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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
London,
15.10.09
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
14.10.09
A collection of fifty years of paintings from the 'bit too cool' Ed Ruscha tells his story well.
13.10.09
John Baldessari's Pure Beauty is not all easily digestible, but it's helped by exemplary, clearly written gallery wall texts.
12.10.09
Art: what's it good for? When these kinds of titles are thought up for debates there are a lot of short cuts taken with the meanings of words
06.10.09
This is simply the best Turner Prize in living memory, says Ben Lewis.
01.10.09
Once they were going to call it Sold Out; they could have called it Cashing In; but they settled in the end for the upbeat but neutral title Pop Life....
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30.09.09
Gustav Metzger uses the basic principle of LCDs to create a display whose intensity of colour, texture and atmosphere recalls Rothko or Yves Klein.
14.09.09
Repetition is the theme behind this expansive and varied show ranging from American giants such as Richard Prince to budding British twentysomethings
07.09.09
David Harrison’s small but luxurious paintings look like the illustrations for children’s fairytales
18.08.09
One day the Hayward or the Tate will mount a mammoth exhibition on the history of collage. Until then, this show serves as a dress rehearsal
13.08.09
The exhibitionists may be out of town for summer but there's still plenty of great art on show. Here’s our guide to London’s top 10 free hidden...
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16.07.09
Charles LeDray spent three years making Mens Suits. The exactitude of his work, and the transformation of scale, create an intensely symbolic...
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16.07.09
Posing as Yuri and Konstantin Shamanov, the Chapman brothers have nailed geometric assemblages of intersecting pieces of driftwood.
09.07.09
Classified works well as a top 20 of British art of the past 10 years or so.
09.07.09
There's something lovable about Elizabeth Peyton's schoolgirl-kitsch pop star portraits — but do they have life beyond the bedroom wall?
08.07.09
Emmanouil Bitsakis's portraits timely and newsworthy — but these are also stunning paintings in their own right.
06.07.09
There’s little drama in One & Other — surely the most inevitable idea in art ever — as the behaviour of the first three official plinth-people is...
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02.07.09
Just when you thought he'd run out of ideas, Jeff Koons, one of the biggest celebrity artists of our age, comes up with a whole new fantasy
29.06.09
A witty and nerdy exhibition of satirical medals from forgotten 18th and 19th-century master-craftsmen and from contemporary artists opens at the...
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25.06.09
Keith Coventry is one of the best painting shows you will see this year.
