Gary Cohn, president and chief operating officer of Goldman Sachs, was asked last year by the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission in the US whether the investment bank had used overnight loans from the Federal Reserve. ... more
With his Shard of Glass and Central St Giles, Renzo Piano is bringing about the biggest change to London’s skyline since the Blitz — but is it time for him to come down to earth?... more
Paris is hosting its first major show of the work of Britain’s most expensive living painter — so what do the French make of all those naked bodies in their ordinary unloveliness?
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Lucian Freud gives a rare interview about dancing with Greta Garbo, photographing Adolf Hitler, getting into debt with the Krays and being kept waiting by Kate Moss... more
Extraordinary row between Boris Johnson and one of the world's leading architects led to resignation over controversial Chelsea Barracks redevelopment... more
It's been another mixed week for Lord Rogers. His practice has won the Stirling Prize for the Maggie's cancer care centre in Hammersmith. At the same time his lawyers are chasing £2 million of fees they say he is still owed by developers Qatari Diar following the abandonment of the Rogers-designed redevelopment of Chelsea Barracks.... more
As London’s biggest contemporary art fair opens its doors, Alastair McKay asks conceptual artist Michael Elmgreen to help him make sense of the mountain of work on show and select his highlights... more
Natalia Vodianova escaped inner-city Russia for an English country idyll complete with three children, a devoted husband and the occasional glossy fashion shoot. But she hasn’t forgotten the hardships of her early life, she tells Marianne Macdonald... more
Comedienne Victoria Wood, TV presenter Paul O'Grady, Eastenders actress June Brown, broadcaster Joan Bakewell, screenwriter Lynda LaPlante and entertainer Des O'Connor are all receiving birthday honours from the Queen... more
The Terracotta Army exhibition made the British Museum the second most visited in the world. London is a modern city, says director Neil MacGregor, and we try to reflect that.... more
It's more than 15 years since Sharon Stone set pulses racing in that Basic Instinct scene, but yesterday she proved the infamous move is still second nature. Thankfully the actress, who turned 50 last month, showed a hint more constraint than her former alter ego Catherine Tramell as she addressed the audience at the Sorbonne university in Paris yesterday. The AIDs campaigner was attending the Cité de La Réussite - a forum, held every year in France, debates topics from culture, the economy, philosophy and politics
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Lord Rogers launched a scathing attack on modern British architecture as he was announced the winner of the industry's most prestigious honour.... more
Tony Blair hailed Britain's "golden age" of the arts today as he revealed London now rivals New York and Paris in numbers of visitors to galleries, museums and theatre.... more
Portal is the restaurant said to be favoured by Jose Mourinho where a bug was recently discovered. But the Portuguese bistro deserves recognition for more than listening devices, says Toby Young.... more
The Mayor of Tower Hamlets defeated Labour to be elected. Livingstone not only backed him but some of Ken's key players are now at the heart of running the council. Stephen Robinson reports
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