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Size isn't everything

20.01.11
Today's sculptures have grown to such huge proportions that hardly any of them fit in the Royal Academy's survey. Never mind - there are more enduring pleasures to behold... more

Grade I protection for St James’s Tube station

12.01.11
Underground station takes its place alongside Buckingham Palace and the Tower of London as one of the capital’s most important buildings... more

Modigliani nude sells for record £43 million

03.11.10
Modigliani nude fetches £43;million in what Sotheby’s claimed was its best New York sale in two years... more

‘Old Flo’ sculpture heads back home to the East End

17.09.10
Henry Moore sculpture is to be returned to an East End estate after a campaign by Tower Hamlets councillor Tim Archer... more

Shed those preconceptions and you will see it’s art

08.09.10
The Merz Barn is to be recreated at the Royal Academy as a centrepiece of a major new show... more

Trafalgar Square lions firm goes bust

20.05.10
Art group that built many of London’s most famous statues, including the lions in Trafalgar Square, has gone bust... more

Stepney residents plead for return of Henry Moore sculpture

30.03.10
Campaign has been launched to return a work by Henry Moore to London from the Yorkshire Sculpture Park where it has been on long-term loan... more

Does Henry Moore deserve his monumental reputation?

25.02.10
He may have been the world’s last great figurative sculptor but much of Henry Moore’s work now seems wilfully ugly.... more

Close to the edge: Tate explores dark side of ‘dowdy’ Henry Moore

22.02.10
London’s first major exhibition of the work of Henry Moore in more than two decades aims to 'give the artist back his edge'... more

The status symbol that commanded a king's ransom

05.02.10
A great cry of "Why?" has reverberated round the art world for the past two days, its astonished response to the £58 million bid for a sculpture by Alberto Giacometti... more

Henry Moore arch set to be rebuilt in Kensington Gardens

26.01.10
Magnificent arch by sculptor Henry Moore that was gift to the nation looks set to be re-erected nearly 20 years after it fell into disrepair and was dismantled... more

Breast Berries on trees for Frieze

13.10.09
Contemporary art exhibition begins this week in Regent's Park... more

The day trippers - Perfect places for a London away-day

14.08.09
Liz Hoggard hasn't been on holiday for three years. Instead she's perfected the fine art of the London away-day. Here she describes her ideal weekend... more

Exclusive: Richard Caring's restaurant empire

12.06.09
The restaurant world did not know what had hit it when Richard Caring started buying up London's most revered establishments, including The Ivy, Le Caprice and J Sheekey... more

Ron Arad's art furnishes a room

08.04.09
As you enter Ron Arad's exhibition you may feel you have suddenly entered a freeze frame from the climax of Terminator 2.... more

Leibovitz gives up rights to her life's work for £10m loan

25.02.09
Photographer Annie Leibovitz has borrowed £10 million in exchange for the copyright, negatives and contract rights of her pictures... more

Take shelter at the Tate ... but beware of the massive spider

13.10.08
London is under attack and Tate Modern is the place to turn for safety... more

Christie's opens its doors to 300 years of Brit art and furniture

30.05.08
Some £20 million of British art, including works by JMW Turner, LS Lowry, Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore, has gone on show in London before a string of auctions next week... more

The best places to enjoy Spring in London

17.03.08
Watch ducklings and chicks hatch, stroke baby bunnies, explore the forest and even camp in the open air as Spring arrives in the capital.... more

Scarfe's Yes Minister art on sale

20.02.08
A Gerald Scarfe drawing for the opening titles of the Yes Minister TV series is to go on sale at the 20/21 International Art Fair.... more

Curse of the spider woman

19.10.07
Louise Bourgeois calls her giant arachnid 'Maman'. But her real obsession, revealed at Tate Modern, is Papa, which has given rise to some disturbingly crude, man-hating imagery.... more

500,000 expected for Moore show at Kew Gardens

13.09.07
An exhibition of 28 huge sculptures by Henry Moore opens at Kew Gardens. The show is of a scale never seen in London in a landscape setting.... more

Less is Moore

03.09.07
28 of Henry Moore's later, larger works are being installed in the sylvan setting of Kew Gardens - just as he always wanted.... more

Battle for return of park's Moore bronze

29.05.07
Campaigners are fighting to have a sculpture by Henry Moore returned to a London park where it has stood for nearly 30 years. ... more

Serious fun as Spider-Man 3 weaves new spell

19.04.07
Spider-Man 3 is easily the best of the trilogy and, for Charlotte O'Sullivan's money, one of the most enjoyable films of the decade.... more

Critic's choice: top five exhibitions

05.10.06
Rodin's sculptures, Polynesian artefacts, the works of Lenardo da Vinci and Holbein or a selection of newspaper front pages - which do you fancy?... more

As powerfully poignant as ever

18.09.06
The Imperial War Museum's current Henry Moore exhibition concentrates on his artistic responses to war and proves that his work is as vivid and poignant as ever.... more

Critic's Choice: Top five exhibitions

14.09.06
Henry Moore's war sketches are on display at the Imperial War Museum, and Leonardo Da Vinci's drawings and designs are at the V&A. Click here for the best exhibitions in London.... more

Lively for 60

14.08.06
The Gimpel Fils gallery may have had its heyday in the 1950s but that doesn't stop this gathering of artists old and new feeling and looking as fresh as anything that might tickle your fancy in the more prestigious galleries of East London.... more

Lively for 60

01.08.06
The Gimpel Fils gallery had its heyday in the 1950s but that doesn't stop this gathering of artists feeling and looking as fresh as anything that might tickle your fancy in the more prestigious East London galleries.... more


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