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Game, set and matching earrings for Sharapova

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Pavilion reflects well on park

08.07.09
It is described as being like a reflective cloud. Or possibly a floating pool of water. And given the torrents of rain overnight, the pool analogy certainly seemed more appropriate... more

Light, airy structure brings Serpentine’s summer fixture to life

08.07.09
Your first thought as you approach this year’s Serpentine Pavilion is “where is it?” Last year Frank Gehry erected thumping chunks of timber, and before him Rem Koolhaas put up an inflated Zeppelin. All you see now are some skinny poles and an inch-thick sheet of aluminium... more

Tim Jefferies - The playboy who gave it all up for love and a girl called Coco

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Tim Jefferies has made a career out of dating London’s most beautiful women. Now he’s a besotted father and busy organising the coveted Serpentine Summer Party... more

The grape escape: vineyard holidays

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The inventive art world of Jeff Koons

04.06.09
As the Serpentine Gallery launches a new Jeff Koons exhibition next month, poet Craig Raine assesses this artist's enduring attraction.... more

Architects unite to fire barracks salvo at Prince

20.04.09
The Prince of Wales has come under renewed fire from the world's leading architects over his attempt to interfere in the Chelsea barracks development... more

The end of the icon

17.03.09
The age of the look-at-me building is drawing to a close as projects flounder and Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry and Richard Rogers make cutbacks — but there is a silver lining... more

Briton behind Berlin's building of the decade

06.03.09
When the Royal Air Force smashed up Berlin's Neues Museum in two nights of bombing, no one could have foreseen that it would take a British architect, more than 60 years later, to put it right... more

Mariza makes it look easy

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Statuesque Afro-Portuguese singer Mariza performed with the effortless confidence that comes from playing Carnegie Hall and the Sydney Opera House.... more

Wonky staircase takes lead from Serpentine pavilion

11.09.08
A huge spiral staircase made of scaffolding and wooden slats is at the centre of a new art exhibition... more

Dasha puts up the cash for party at Serpentine gallery

05.09.08
She is best known as the girlfriend of Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich - but now Dasha Zhukova is making waves in the world of art... more

Free culture in London

13.08.08
In these straitened times, the first sacrifices are the theatre, concert tickets and art gallery visits, right? Wrong.... more

Serenades at the Serpentine

18.07.08
Frank Gehry's Pavilion will be serenaded into a state of openness by Thomas Adès, accompanied by visuals from the video artist Tal Rosner.... more

This fraud story will be challenge for SFO chief

18.07.08
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08.07.08
The Tories new proposals for a "swing" duty on fuel leave me feeling a little sceptical... more

Gehry's summer pavilion resembles exploding timber yard

19.06.08
Work has started on this year's Serpentine Gallery summer pavilion, designed to look like an exploding timber yard... more

An innovative performance

29.04.08
The world premiere of Thomas Adès’s In Seven Days: Piano Concerto with Moving Image was a triumph, says Fiona Maddocks.... more

The far-out pavilion ... Gehry at the Serpentine

25.03.08
This summer's pavilion at the Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park will look like an exploded timber yard... more

The far-out pavilion ... Gehry at the Serpentine

25.03.08
Architect Frank Gehry has designed the new look summer pavillion at the Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park. He describes it as being “like an urban street”.... more

Putting art on a pedestal

06.11.07
After the statue of Alison Lapper, Thomas Schutte's five-metre high glass sculpture on the Fourth Plinth is just what Trafalgar Square needs ... more

Ice, great rivers and the hand of man

02.11.07
Last night's account of Sibelius was characterised by taut rhythmic control and driving momentum.... more

Fossilised Genesis rock still has sparkle

09.07.07
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Sketches of Frank Gehry

28.06.07
Architect Frank Gehry talks to his friend Sydney Pollack about what makes him tick and how his work has developed over the years.... more

Alina is a woman transformed

20.11.06
Alina Cojocaru is a very special ballerina, but many feared she has been hampered by her restraint and delicacy. She answers her doubters in the Royal Ballet's Triple Bill, says Sarah Frater.... more

In search of Mozart's inner peace

29.08.06
Phillippe Herreweghe steered the Orchestre des Champs Elysées down an alternative path at its Proms performance of Mozart's Requiem, and the less intense approach proved successful.... more

Critic's Choice: Top Five Classical Events

24.08.06
Barry Millington's pick of the weekend's top classical events includes some Mozart at Greenwich park and the Minnesota Orchestra at the Proms with phenomenal pianist Llyr Williams...... more

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