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Due At an airport near you - 3D takes off as fine art

03.10.11
Artists are revelling in their discovery of a new dimension, as Nick Curtis reports... more

5 Pollen Street is just a slow burner

17.02.11
5 Pollen Street looks nothing like The Wolseley or Hotel Costes, it is old-fashioned in the newest possible way... more

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

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

Alice Anderson, the art world's new favourite enigma

25.08.10
For the latest in a series of dramatic installations Alice Anderson has filled the Royal Opera House with her flowing red locks. Ben Luke meets the art world’s new favourite enigma ... more

£4million Brit art sale for charity

15.06.10
Richard Branson's brother-in-law is selling his collection of post-war British art, including works by Antony Gormley and Lucian Freud, to raise money for his charity in Africa... more

Rubbish! Modern art dumped as trash for exhibition Art Bin

28.01.10
Damien Hirst is joined by artists including Tracey Emin and Gary Hume in donating works they deem failures for Michael Landy’s Art Bin... more

Where's the fun of the fair?

13.01.10
The London Art Fair was London's main commercial art fair before Frieze emerged with such success in 2003... more

London's artists: the Eastenders

16.10.09
London's artists run in packs: the Eastenders have studios scattered from Smithfield, to Hackney, to Mile End... more

Picasso's two musketeers: One for almost £7m and all for £15m

18.06.09
Two paintings by Pablo Picasso created on successive days will be sold by rival auction houses for a total upper estimate of £15million this month... more

Wayne's world basks in sunshine for Ignite

15.09.08
You could hear Wayne McGregor and all those involved in Ignite at the Royal Opera House breathe a sigh of relief that the weather was good.... more

ICA scraps admission charge to have a happy 60th birthday

01.09.08
Admission charges at one of London's best-known modern art galleries have been scrapped... more

Defending National Portrait Gallery

10.06.08
Evening Standard art critic Brian Sewell has questioned the point of the National Portrait Gallery. Here its director Sandy Nairne fights back.... more

London's Best Hotel Bars

04.06.08
As The Coburg is named Bar of the Year, Pete Clark toasts the renaissance of civilised drinking and reviews the city's best hotel bars.... more

Off the record

30.05.08
My Morning Jacket perform a gorgeous new song in the back of a cab and the Connaught has a musical makeover.... more

Acid house at the opera house?

01.04.08
Wayne McGregor plays mind games with his dance creations at Sadler's Wells and now he is at the heart of plans to pull the cool crowd into Covent Garden. ... more

Top Opera House tickets hit £210 to pay for lower prices in the gods

19.03.08
Top prices at the Royal Opera House are rising to £210 for the hottest productions featuring stars such as Bryn Terfel... more

The Bear Man

23.10.07
Mark Wallinger talks about dressing up as a bear, losing 30 works in the Momart fire and being favourite for this year's Turner Prize.... more

Take me out: Best weekend events

16.11.06
Resfest - the mobile festival for digital media - returns to the capital, the London Jazz Festival continues and you could buy a Damien Hirst or David Hockney original at the RCA.... more

Snap up an Emin or Hirst with postcard lottery

16.11.06
It's the biggest annual bargain in Britart: the opportunity to buy a work by Damien Hirst or Tracey Emin for just £35.... more


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