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Postmodernism, V&A - review

29.09.11
A manifesto is published here for the first time, and it provides a clearer definition of the movement than an exhibition of pots, pans and preposterous furniture can hope to do... more

The age of andism

23.05.11
In these competitive days it's not enough to have just one career, says Helen Kirwan-Taylor ... more

Through Dyke and Dune - Dutch Landscapes

12.05.11
A random selection of 17th-century paintings by minor masters charms as much as it confuses ... more

Watercolour wonders at Tate Britain and Courtauld Gallery

24.02.11
The bigger of two new exhibitions devoted to watercolour demonstrates the beauty of the art as much as it clouds the picture with naive enthusiasm for the craft... more

Cezanne shows his hand

25.11.10
The father of Cubism comes under close scrutiny in an intriguing study of his Card Players at the Courtauld — and it’s not all flattering... more

Universities 'set to lose teaching funding in cuts'

09.11.10
As many as 10 London universities will lose all their funding for teaching under proposed cuts to higher education, the National Union of Students warned... more

The eyes have it in Thomas Lawrence show

21.10.10
Exquisitely skilful brushwork, tender insight, dramatic glances — the best of Thomas Lawrence’s portraits would have astonished even Titian... more

Edie Campbell and the minx effect

17.09.10
Edie Campbell has a rock-star boyfriend, lashings of attitude and the fashion world at her feet. Hermione Eyre meets the girl with the golden touch, here modelling this season's key trends... more

It's an antiques roadshow at V&A's Medieval and Renaissance galleries

14.01.10
Grand masterpieces jostle with trinkets in the V&A's new £32 million Medieval and Renaissance galleries... more

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

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

Love and Marriage is some wedding present

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

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

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

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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