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Why London is filling up with towers of piffle

27.10.09

Mayors and towers go together like Richard and Judy, or The X Factor's excruciating twins, John and Edward. They are mutually reinforcing, each one helping the other to look and feel good... more

Serpentine boss tops art's power list as Hirst tumbles

15.10.09

Joint head of the Serpentine Gallery named the most powerful person in the global art market... more

Work on extension 'will start next year'

17.09.09

The Tate intends to start building its giant Bankside Gallery extension next year... more

Tate gallery�s �100m bonanza despite recession

17.09.09

The Tate is defying the recession thanks to an astonishing series of gifts and bequests, it was revealed... more

Confessions of an art collector

01.09.09

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

Not so grand designs

23.07.09

The influential critic Roger Fry set up the Omega Workshops to apply his ideas about art to everyday objects � but the Bloomsbury artists he employed were woeful craftsmen... more

Introducing... a new Gormley

19.06.09

About a sculptor: Nick Hornby's career hits fever pitch... more

I was wrong, Charles � you have done us all a service

28.05.09

One of Charles Saatchi's fiercest critics now believes his former b�te noire deserves a knighthood for bringing the latest international art to London...... more

Tate pyramid gets green light

01.04.09

A �215 million extension to Tate Modern has been granted planning permission... more

Pyramid on the Thames: Tate Modern's 'unique' extension gets the go-ahead

27.03.09

A �215 million extension to make Tate Modern one of the most astonishing public buildings in the world is to be given the go-ahead... more

London's week in the spotlight

27.03.09

The G20 Summit in London next week is an extra-ordinary moment for the capital... more

Look what they�ve done to the Whitechapel

24.03.09

Two weeks before it reopens, our critic takes the first look at the East End gallery�s impressive �13.5 million expansion ... more

Rooms with a view, nation's chance to see �125m art donation

22.01.09

The first artworks from the �125 million collection donated to the nation by London dealer Anthony d'Offay will go on show this spring... more

Pupils call for more freedom 'to be creative'

26.11.08

Pupils want less formality and more internet in schools to help increase the country's creativity... more

Thank you, Mr Saatchi

10.10.08

We should be grateful for the opening show of the collector's new gallery � it illustrates the true mediocrity of contemporary Chinese art.... more

Art & design

08.10.08

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

20 years on, celebrating the work of the not so Young British Artists

31.07.08

A new exhibition in Covent Garden celebrates the achievements of the influential Young British Artists... more

First view: a new angle to the Tate Modern extension

18.07.08

A plan for a glass ziggurat to house the £215 million extension to the Tate Modern has been dropped... more

Happy 40th to art's concrete bunker

09.07.08

Luminaries of the art world will flock to the South Bank tonight to celebrate an institution they love - even if the paying public has always been more cautious... more

Arts world backs Rego in fight to save her studio

27.06.08

Leading figures in the arts world are rallying to save the back-street Camden Town studio of acclaimed artist Paula Rego... more

Tate mounts Cy Twombly retrospective

17.06.08

The first major exhibition of the American artist Cy Twombly for 15 years opens at Tate Modern this week to mark his 80th birthday... more

Museum chiefs want tax deals to boost donations by public

25.04.08

A campaign by leading museum and gallery directors for greater charitable giving is being backed by the Tories... more

We need a new culture of giving, say arts bosses

25.04.08

Museum and gallery directors are launching a campaign to encourage greater charitable giving... more

Great art isn�t created

11.04.08

Politicians are good for nothing and the art market has gone mad, says David Hockney � but that�s not why he gave his largest canvas to the Tate.... more

�100m art gift is the greatest since the Tate was founded

27.02.08

London dealer Anthony d'Offay has sold art worth more than £125 million to the nation for the £26.5 million it originally cost him... more

So where are the masterpieces?

08.05.07

Rather than keep its few great works of art permanently on view, the latest UBS-sponsored rehang at Tate Modern simply shuffles the rag, tag and bobtail of the collection.... more

Tate Modern pyramid scheme wins approval

28.03.07

Designs for a controversial extension to Tate Modern have been given the go-ahead.... more

Tate boss is art's power player

13.10.06

A newly-published list makes Tate director Nicholas Serota the most powerful Brit in the art world, beating both Charles Saatchi and Damien Hirst.... more

They have memorably dismissed the BritArt establishment as "pants". Now the Stuckists - the collective of figurative painters opposed to conceptual art - have become major players themselves with a new exhibition in the West End.... more