Frank Auerbach's thickly textured depictions of post-war building sites turned painting into a three-dimensional art.
Read full article...Buckingham Palace visitors won't be able to tear themselves away from Johan Zoffany’s Tribuna of the Uffizi.
The suffering expressed in the extraordinary sculptures and paintings of martyred saints from 17th-century Spain is so real, the effect is almost unbearable
Bodily fluids are a common theme of the British Museum’s Aztec artefacts and Anish Kapoor’s misfiring japes at the Royal Academy.
The Damien Hirst of his day, he was celebrated, expensive and ambitious and often pitted himself against the old masters — with results that are as enjoyably bad as good
The final winner of the £25,000 Threadneedle Prize is decided by the public and the poll is now open — if only the shortlist were stronger.
Before her recent death, one rescue animal had thrown off the damage of the past and realised her instincts
The influential critic Roger Fry set up the Omega Workshops to apply his ideas about art to everyday objects — but the Bloomsbury artists he employed were woeful craftsmen
Among the great and good, the wise and wonderful, there is a tendency to condemn reality TV
One of Charles Saatchi's fiercest critics now believes his former bête noire deserves a knighthood for bringing the latest international art to London...
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 Sewell is won over by the new battery-powered Smart car
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 Sewell
Among the arts pages today you will read the statement to the effect that "Brian Sewell is away". Do not believe it - at least not in the sense of away skiing or away climbing Mount Ararat again
How fortunate women are when evening dress is mandatory - men are committed to the dinner jacket
In November 1949 at Covent Garden, I saw Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov for the first time, with the sublimely beautiful voice of Christoff as Boris, a Bulgarian giant among the pygmy Welshmen who were the hacks of the regular company
SKATE in black butter, skate with capers, skate au gratin ... alas, I can eat no more of this favourite fish now that it has been declared endangered
I do not much care for the thousand operas of George Frideric Handel, musical tub-thumper to King George I, but I submit to him from time to time to discover if I like them any better
To the National Gallery to see the Titian for which we must amass a duke's ransom by Christmas - so reads my diary...
It was not a crowd, rather a loose scattering of disconsolate groups along the platform football supporters of some wretched fourth division team that had lost a match in foreign parts
It is to the obituary columns that I turn first in daily papers - an age thing, I suppose
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