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The over-40s are stealing my golden years

12.11.09
First it was our money, now it's our men. Not content with saddling us twentysomethings with mountains of public debt, the over-40s have started pinching our boyfriends too... more

The paint's the thing for Frank Auerbach

05.11.09
Frank Auerbach's thickly textured depictions of post-war building sites turned painting into a three-dimensional art.... more

Ivor Braka: a rock 'n' roll art dealer

23.10.09
By day, he sells work by Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud for millions of pounds; by night, he parties with Jerry Hall and Stella McCartney. Godfrey Barker meets Ivor Braka, London's favourite rebel aesthete... more

The constant painter: a rare interview with Frank Auerbach

10.09.09
In a rare interview, grand old man of British art Frank Auerbach talks about his agonising search for perfection, 18-hour days in his Camden studio — and why he’ll never give up... more

Inside Paula Rego's madhouse

06.08.09
At her Kentish Town studio, the Portuguese-born painter, the subject of a searching new film by her friend Jake Auerbach, talks candidly about her troubled life, her extraordinary art — and her fear of insanity... more

Elizabeth Peyton is pin-up painter

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? ... more

Whitechapel Gallery is reinvented

03.04.09
What makes the new Whitechapel interesting is the art it is showing and the concept behind the gallery’s expansion.... more

Sex in Venice ... the making of Sickert

03.03.09
Paintings produced during Walter Sickert's life-changing visit to Venice have been brought together for the first time... more

Britpack artists campaign to save the £50m Titian

10.11.08
Britain's leading artists will deliver a letter to the Prime Minister in a bid to save a £50 million Renaissance painting for the nation... more

Arts world backs Rego in fight to save her studio

27.06.08
Leading figures in the arts world are rallying to save the back-street Camden Town studio of acclaimed artist Paula Rego... more

Nice little Turner for the Tate

23.07.07
How to rebrand Britain's foremost watercolourist for the exhibition-going masses? Why, bring in the genre's most recent celebrity convert, David Hockney of course, says Brian Sewell.... more

Freud painting of friend set to make £5.5m

03.05.07
A portrait by Lucian Freud is expected to set a record for the sale of one of his works.... more

£5m splashed out on a Canoe at record sale

08.02.07
A Sotheby's sale of modern art in London has made a record-breaking £45.8 million with thirteen works sold for more than a million pounds each. ... more

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