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Georgia May Jagger on her rock 'n' roll life

25.03.11
At just 19, Mick and Jerry's youngest daughter has already conquered the fashion world, and now she's dead set on becoming the next Lucian Freud... more

Valentine's Day in London for free

11.02.11
The expense of Valentine's Day can be off putting, so here are a few free suggestions for London's romantics... more

Meet the godparents of Elton John's new baby

12.01.11
Nick Curtis profiles the lesbian New York duo chosen by Elton and David to be at the font with baby Zachary... more

The enchanting magic of a New York Christmas

17.12.10
Temperatures plummet in the Big Apple — but at least there’s ballet in Brooklyn and Patti Smith in the Bowery... more

Who framed Ekow Eschun?

19.11.10
The role of executive director of the ICA should have been Ekow Eshun's dream job. But after a campaign of vitriol and backstabbing, he's giving up. He tells Godfrey Barker about the ruthless politics of the art world... more

Clémence Poésy: the hottie of Hogwarts

29.10.10
Having cast a spell over the whole of Hogwarts in the Harry Potter films, Clémence Poésy has graduated to bewitching fashion designers and film directors. She's magic, says Hermione Eyre ... more

Four years out of the limelight, but Scissor Sisters can still cut it

23.06.10
They may have been away for four years, a century in pop music, but how could we forget the Scissor Sisters?... more

Watching you watching us at Tate Modern

04.05.10
Tate Modern makes photography the rare focus of its next show to question the role of cameras, surveillance and voyeurism in today’s world... more

Patti Smith learns to enjoy herself

22.03.10
Once the mother hen of po-faced poets, Patti Smith’s bus-pass years have seen her develop the rare gift of being playful and funny.... more

A brush with Caravaggio's Rome

03.03.10
As a major Caravaggio exhibition opens, Jo Fernández explores the Eternal City, where so much of the artist’s work is held... more

Shocking, sensual symbolism from Robert Mapplethorpe

14.10.09
Robert Mapplethorpe's exhibition mixes surprisingly tender moments with the sensual erotic and hardcore.... more

Patti Smith's poems sap the spirit

19.06.09
In full poet mode, Patti Smith adapted favourite songs including Piss Factory and People Have The Power.... more

Helmut Newton’s double standards are our own

12.05.09
The work of Helmut Newton, on show from Thursday at Hamiltons gallery, remains what could best be euphemistically termed, right on the edge... more

Street cred on camera

27.05.08
Street & Studio represents the contradictions within photography, where even a lavatory is a studio and we are all photographers and models.... more

All eyes on East End Film Festival 2008

08.04.08
Screening large independent releases and providing a platform for new talent, the East End Film Festival is proud of its diversity. Our guide fills you in on the not to be missed events.... 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

Sexy art that fails to titillate

25.10.07
The Seduced exhibition at the Barbican may sound like a right goer, but prepare to be disappointed, says Nick Curtis.... more

Pornography for the prude

12.10.07
It is daft to restrict the Barbican's new exhibition, Seduced, to over-18s, says Brian Sewell.... more

Barbican show is posing a most seductive question

10.10.07
The Barbican has insisted their Seduced exhibition, a new survey of 2,000 years of sex in art, is a most serious academic show.... more

£35,000 for snap of an old Stone

14.11.06
A photograph of Keith Richards is expected to make up to £35,000 when it goes under the hammer.... more

Boys on film

31.10.06
The unique, two-decade story of the Pet Shop Boys is told at the National Portrait Gallery and the exhibition is bizarre, ironic, silly, and always detached. ... more

Take me out...

14.09.06
Here's our round-up of the weekend's events, including a bonfire of the vanities, an exhibitions of iconic Patti Smith snaps and the novel opening of a new gastropub-cum-disco...... more

Shock tactics falter

12.09.06
Mapplethorpe's technically brilliant and coolly beautiful photographs took homoerotica out of the sex shop and into the art gallery. This show, however, doesn't show him in the greatest light.... more

Punk poet finds her Valentine

12.09.06
Odd couple Patti Smith and Kevin Shields clicked when they improvised at last year's Meltdown festival. Now they are back to record their collaboration in front of a live audience.... more

Critic's Choice: Rock

11.09.06
Patti Smith and Kevin Shields, of My Bloody Valentine and Primal Scream, are rekindling the partnership formed at the Meltdown festival last year, in order to record their music live on stage.... more


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