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Children curate 'secrets of the Wallace' show

06.11.09
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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

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

Aldwych is the new Shoreditch

29.06.09
London Fashion Week is moving to creative hot spot Aldwych, while Terence Conran opens his latest restaurant. But Aldwych is still something of a secret.... more

Jeremy Deller: The avant gardener

19.05.09
He's best known for staging a re-enactment of the battle that defined the 1984 miners' strike - so why is Turner Prize-winner Jeremy Deller putting up scarecrows outside the new Louis Vuitton store at Westfield?... more

Love and Marriage is some wedding present

13.03.09
Marriages in Renaissance Florence were celebrated with furniture of extraordinary extravagance and symbolism.... more

Sickert in Venice as you've never seen it before

06.03.09
While other artists gloried in the city of Venice's light, Sickert skulked in the shadows, painting gloomy views and prostitutes.... more

Germany's artists in exile

20.01.09
Work made in Britain by artists who fled the Nazis has gone on show in London... more

Smaller art galleries paint bright picture as visitors rise

20.11.08
Smaller art galleries in London have recorded a dramatic increase in visitors... more

Cézanne takes you down...

18.07.08
The Courtauld Institute offers a rare chance to get close to the most widely influential and revered of all the Impressionists. ... more

Can you see anything wrong with this picture?

02.05.08
Our critic, Brian Sewell, reveals the secret history of Burne-Jones’s huge last canvas, on temporary display at Tate Britain.... more

Cranach the Crude

07.03.08
A new show at the Royal Academy celebrates a small German painter with a big reputation who remained parochial and primitive to the last.... more

Little pictures for little patrons

15.02.08
The late Edwardian painters of Camden Town, currently at Tate Britain, aspired to provide low-cost art for ordinary people, says Brian Sewell.... more

What an ugly business

25.01.08
The Government's capitulation to the Russians to guarantee the RA's latest show is morally indefensible, says Brian Sewell.... more

The National Gallery finds the right man

27.11.07
New National Gallery director Nicholas Penny has all the attributes to restore one of our most important institutions to world-class status.... more

England's first Bohemian

12.11.07
In his obsessive series of the prostitutes of Camden, Walter Sickert shocks with his brute honesty, says Brian Sewell.... more

Mellon the magpie collector

05.11.07
The American tycoon Paul Mellon built a collection of British art to rival the Tate's, but he acquired as many curiosities as he did gems.... more

Somerset House restoration to reveal past glory

23.10.07
The hidden glories of Somerset House are to be revealed in a full restoration of its 18th-century buildings.... more

The Millais model

28.09.07
A new exhibition of the works of Millais at the Tate Britain seeks to revive the artist's foundering reputation.... more

Less is Moore

03.09.07
28 of Henry Moore's later, larger works are being installed in the sylvan setting of Kew Gardens - just as he always wanted.... more

Nice little Turner for the Tate

23.07.07
How to rebrand Britain's foremost watercolourist for the exhibition-going masses? Why, bring in the genre's most recent celebrity convert, David Hockney of course, says Brian Sewell.... more

Trouble in Paradise

16.07.07
The Courtauld Institute's Adam and Eve exhibition is a provocative introduction to Lucas Cranach's work - but its meagreness leaves you wanting to learn more.... more

Is this really a portrait of Jane Austen?

11.05.07
The novelist's family claims it is the only painting of the much-loved writer; its detractors say it can't possibly be. As the debate rages, a national treasure is at stake.... more

Spinster gave away £5 million art collection

27.03.07
Staff at the Courtauld Institute of Art received a collection of more than 50 paintings valued at £5 million. Yet nobody at the gallery had heard of their owner, Dorothy Scharf.... more

Guercino - the genius

12.03.07
Guercino was all but lost until the Courtauld began to resurrect his reputation. Now the ragbag collection of one of its founding fathers contributes to an enlightening exhibition.... more

The cheek of it!

11.12.06
The latest exhibition on at Somerset House's Hermitage Rooms titillates with its promise of sex and scholarship - but leaves the visitor wanting much more, says Brian Sewell.... 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

Man who put everyone in the picture

06.11.06
When an Austrian archduke, appointed by a Spanish king, employed a Flemish painter to copy his collection, the first ever illustrated art catalogue was born.... more

The beginning of the end

11.08.06
He saw himself as a traditionalist, but Oskar Kokoschka's great triptych of 1950, on show at the Courtauld, sounded the death knell for figurative painting, says Brian Sewell.... more

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