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Not so grand designs

23.07.09
The influential critic Roger Fry set up the Omega Workshops to apply his ideas about art to everyday objects — but the Bloomsbury artists he employed were woeful craftsmen... more

Garden and Cosmos is in need of perspective

11.06.09
British Imperialism in the 19th century is a subtext of the Garden and Cosmos exhibition at the British Museum.... 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

Spare Handel from these Jonathan Ross japes

14.11.08
I do not much care for the thousand operas of George Frideric Handel, musical tub-thumper to King George I, but I submit to him from time to time to discover if I like them any better... more

Wyndham Lewis was Poet Painter

29.08.08
Had Wyndham Lewis left writing alone and concentrated on his art, he could have become one of the most influential artists this country has ever produced.... 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

Hang it all – they've hidden everything

02.05.08
Tate Britain's annual re-hang is seldom worth the effort and prevents the public from viewing more celebrated pictures, says Brian Sewell.... more

Where's the Jarman I knew?

29.02.08
It's a pity that a new exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery all but ignores Derek Jarman's lifelong work as a painter, 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

Little Masters and Misses

03.08.07
In attempting to trace the evolution of children's portraiture from the 17th to the 19th century the German curated exhibtion at the Dulwich Picture Gallery falls short.... more

A very sketchy show

26.03.07
The sane man who has seen drawings by Leonardo or Guercino can only wonder at the National Gallery's decision to promote the efforts of Leon Kossoff, says Brian Sewell.... 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

Citizens in the frame

05.02.07
When artists began to paint butchers and bakers as well as aristocrats and great thinkers, they were at the heart of a social revolution, as a new Royal Academy exhibition reveals.... more

Let the Welsh pay for their own gallery

15.01.07
The principality has put a ragbag of its pictures briefly on show at Christie's - and brought the begging bowls too, says Brian Sewell.... more

The Queen Mum had better taste than this

18.08.06
An exhibition of the drawings and watercolours collected by the Queen Mother makes her look more dear old duck than connoisseur, says Brian Sewell.... more

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