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Station master: Harry Handelsman

04.09.09

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

Merce, the great adventurer of modern dance, dies aged 90

28.07.09

Merce Cunningham, the avant-garde dancer and choreographer who revolutionised modern dance, has died at the age of 90... more

Germany's artists in exile

20.01.09

Work made in Britain by artists who fled the Nazis has gone on show in London... more

Sense of humour in Dance Umbrella

01.10.08

It's fitting that Merce Cunningham should open Dance Umbrella. The veteran innovator was ever inspiration to the annual dance event.... more

Oh! What a lovely Cold War exhibition

19.09.08

Art and design, displayed with coherence and humour, throw new light on a dark era for the Cold War Modern: Design exhibition.... more

Twombling Free

20.06.08

A marvellous retrospective at the Tate Modern unravels the career of an American who mounted a mind-blowing assault on the act of painting, explains Ben Lewis... 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

Bacon hailed the new Picasso as triptych sets �43m record

15.05.08

A Francis Bacon masterpiece has sold for £43 million, smashing the record price for a contemporary artwork... more

V&A lifts curtain on Cold War spectacular

21.04.08

A new blockbuster show at the Victoria and Albert Museum will feature space-age designs of the Cold War including the first photographs of earth taken from space.... more

Perfect art for today

08.04.08

Contemporary art doesn't get more culturally relevant or psychologically honest than at the Isa Genzken exhibition, says Ben Lewis.... more

The grand pops of art

10.10.07

The biggest gathering of Pop Art pioneers since the Sixties met for the opening of the first exhibition devoted to their portraits.... more

Royal Academy prepares eye-opening summer show

05.06.07

This year's line-up for The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition pits the grand old men of international art with some bright young things... more

Pop Art tribute at National Portrait Gallery

23.05.07

A new exhibition of Pop Art is set to reunite several important paintings originally shown in a tribute to Marilyn Monroe 40 years ago, including Andy Warhol's famous series of screenprints.... more

Rosco raises record �36.8m

16.05.07

A Mark Rothko abstract painting became the most expensive work of post-war art sold at auction when it went for $72.8 million (£36.8 million ) at Sotheby's in New York. ... more

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