This first UK solo exhibition of David Askevold's work reflects an intriguing artistic legacy, with roots in conceptual art and dark, occasionally haunting thematic undertones... more
Feature: He was one of our greatest painters, a charismatic man who danced with Greta Garbo, sired at least 12 children, cared nothing for money, was fêted by high society but put his art before all else... more
Lucian Freud gives a rare interview about dancing with Greta Garbo, photographing Adolf Hitler, getting into debt with the Krays and being kept waiting by Kate Moss... more
Mad as a hatter, driven to suicide by the failure of his genius, the real Vincent Van Gogh remains elusive in the Royal Academy’s first London show of his work for 40 years... more
You didn't have to be mad to live there but it helped in turn-of-the-century Vienna, where revolutions in art and psychiatry produced extraordinary paintings.
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Sir Clement Freud, whose eclectic career as a broadcaster, writer, politician and celebrity chef marked him out as a much-loved British institution, has died at the age of 84... more
London has recently underlined its status as the global capital of contemporary art. These are the key players in the world’s most exciting market. ... more
A new exhibition celebrates the Viennese coffee houses where Mahler, Strauss and Schnitzler would exchange ideas. If only there were a modern London equivalent... more
It is Satan, played by Douglas Henshall, as a Gucci-clad, all-knowing lounge lizard, who has the best lines in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, says Patrick Worthington.... more
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, by promising American playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis, is a divinely amusing and unconventional comedy which poses hard questions regarding religion.... more
The cast, venue and subject matter of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot make it difficult to fault. You could even rub shoulders with an Oscar-winning actor at the show - literally. ... more
Although The Vertical Hour is reinforced by superb, emotionally charged performances, Nicholas de Jongh was left surprised by the cursory arguments about the invasion of Iraq.... more
It looks like a surreal scientific experiment being conducted on household appliances but it is in fact the latest sculpture from the Chapman Brothers.... more
While much of the new show Paranoia consists of second-hand meditations on the War on Terror, its more oblique works have resonance, says Nick Hackworth.... more
Leonor Watling looks both provocative and demure in Unconscious. Alas, nothing else in this arch Spanish farce is half as foxy, or foxing, says Charlotte O'Sullivan.... more
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