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PM Gallery's summer exhibiton will be all white on the night

28.07.09
The White Show is opening in the PM Gallery, Ealing, at the height of the British summer.... more

Kate and the Brits toast their victory with fizz and a fry-up

23.02.09
Our homegrown stars partied into the early hours today but, at Hollywood’s biggest celebration, nothing was more intoxicating than success. Nick Curtis and John Arlidge report... more

Highlights of the lowlands in Bruegel to Rubens

28.11.08
The fashion for Dutch and Flemish masters has waned in the past half century. Bruegel to Rubens reminds us of the odd riches we now overlook.... more

Is this woman Salvador Dali's secret daughter?

15.08.08
He was terrified of the female body and made love to his wife only once. Yet last week, a woman claimed to be the love child of modern art's weirdest genius.... more

Resounding triumph for Mahler's greatest work

10.07.08
Mahler's Symphony No8 exploits the prodigious echo to provide the kind of overwhelming spiritual experience that the symphony should be.... more

All tied up in knots

09.05.08
Alison Watt's huge canvases of white drapery for the National Gallery are overblown and overpraised, says Brian Sewell.... more

Siena the sideshow

26.10.07
There is a story to be told about the most picturesque Renaissance city in Italy but it is hardly touched upon in the National Gallery's new exhibition.... more

Barmy Barney

21.09.07
He's an American Damien Hirst, and he's made a film with his girlfriend Bjork but only now has the Serpentine given him his first major UK exhibition. Welcome to the weird world of Matthew Barney.... more

A terrible fate should befall this Kismet

28.06.07
West End star Michael Ball made his national opera debut, but Kismet left Fiona Maddocks asking who on earth allowed the production to happen?... more

Play in need of a few prayers

20.06.07
A lack of direction blights A Small Miracle, a play which otherwise has plenty of material to fill a typical drama.... more

Yank's Divine Intervention

18.06.07
Riffing on the Virgin Mary: US comic David Cross is hitting London tomorrow with his 'casually prevocative' new show.'... more

A fresh ray of hope in the garden

06.06.07
Having never found a restaurant in Covent Garden that he especially cared for, The Forge proved a pleasant discovery for Chris Blackhurst.... 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

Angelina is portrayed as Virgin Mary

04.01.07
Tomb Raider star Angelina Jolie is depicted as the Virgin Mary in a controversial new painting by artist Kate Kretz.... more

Top marks for Tallis Scholars

22.12.06
As part of the annual St John's, Smith Square, Christmas Festival, The Talllis Scholars gave a varied programme of Palestrina and de Monte, framed by three masterpieces of English Tudor music.... more

Country music satire is hit and miss

20.12.06
A night with Tina C - drag artist Chris Green's unfeasibly leggy creation - is a hit and miss affair with the impressive ingredients never quite gelling, says Bruce Dessau.... more

After the gore, the goo

07.12.06
After being whipped around Jerusalem by The Passion of the Christ, we are now covered in sticky goo by Catherine Hardwicke's film The Nativity.... more

Proceed to floor three for damnation

18.10.06
Promenade installation Faust is the latest production by Punchdrunk and is one of the most memorable evenings you're likely to have as an audience member all year. ... more

Saatchi pulls 'blasphemous' exhibits

16.10.06
Charles Saatchi has pulled two controversial sculptures from his Royal Academy show USA Today which opened this month.... more

Whatever happened to Hockney?

16.10.06
The National Portrait Gallery's new exhibition charts the rise of one of the very few great draughtsmen of the 20th century - and his inexplicable decline.... more

Jam and Jerusalem in Renaissance Italy

09.10.06
Women's Institute stalwarts and devotees of car-boot sales will flock to the V&A's new exhibition of Renaissance home life. The sane man, sceptical, may be less enchanted, says Brian Sewell.... more

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