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Through the keyhole of London's most upmarket squats

01.04.11
With high-profile activists taking over Guy Ritchie and Gadaffi Jr's mansions, it's no wonder squatting is one of the hottest topics in Westminster... more

Once in a lifetime V&A show brings back look of 80s

28.02.11
The style of Grace Jones, Talking Heads and New Order will feature in the autumn blockbuster at the Victoria and Albert Museum ... more

The posh are people too in Archipelago

22.02.11
With Archipelago, director Joanna Hogg has not only created a beautiful film about an upper-middle-class family but, argues David Sexton, she has also invented a new style of British cinema that doesn't caricature class... more

The secret career of Ken Russell

22.06.10
Before he moved into film, the controversial British director was a compassionate photographer. As an exhibition of his scenes of post-war London opens, he takes Sue Steward through his box of memories... more

Tilda Swinton: A love less ordinary

01.04.10
Tilda Swinton insists that her life in the wilds of the Highlands, with a younger lover and free-spirited children, is utterly normal. And her newest film explains the importance of following your heart, wherever it leads... more

Patrick Procktor: The lost dandy

01.04.10
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

Rembrandt revisited in Nightwatching

26.03.10
With gorgeous scene-setting, keen intelligence and great originality, Peter Greenaway tells the story of Rembrandt's fall from grace in Nightwatching.... more

Stop it, Damien Hirst, you're embarrassing yourself

15.10.09
Damien Hirst is nearing his half-century and should have a far higher level of skill than the rough daubing he shows in No Love Lost... more

The London Film School conquers the world

24.07.09
With two films by recent graduates going head-to-head at the prestigious Locarno Festival, Mike Leigh's movie academy is having its best year ever.... more

Luke Fowler's display is lost in a time warp

08.05.09
Luke Fowler is a highly regarded Glaswegian film-maker and musician, with his own record label. But his work is all a bit retro.... more

William Blake the bleak

24.04.09
In its restaging of his 1809 show, Tate Britain hopes for a reassessment of William Blake's wild illusions and gloomy paintings.... more

Tilda's the leading lady at Standard film awards

02.02.09
Tilda Swinton, the striking, idiosyncratic face of British cinema, led the cavalcade of winners at the Evening Standard British Film Awards... more

Watch Woolies - it's the new canvas for our city's next art boom

09.01.09
Just as the derelict warehouses and factories of the 1970s were revitalised, the sites left by Woolworths and others could prove an unexpected bonus of recession... more

Forties screen star

22.09.08
After mentoring from Derek Jarman and a spell in music videos and soaps, 47-year-old Joanna Hogg has directed a feature debut that has made her the darling of the film critics... more

Now for a real art prize

12.09.08
City sponsors have created just what contemporary art needs – the Threadneedle Figurative Prize. Brian Sewell explains more.... more

Hard man's guide to the camp side of fine art

28.03.08
To Dulwich as Pepys might have written in his diary, to see paintings of St Sebastian by Guido Reni, only to be reminded of Ross Kemp... more

Where's the Jarman I knew?

29.02.08
It's a pity that a new exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery all but ignores Derek Jarman's lifelong work as a painter, says Brian Sewell.... more

What a shocker

05.10.07
By limiting itself to winners of the Turner Prize and ignoring all the shortlisted artists, Tate Britain's retrospective misses out on so much of the provocative work of the YBAs.... more

DVDs of the week

07.08.07
Will Ferrell and Jon Heder team up in the brilliant Blades of Glory, and Primal Scream's debut live DVD are among this week's offerings.... more

You've been punked

05.06.07
An exhilarating, never-nostalgic show, Panic Attack! explores artists' reactions to the punk age.... more

Tate catches up on Sleep

24.05.07
To mark the Bank Holiday, Tate Modern will be screening Andy Warhol's first film, Sleep, with Michael Nyman playing the Satie music that inspired it.... more

Tate catches up on Sleep

24.05.07
To mark the Bank Holiday, Tate Modern will be screening Andy Warhol's first film, Sleep, with Michael Nyman playing the Satie music that inspired it.... more

Tate catches up on Sleep

24.05.07
To mark the Bank Holiday, Tate Modern will be screening Andy Warhol's first film, Sleep, with Michael Nyman playing the Satie music that inspired it.... more

Tate catches up on Sleep

24.05.07
To mark the Bank Holiday, Tate Modern will be screening Andy Warhol's first film, Sleep, with Michael Nyman playing the Satie music that inspired it.... more

Tate catches up on Sleep

24.05.07
To mark the Bank Holiday, Tate Modern will be screening Andy Warhol's first film, Sleep, with Michael Nyman playing the Satie music that inspired it.... more

Tate catches up on Sleep

24.05.07
To mark the Bank Holiday, Tate Modern will be screening Andy Warhol's first film, Sleep, with Michael Nyman playing the Satie music that inspired it.... more

Tate catches up on Sleep

24.05.07
To mark the Bank Holiday, Tate Modern will be screening Andy Warhol's first film, Sleep, with Michael Nyman playing the Satie music that inspired it.... more


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