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Sporting Miscellanies

26.10.09
What is it with the most austere of our sporting heroes and musical theatre?... more

Putting Small Island on the big screen

21.10.09
The adaptation of Andrea Levy’s bestselling novel Small Island has been a personal crusade, says producer Vicky Licorish.... more

The cubist: how Jay Jopling created the artist as superstar

16.10.09
Nearly everything that happens in London's contemporary art scene has been influenced, if not dictated, by Jay Jopling. From his White Cube HQ, the superdealer brokers sales, spots talent and dreams up sell-out shows... more

Collage at the cutting edge

18.08.09
One day the Hayward or the Tate will mount a mammoth exhibition on the history of collage. Until then, this show serves as a dress rehearsal... more

Gilbert & George the jokers

07.07.09
On the eve of their new show, the eccentric artists talk about Union Jacks, dangerous literature and the Take That Christmas annual.... more

Take a walk on the tame side with Richard Long

11.06.09
Richard Long made an art form out of rambling but, his beautiful “walks of art” lose some of their magic at Tate Britain.... more

Jesus and an unholy Union Flag

11.05.09
Gilbert and George dress Christ in a flag as they explore religion and patriotism in a major new exhibition... more

Rooms with a view, nation's chance to see £125m art donation

22.01.09
The first artworks from the £125 million collection donated to the nation by London dealer Anthony d'Offay will go on show this spring... more

Hats off to men in ... hats

19.12.08
From fedoras to flat caps and trilbies to toppers — even David Beckham can see that a man isn’t dressed without one ... more

Starring role for landlady who became queen of the art scene

17.04.08
A pub landlady described as one of the most influential figures on London's art scene will become a star of the screen at this year's East End Film Festival... more

Starring role for landlady who became queen of the art scene

17.04.08
Golden Heart Landlady Sandra Esqulant is set to become star of the screen at this year's East End Film Festival.... more

St Martins up for sale at £60m

17.04.08
The buildings where the Sex Pistols played their first gig, fashion designer John Galliano honed his cutting skills and artists Gilbert and George first met are up for sale... more

Sotheby's auction smashes art record

28.02.08
Sotheby's is celebrating a record-breaking auction which saw artwork from Francis Bacon to Gilbert and George total more than £95 million... 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

These pirates have real swagger

20.02.08
An inventive cast and superb and zesty music makes the Pirates of Penzance good enough to make the sceptics smile.... more

Far from peerless

13.02.08
The words were unclear to the point of slopiness in Iolanthe and professionals must stop thinking amateur levels of performance will suffice.... 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

You've been punked

05.06.07
An exhilarating, never-nostalgic show, Panic Attack! explores artists' reactions to the punk age.... more

Film festival to showcase art of East End

17.04.07
The East End Film Festival returns on 19 April with a series of new films, workshops and performances reflecting East London's diversity and contribution to art.... more

Art's rude boys

19.02.07
Gilbert and George may cast themselves as heavenly bodies but their vision at Tate Modern is one of an adolescent hell awash with bodily fluids, says Brian Sewell.... more

Gilbert & George take on the Tate

13.02.07
Gilbert & George, subverters of the art world for 40 years, are taking over Tate Modern.... more

Gilbert and George's Eastenders

31.01.07
For the art-scene pioneers, home for the past 40 years has been the streets around Brick Lane, with their curry houses and characters. Here they explain why the area has so inspired them.... more

The art of the Evening Standard billboard

31.01.07
Gilbert and George have an archive of 2,500 newspaper bills, mostly from the Evening Standard, which have been used in their new series of "bomb" pictures.... more

Pirates' thud and blunder

03.01.07
Much was expected of Chris Monks' re-imagining of The Pirates of Penzance but a mindless concept makes this show one to be missed.... more

White Cube goes west with gallery in St James's

27.09.06
London's modern White Cube gallery, the place Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and Gilbert and George all call home, is unveiling a second £12 million branch in the West End.... more

Shock of the old in new Gilbert and George show

04.09.06
A retrospective exhibition devoted to Gilbert and George, a duo who have been the London art scene's most subversive exponents for four decades, will be held at Tate Modern next year.... more

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