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Boho Fitzrovia revived with 'arty' boutiques

06.11.09
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Impose a deadline on tax losses

05.11.09
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Not so grand designs

23.07.09
The influential critic Roger Fry set up the Omega Workshops to apply his ideas about art to everyday objects — but the Bloomsbury artists he employed were woeful craftsmen... more

Topolski art underneath the arches

17.03.09
The Topolski Century tells the story of the 20th century as you've never been told it before but you may need a guided tour to get the most from it. ... more

Cherish the Victorians' style and vision - but don't forget their slums

06.03.09
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Dissident who killed author in Hampstead is jailed for life

29.01.09
A Chinese-born dissident was jailed for a minimum of 20 years for beating an 86-year-old author to death, after a historic Old Bailey trial partly held in secret... more

ID conman guilty of killing frail author

16.01.09
A Chinese-born conman has been convicted of murdering a prize-winning author to steal his wealth... more

Mendelssohn, the lost master

18.12.08
In a bumper year for anniversaries, a composer once judged equal to Beethoven and Bach deserves celebration... more

A critique of capitalism, Little Dorritt could not be more relevant

21.10.08
George Bernard Shaw declared Little Dorrit "a more seditious book than Das Kapital"; George Orwell said that "in Little Dorrit, Dickens attacked English institutions with a ferocity that has never since been approached". This Sunday the BBC kicks off its 14-part adaptation of the Charles Dickens story adapted for the screen by Andrew Davies. ... 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

Il Trovatore not dampened by weather

04.06.08
There may have been gipsy curses on the weather but Il Trovatore stormed to success in its opening night at Opera Holland Park.... more

A monster of his prurient time

16.05.08
New exhibition Jack the Ripper and the East End tempers press and police material with videos of contemporary talking heads discussing prostitution, poverty and murder.... more

Cutting, witty and ready for action

07.05.08
After a moving revival of St Joan and an effective staging of the caustic but problematic Major Barbara, George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion comes to town.... more

Can sex addict and reformed junkie Russell Brand conquer America (and can America cope with him)?

25.04.08
Sex addict. Reformed junkie. Self-confessed egomaniac. How will Britain's most notorious funnyman get on as he tries to conquer Hollywood? He was unknown in America until a few weeks ago, but with the release of Russell Brand's new film Forgetting Sarah Marshall, all that has changed.... more

How romance blossomed among the silent readers

22.04.08
Lady Antonia Fraser complains that the British Library Reading Room has become overrun by undergraduates who are hogging all the desks. Her fellow historian Tristram Hunt bemoans the fact it is now a "groovy place" to meet for a frappuccino. Many feared that when the old Reading Room closed, the British Library would lose its charm. Far from it. It has become more fashionable than ever as a social venue... more

British Library like a branch of Starbooks say the literati

21.04.08
Prominent authors have complained that two the British Library's Reading Room has been overtaken by frappuccino drinking students giggling with their friends, playing on laptops and texting their mates.... more

The National's treasure

04.03.08
Simon Russell Beale, the average-looking actor with an above average amount of talent, talks to Claire Allfree about getting to the emotional core of the characters he plays.... more

The hottest tickets for the year ahead

04.01.08
From Kylie Minogue and masterpieces of Impressionism to an invasion of Chinese dance companies, the next 12 months will be a treat for London's arts lovers.... more

From Shameless to National treasure

27.11.07
Anne-Marie Duff claims she was 'the runt of the year' at drama school - but now she has picked up the Evening Standard Best Actress prize for her astonishing portrayal of Saint Joan.... more

'I want people to see what violence does'

26.10.07
Director David Cronenberg is not apologising for the extreme brutality in his controversial Russian-gangster film Eastern Promises.... more

Heartbreak at the mad captain's House

27.03.07
The cast of Indhu Rubasingham's perfectly decent revival of George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House struggle as characters move from comic types to wider significance.... more

Gunning for ideological purity

23.10.06
George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara is well revived at the Orange Tree and the audience never feels far from murderous gunfire in Sam Walters's production.... more

Aliens living in London

13.09.06
Despite his limited palette and deliberately banal subject matter, photographer Emil Otto Hoppé can and does manage to extract drama from the mundane, says Nina Caplan.... more

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