She played with The Fall, dated Nigel Kennedy, helps Gok Wan, and owns one of London's über stores. And her mantra, stylist Brix Smith-Start tells Liz Hoggard, is 'every customer is special'... more
A strikingly modern new golf and spa hotel just outside Lisbon is set to cause a stir in the Portuguese hotel scene this summer, says Jonathan Gregson... more
Major names from Raymond Briggs to Nick Park and Quentin Blake have donated drawings to a sale in support of a national centre for illustration... more
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
Women's footwear has long been about sex. This season's must-haves stretch so high they've been dubbed 'vagina boots'. But who actually dares wear them, asks Liz Hoggard... more
At her Kentish Town studio, the Portuguese-born
painter, the subject of a searching new film by her friend Jake Auerbach, talks candidly about her troubled life, her extraordinary art — and her fear of insanity... more
A celebrated masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance was unveiled at the National Gallery, which is campaigning to raise £50million to save it for the nation... more
Evening Standard art critic Brian Sewell has questioned the point of the National Portrait Gallery. Here its director Sandy Nairne fights back.... more
Alison Watt has been called the 'antidote to Damien Hirst'. Now, as a major exhibition of her work opens, she reveals her love of London and the obsession that drives her.... more
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
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
The Face of Fashion features some very stylish shots, the Tate Modern hosts a Gilbert & George retrospective, and it's your last chance to see The Photographic Portrait Prize 2006.... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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