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London's artists: the West way

16.10.09
London's artists run in packs: in West London studios range from a disused gas works to an artists' commune and a charity-run studio complex... more

Poor Picasso

27.02.09
Picasso is not served well by the National Gallery's new show but there are enough thrilling pictures to make it worthwhile.... more

Flowing blonde on cello in Brodsky Quartet

30.10.08
The Brodsky Quartet play with familiar empathy. Three of them have been together since student days nearly three decades ago. ... more

Anyone for café culture?

08.10.08
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

Now for a real art prize

12.09.08
City sponsors have created just what contemporary art needs – the Threadneedle Figurative Prize. Brian Sewell explains more.... more

Café Royal to become five-star hotel in £90m lease

28.08.08
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

Christie's opens its doors to 300 years of Brit art and furniture

30.05.08
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

Lost in the East at Tate Britain

30.05.08
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

Bond makes an exhibition of himself... once again

16.04.08
James Bond fans will be stirred, if not shaken, by the Imperial War Museum's latest exhibition... more

Bond makes an exhibition of himself... once again

16.04.08
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

Little pictures for little patrons

15.02.08
The late Edwardian painters of Camden Town, currently at Tate Britain, aspired to provide low-cost art for ordinary people, says Brian Sewell.... more

England's first Bohemian

12.11.07
In his obsessive series of the prostitutes of Camden, Walter Sickert shocks with his brute honesty, says Brian Sewell.... more

How Pop changed the portrait

19.10.07
Pop Art Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery is a well-chosen and spirited show that occasionally falls victim to its own enthusiasm.... more

A piece of Italy in the capital

23.07.07
La Cantina is as Italian as Pavarotti and mozzarella and as corny as Kansas - but utterly charming, says Mark Bolland.... more

How ugly can the faces get?

25.06.07
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

Let the Welsh pay for their own gallery

15.01.07
The principality has put a ragbag of its pictures briefly on show at Christie's - and brought the begging bowls too, says Brian Sewell.... more

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