Seventy years before Peter Doig even thought of producing his first richly embroidered landscape, Canadian painters had set the standard for him... more
A wild and self-destructive genius, Gauguin is now notorious for his sexual appetite for island girls — but his paintings remain things of force and mystery... more
A relic of the society calendar, the Royal Academy’s annual show of the work of Sunday painters and professional chancers has turned into a jumble sale of trash and trivia... more
A new exhibition celebrates the Viennese coffee houses where Mahler, Strauss and Schnitzler would exchange ideas. If only there were a modern London equivalent... more
The historic Café Royal in Regent Street, where Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley were once regulars, is to be transformed into a 160-bedroom five-star hotel... more
Some £20 million of British art, including works by JMW Turner, LS Lowry, Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore, has gone on show in London before a string of auctions next week... more
What a pity the British Orientalists — on show at Tate Britain from next week — shied away from the sex and sadism that other European painters revelled in.... more
The Imperial War Museum's latest exhibition, For Your Eyes Only, shows to what extent the adventures of 007 James Bond were based on the life of his creator, Ian Fleming.... more
Once a forum for energetic and inspired young painters, the BP Portrait Award now fosters dull incompetence and a dependency on the camera, says Brian Sewell.... more
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