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Artists and writers team up for poetry marathon

16.10.09

Artists including Gilbert and George and Tracey Emin will reveal their poetic soul in a two-day marathon at the Serpentine Gallery... 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

New order emerges in Classified's Britart

09.07.09

Classified works well as a top 20 of British art of the past 10 years or so.... more

25 reasons to go to The Edinburgh Festival

01.07.09

After last year's letdown, the world's largest arts festival has got its act together to offer a thrilling array of entertainment next month.... more

Wit and intellect from The Russian Linesman

18.02.09

The Russian Linesman shows that conceptual art's themes of social hierarchies and cultural assumptions go back centuries.... more

Tate unveils new faces of art

02.02.09

The fourth Tate triennial is a snapshot of art in Britain... more

Best Art Shows of 2009

09.01.09

The art market may be reeling in the face of recession but there will still be plenty of exciting shows this year. Ben Lewis rounds up the best.... 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

Three females and one male on Turner Prize shortlist

13.05.08

Female artists make the strongest showing in a decade in the Turner Prize shortlist... more

Portraits of Shanghai

15.01.08

Sarah Beddington's slow film, Shanghai Moon, uses four screens but at over an hour long, can have the viewer drifting off.... more

English sensibility dominates seductive show

07.01.08

Steven Claydon's show has a Surrealist influence, but it's one that is British and often whimsical in flavour.... 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

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