To ensure a scrupulously fair political response towards the former Defence Secretary, David Cameron's team reportedly read out the newspaper coverage substituting the names of the Prime Minister's favourites, Michael Gove and George Osborne, for that of Liam Fox... more
Frieze Art Fair: Lo-tech Peckham collective LuckyPDF are running a live TV studio at Frieze to showcase other young artists - they're not interested in 'pandering to a generation that is not going to be here in 20 years' they tell Ben Luke... more
A London artist who has never had a major solo show in her home city has joined an international line-up - including four Turner Prize winners - chosen to create posters for the 2012 Games... more
Interview: A year from today the London 2012 Festival starts, marking the grand finale of the Cultural Olympiad. Read The Standard's interview with the woman in charge of the 12-week programme... more
Andy Warhol took his place in the procession of high-priced art through London salerooms when his six-feet square 1967 self-portrait sold for almost £11milliion at Christie's... more
I once witnessed Bridget Riley standing transfixed before a Henri Matisse painting amid the hubbub of Tate Modern’s blockbuster Matisse/Picasso... more
How did a party animal who dances till 5am and hosts alcohol-fuelled free-for-alls become the most powerful woman in art? Marcus Field meets Iwona Blazwick, creator of the Turbine Hall, champion of Hirst and reinventor of the Whitechapel Gallery
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Kay Saatchi talks to Liz Hoggard about rebuilding her life post-divorce, family arrangements with ex-husband Charles and how she wants to be a curator rather than a collector of art... more
Jake and Dinos Chapman are backing a fund-raising auction for the art college where they trained - in return for a brass plaque in the lavatories... more
Bridget Riley is to put on show never-before-seen portraits from her student days in a new exhibition revealing how traditional life drawing is at the heart of her abstract Op Art
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Harry Handelsman has taken the Victorian Gothic ruin of St Pancras and transformed it into a grand hotel and luxury flats for the post-loft generation ... more
The people's gallery of the East End got royal endorsement when Prince William officially inaugurated the Whitechapel Gallery after its £13.5 million revamp and extension
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Lovers of both contemporary art and Damien Hirst went to Sotheby’s last night for the first sale since a nuclear explosion hit this market in New York last November and wiped 20 per cent off prices... more
The National Gallery has lost its way with an installation by contemporary artist Yinka Shonibare and the arrival of a travelling show whose works should never have left home.... more
A Sotheby's sale of modern art in London has made a record-breaking £45.8 million with thirteen works sold for more than a million pounds each. ... more
Sotheby's sale of Impressionist and early 20th-century art in New Bond Street made £95 million - the largest sum ever to change hands at an auction in Europe.... more
The Hayward exhibition of the Arts Council's Collection illustrates how easily seduced that body has been into thinking today's whimsy is tomorrow's masterpiece, writes Brian Sewell.... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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