing with the familiar and overloading her work with detail, Mitra Tabrizian goes for the bizarre and the stark, says Ben Lewis. .. more |  Add your review 

 

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Lucian Freud painting A Lucian Freud painting is likely to become the most expensive by a living artist
Theatre Woman at Piano

Revival for great Dane Vilhelm Hammershøi

Michael Palin is urging all art-lovers to snap up a ticket for what is Vilhelm Hammershøi's first major retrospective in the UK. .. more |  Add your review 

 
Arts & Exhibitions From War to Windrush

Fighting for a place in postwar Britain

From War to Windrush is a new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum that looks at early manifestations of immigration and racism... more |  Add your review 

 
Arts & Exhibitions Card Players

Courtauld shows all Cézannes

The Courtauld Gallery is to show its entire collection of works by Paul Cézanne for the first time; including Card Players and Man With A Pipe... more |  Add your view 

 

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Arts & Exhibitions Anticipation

Best of Britain's young artists in Saatchi show

Selfridges is presenting an exhibition of the best of Britain's young artists with curators hoping to sell the work... more |  Add your view 

 
Arts & Exhibitions Bacchus

Twombling Free

A marvellous retrospective at the Tate Modern unravels the career of an American who mounted a mind-blowing assault on the act of painting, explains Ben Lewis.. more |  Add your review 

 
Arts & Exhibitions Samuel Beckett

Minihan reveals literature through his photos

John Minihan was best known for his uniquely personal shots of playwright Samuel Beckett. Sue Steward was impressed by a collection of his black-and-white portraits of Irish public figures... more |  Add your review 

 
Arts & Exhibitions An image from Tom Hunter's exhibition: Are You Being Served?

Art of counter culture

With impressive compositional perfection, East End shopkeepers and their shops and wares are made the subjects of fine photographic art in Tom Hunter's new exhibition, Are You Being Served?.. more |  Add your review 

 
Arts & Exhibitions Suitcases and Sanctuary Exhibition

New Londoners' case histories

From 18th-century Huguenots to recent waves of immigrants from the Caribbean and Bangladesh, Suitcases and Sanctuary is a moving exhibition of the experiences of those who have come to the... more |  Add your review 

 
Arts & Exhibitions Amanda Smith

Portrait Award is a mug's game

In an attempt to refresh the BP Portrait Award, the National Portrait Gallery has relaxed its rules – with no discernible improvement in quality for its efforts... more |  Add your review 

 
Arts & Exhibitions Man On a Bridge

When Dylan paints his masterpiece

Bob Dylan's fascinating collection at the Halcyon Gallery is surprisingly literal for a poet of such extreme surreal imagery... more |  Add your review 

 
Arts & Exhibitions Sandy Nairne

Defending National Portrait Gallery

Evening Standard art critic Brian Sewell has questioned the point of the National Portrait Gallery. Here its director Sandy Nairne fights back... more |  Add your view 

 
 


 
 
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