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Truth about the sex trade from Edward Kienholz

19.11.09
Edward Kienholz is the forgotten father of installation art - and his evocation of the red light district of Amsterdam captures the truth about the sex trade... more

The paint's the thing for Frank Auerbach

05.11.09
Frank Auerbach's thickly textured depictions of post-war building sites turned painting into a three-dimensional art.... more

Hirst pays £250,000 to revamp the Wallace for his show

13.10.09
Damien Hirst personally funded a £250,000 refurbishment of galleries at the Wallace Collection to display his new work alongside the Old Masters... more

Turner’s masterclass at the Tate

24.09.09
The Damien Hirst of his day, he was celebrated, expensive and ambitious and often pitted himself against the old masters — with results that are as enjoyably bad as good ... more

The big draw: Old Masters v Turner at Tate

21.09.09
World's greatest art collections have lent works not seen in Britain for decades as part of a blockbuster show highlighting JMW Turner's debt to the Old Masters... more

Rembrandt hidden for 40 years could fetch £25million

18.09.09
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Get out of the ghetto and enjoy London’s great art

10.08.09
Merely adding a hip-hop soundtrack to a play won’t solve the more fundamental mindset problem at work... more

Death threats and a stalker — why my security’s worth £25k

29.06.09
In an exclusive interview, Culture Minister Barbara Follett reveals how she has coped with years of hate mail and why she still isn’t sorry about her expenses... more

Garden and Cosmos is in need of perspective

11.06.09
British Imperialism in the 19th century is a subtext of the Garden and Cosmos exhibition at the British Museum.... 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

Money isn't everything, says art dealer who gave $3m sale profit to charity

31.12.08
A leading art dealer has shrugged off the credit crunch by donating 75 per cent of his profits to charity... more

Old Masters to Pop Artists as Tate unveils its blockbusters

03.09.08
Blockbuster shows of works by JMW Turner, Anthony van Dyck and stars of the Pop Art movement are highlights of the new programme at the Tate... more

Meet the De Brays

01.08.08
Enjoyable, useful, purposeful - Dulwich Picture Gallery's survey of a 17th-century family of Dutch painters is the model for others to follow, says Brian Sewell.... more

Doctors and artists, made from the same mould

25.07.08
How odd, I thought, at a gathering of doctors early this week, that they should have about them not the odour of formaldehyde but the air of old and established Royal Academicians, their formality subtly lightened by a hint of flamboyant dash in hair and summer suits... more

City Comment: Pessimism will prevail in end

03.07.08
One of the odd things about the credit crunch so far is that it has affected confidence rather than behaviour... more

Hard man's guide to the camp side of fine art

28.03.08
To Dulwich as Pepys might have written in his diary, to see paintings of St Sebastian by Guido Reni, only to be reminded of Ross Kemp... more

Curiouser and curiouser

14.03.08
The Queen's Gallery's enchanting new show dedicated to the strange wonders of nature is unmissable, says Brian Sewell.... more

Seven wonders of London

14.12.07
Art critic Brian Sewell takes a tour of the capital's greatest art treasures, from Raphael to Rembrandt.... more

Too nasty for the nursery

30.11.07
The Yuletide exhibition at Dulwich Gallery, usually addressed to children, Age of Enchantment, has fallen under a malicious spell this year.... more

Barbican show is posing a most seductive question

10.10.07
The Barbican has insisted their Seduced exhibition, a new survey of 2,000 years of sex in art, is a most serious academic show.... more

Double Dutch

02.07.07
The National Gallery's claims for its new exhibition of portraits from Holland's Golden Age are ludicrously inflated - yet still, there are sublime works to be seen... more

Golden age of Dutch art

26.06.07
A collection of art from the Dutch golden age can be seen at the National Gallery from 27 June.... more

Dear Royal Academy, how do you do it every year?

18.06.07
Brian Sewell is so disappointed by the worst Summer Show in history that he is compelled to write individually to some of the artists involved... more

Fabulous faces

21.05.07
Dulwich Gallery has scored a coup with its new show of artists' self portraits from the Uffizi's sublime collection, says Brian Sewell.... more

Learning from the old masters

16.03.07
Eighty-year-old Leon Kossoff has been a student of the National Gallery for his entire artistic life, drawing and etching directly from the paintings he admires in its collection.... more

National Gallery goes Dutch

27.02.07
The National Gallery's summer exhibition will be devoted to 17th-century Dutch portraiture when the likes of Rembrandt and Frans Hals flourished.... more

Capital treats to come

02.01.07
Fisun Guner reveals the upcoming highlights for the art world, which have a distinctly British flavour in 2007.... more

Critic's Choice: Top 5 exhibitions

14.12.06
Bound For Glory captures American families during the Depression, there are saucy shenanigans in The Triumph Of Eros and Bert Teunissen borrows from his country's artistic heritage.... more

Knowledge is free in London's secret galleries

04.12.06
Sales such as Christie's Old Master Pictures are not just for buyers. The auction houses offer a unique opportunity to glimpse paintings rarely seen in public, says Brian Sewell.... more

Velazquez show is a sell-out

17.10.06
The National Gallery's Velazquez exhibition has proved a near sell-out before it has even opened. The show by the Spanish 17th century painter has sold 10,000 tickets.... more

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