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Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and The Group of Seven, Dulwich Picture Gallery - review

20.10.11
Seventy years before Peter Doig even thought of producing his first richly embroidered landscape, Canadian painters had set the standard for him... more

Art pass will offer free gallery entry and buy new masterpieces

13.04.11
Thousands more people are to be encouraged to try Britain's museums and galleries with a new National Art Pass which will also help buy masterpieces for the nation ... more

Norman Rockwell's American dram machine

16.12.10
Norman Rockwell diligently churned out magazine covers for half a century, combining meticulous attention to detail with hokey sentimentality... more

Norman Rockwell paintings finally arrive

14.12.10
Dulwich Picture Gallery is hosting the first British exhibition of the original works of Norman Rockwell, modern America’s best-loved illustrator... more

A masterpiece a month as the world’s finest galleries lend works to Dulwich

02.12.10
World's top galleries are lending masterpieces by artists from Velazquez and Vermeer to Rembrandt and David Hockney to help the Dulwich Picture Gallery mark its 200th anniversary next year... more

Different strokes from Andrew Wyeth

15.07.10
Andrew Wyeth’s bleak nature paintings bring to London the romantic myth of the solitary American — but the accompanying works of his father and son merely show that talent doesn’t run in the family.... more

Magic melancholy from Paul Nash

08.04.10
Paul Nash is revered as a war artist — but a spring scene, purchased by the Queen Mother, proves he was also a masterful painter of the English landscape... more

What's on at the cinema and theatre this Easter?

23.03.10
With a host of blockbusters now out, and others coming soon, Damon Smith selects some big-screen holiday highlights... more

Islington pub hopes to toast ‘green Oscar’

20.01.10
Gastropub which was the first in Britain to go organic is tipped to win one of London’s 'green Oscars'... more

Prince Charles honours hedge fund couple who saved gallery

25.11.09
Couple who rescued Wandsworth Museum from closure with more than £2million of help are among five recipients of the Prince of Wales medal for arts philanthropy... more

Sickert in Venice as you've never seen it before

06.03.09
While other artists gloried in the city of Venice's light, Sickert skulked in the shadows, painting gloomy views and prostitutes.... more

Altarpiece back together after 200 years

10.02.09
Four parts of an Italian altarpiece cut up and dispersed more than 200 years ago have been reunited at Dulwich Picture Gallery... more

Keeping it real with Kennington Kids

14.01.09
After a successful run at the Portland Gallery and Dulwich Picture Gallery Kennington Kids: Raw Urban is taking over City Hall.... more

Smaller art galleries paint bright picture as visitors rise

20.11.08
Smaller art galleries in London have recorded a dramatic increase in visitors... more

Guessing games as stars make self-portraits

10.09.08
Forty writers, actors, musicians and artists, from Eric Clapton to Joanna Lumley, have produced an unusual self-portrait for an exhibition opening... more

Meet the De Brays

01.08.08
Enjoyable, useful, purposeful - Dulwich Picture Gallery's survey of a 17th-century family of Dutch painters is the model for others to follow, says Brian Sewell.... more

Roll up, roll up

28.03.08
Dulwich Gallery’s survey of 100 years of American painting is a confidence trick, a parade of very modest pictures, says Brian Sewell.... more

Coming of Age

18.03.08
Telling the tale of how American artists chose to free themselves, this collection has unexpected twists, says Fisun Guner.... more

Too nasty for the nursery

30.11.07
The Yuletide exhibition at Dulwich Gallery, usually addressed to children, Age of Enchantment, has fallen under a malicious spell this year.... more

Smaller art galleries show their best assets

21.11.07
Some of the smaller gems among London's treasure-house of art galleries are attracting record numbers of visitors.... more

Childhood exhibition

20.08.07
There are a few good pictures and a few too many bad ones at the exhibition, The Changing Face Of Childhood.... more

Little Masters and Misses

03.08.07
In attempting to trace the evolution of children's portraiture from the 17th to the 19th century the German curated exhibtion at the Dulwich Picture Gallery falls short.... more

Childhood's changing face captured by masters

31.07.07
Childhood is the theme of an exhibition of works by great British painters to show how views of children have developed over the centuries.... more

Fabulous faces

21.05.07
Dulwich Gallery has scored a coup with its new show of artists' self portraits from the Uffizi's sublime collection, says Brian Sewell.... more

Mesmerising view reserved for members only

25.04.07
The most mesmerising view of London is reserved for employees of the offices at 30 St Mary Axe, their guests and those willing to spend £1,000 to become an individual "member".... more

Critic's choice: Top 5 exhibitions

11.04.07
East meets West in the A Slap in the Face! exhibition, the V&A traces the influence of surrealism on design and Camouflage takes us from the battlefield to the catwalk.... more

Critic's choice: top five exhibitions

08.03.07
Canaletto, Renoir and Gilbert & George are among the exhibitions well worth catching in the capital this week.... 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

Genius on a small scale

04.09.06
Adam Elsheimer painted very small pictures and died when he was 32 but, as the new exhibition at the Dulwich Gallery will show, his influence was felt throughout Europe.... more


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