The recent work on display at Tate Modern's major retrospective shows that at 80, Richter is at the peak of his powers in both his expressive abstracts and his hyper-realistic paintings from photographs... more
The results of one collector's passion may be random but the wild scenes make for a ravishing display in Forests, Rocks, Torrents: Norwegian and Swiss Landscape Paintings from the Lunde Collection... more
Campaigners for a memorial to the estimated 55,000 airmen of Bomber Command who died during the Second World War reject a call from the Mayor of Dresden that the scheme be dropped... more
GlaxoSmithKline announced it had started to dispatch its swine flu vaccine around the world and said it has received contracts for 440 million doses of its pandemic vaccine ... more
The family of Sir Winston Churchill today described as "offensive and disgusting" a decision by the BNP to use his image in a party election broadcast... more
The family of Sir Winston Churchill described a decision by the BNP to use his image in a party election broadcast as "offensive and disgusting"... more
Canaletto may have spent nearly a decade in the capital but a new exhibition in Dulwich reveals that it never inspired him as much as Venice, says Brian Sewell.... more
The Mayor of Tower Hamlets defeated Labour to be elected. Livingstone not only backed him but some of Ken's key players are now at the heart of running the council. Stephen Robinson reports
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