At this year's festival, Oscar Humphries finds much to celebrate in the compelling mix of high and low culture - from the cerebral to the headily vacuous... more
Dali and de Meuron in Madrid, Hollywood glitz and
pre-Columbian sculptures in LA and Norman Foster and truffle fries in the Bowery. Embark on a 21st-century grand tour, say Hannah Nathanson and Pandora Sykes... more
When Graham Southern and Harry Blain sold the Haunch of Venison gallery to Christie's they didn't envisage they would be blackballed by the art world. Now they've quit and taken their best artists with them. Sholto Byrnes on the battle of Burlington Gardens... more
Kay Saatchi talks to Liz Hoggard about rebuilding her life post-divorce, family arrangements with ex-husband Charles and how she wants to be a curator rather than a collector of art... more
Women will dominate this year’s BFI London Film Festival as stars led by Julianne Moore, Hilary Swank and Natalie Portman are joined by a record number of female directors... more
Patrick Procktor was a flamboyant, witn society in the 1960s and 1970s. But the artist’s life was blighted by alcohol and jealousy. Gavanndra Hodge paints a portrait of a peacock... more
Nearly everything that happens in London's contemporary art scene has been influenced, if not dictated, by Jay Jopling. From his White Cube HQ, the superdealer brokers sales, spots talent and dreams up sell-out shows... more
Harry Handelsman has taken the Victorian Gothic ruin of St Pancras and transformed it into a grand hotel and luxury flats for the post-loft generation ... more
Damien Hirst has lost his touch and Nicholas Serota is a hero, says the famously secretive Charles Saatchi in a revealing new book in which he answers his critics... more
Two golden boys of the international jet set have descended on N1, bringing with them papier-mâché pigs, giant magnets and a comet's tail of luminaries... more
A victim of disgraced Wall Street financier Bernie Madoff sold his Picasso painting for nearly £10million at Christie's Impressionist and Modern Art auction in New York, helping to revive the ailing art market... more
Bryan Adams has won back the heart of Elle "The Body" Macpherson after the couple spent an intimate evening together last night. The supermodel watched like a pie-eyed puppy dog as Bryan performed an acoustic set at a church in London's Piccadilly. Later, the pair went back to his mansion just off Sloane Square... more
Artist and director Julian Schnabel tells Tom Dawson how a magazine editor's stroke led him to make his Oscar-nominated movie, The Diving Bell And The Butterfly.... more
British stars Daniel Day-Lewis and Julie Christie move closer to Oscars glory after confirming predictions they would make the nominations list.... more
Romanian film 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days won the Palme d'Or at Cannes - but Brit flick Control, about Joy Division's Ian Curtis, got a special mention.... more
Festival juries usually give prizes to worthy subject matter rather than style. But French film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly has both. A shoo-in for a prize of some sort.... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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