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Inside Paula Rego's madhouse

06.08.09
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

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

Sex in Venice ... the making of Sickert

03.03.09
Paintings produced during Walter Sickert's life-changing visit to Venice have been brought together for the first time... 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

Anyone for café culture?

08.10.08
A new exhibition celebrates the Viennese coffee houses where Mahler, Strauss and Schnitzler would exchange ideas. If only there were a modern London equivalent... more

Café Royal to become five-star hotel in £90m lease

28.08.08
The historic Café Royal in Regent Street, where Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley were once regulars, is to be transformed into a 160-bedroom five-star hotel... more

Che Walker is Camden's chronicler

01.07.08
Che Walker wants to bring the madness and mayhem of north London streets to the attention of the city's theatre-goers in Frontline.... more

Arts world backs Rego in fight to save her studio

27.06.08
Leading figures in the arts world are rallying to save the back-street Camden Town studio of acclaimed artist Paula Rego... more

Scarfe's Yes Minister art on sale

20.02.08
A Gerald Scarfe drawing for the opening titles of the Yes Minister TV series is to go on sale at the 20/21 International Art Fair.... 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

Utterly compelling paintings

31.10.07
Walter Sickert's Camden Town Nudes exhibition reveals an artist fascinated by violence and the urban underbelly.... more

'Jack the Ripper' nudes go on show

24.10.07
Paintings of nudes that prompted crime writer Patricia Cornwell to name artist Walter Sickert as Jack the Ripper are to go on show in London.... more

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