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Tacita Dean - the last film-maker

10.10.11
British artist Tacita Dean illuminates the Turbine Hall with her love letter to celluloid. But the colossal Tate Modern show nearly didn't happen, she tells Alison Roberts... more

Gerhard Richter: Panorama, Tate Modern - review

06.10.11
The recent work on display at Tate Modern's major retrospective shows that at 80, Richter is at the peak of his powers in both his expressive abstracts and his hyper-realistic paintings from photographs... more

Grand designs prove there is more to Munich

14.09.11
Bavaria's capital city may be most famous for its beery Oktoberfest but crowd-free museums, excellent restaurants and shops are great attractions for a visit at any time of year... more

Twombly and Poussin: Arcadian Painters, Dulwich Picture Gallery - review

28.07.11
An odd new show pairs beautiful Poussins with sketchy Twomblys - order and discipline versus childish blobs and scribbles ... more

Damien Hirst comes first in epic Olympic year for Tate

03.03.11
Damien Hirst will be the Tate's star exhibitor for 2012 as the gallery pulls out all the stops for Olympic year... more

A masterpiece a month as the world’s finest galleries lend works to Dulwich

02.12.10
World's top galleries are lending masterpieces by artists from Velazquez and Vermeer to Rembrandt and David Hockney to help the Dulwich Picture Gallery mark its 200th anniversary next year... more

Puzzle of frowns and smiles with Wolfgang Tillmans

25.06.10
Tillmans is an innovator who explores and savours the world around him, experiments with production processes — he still prints his own work — and creates some magnificent imagery... more

Designer deluxe: Peter Marino on the art of shopping

21.05.10
Peter Marino has created an apartment for Yves Saint Laurent, a Factory for Warhol and now an extraordinary 'Maison' for Louis Vuitton on Bond Street. Yet he still races Harleys and collects Hirsts... more

Arshile Gorky is mother's boy

11.02.10
The Armenian-born Arshile Gorky was fêted as the father of American Abstract Expressionism — but his art is compelling only when he draws on the tragic history of his native land.... more

The passing of this relic leaves Bond Street poorer

23.07.09
Former employee Oscar Humphries talks about his time at Partridge Fine Art, the Bond Street gallery which recently went into administration... more

Not enough worth buying at Summer Exhibition

15.06.09
Go to the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition if you must, but for God's sake, don't take your chequebook, says Ben Lewis.... more

Take a walk on the tame side with Richard Long

11.06.09
Richard Long made an art form out of rambling but, his beautiful “walks of art” lose some of their magic at Tate Britain.... more

Twombly's drip drip drip effect

12.02.09
Over the past 20 years Twombly has made many bold paintings of flowers — peonies, irises etc — but the roses at the Gagosian are plain soppy. ... more

Help! I’m having children for dinner

11.11.08
Having friends over for lunch is a fraught affair, even at the best of times involving a degree of washing up and hiding underwear... more

Art & design

08.10.08
London has recently underlined its status as the global capital of contemporary art. These are the key players in the world’s most exciting market. ... more

Twombly's art of confusion

11.07.08
Cy Twombly is the kind of artist that the critics find brilliant, profound and mystical and the average punter finds a bit of a mess.... more

Twombling Free

20.06.08
A marvellous retrospective at the Tate Modern unravels the career of an American who mounted a mind-blowing assault on the act of painting, explains Ben Lewis... more

Tate mounts Cy Twombly retrospective

17.06.08
The first major exhibition of the American artist Cy Twombly for 15 years opens at Tate Modern this week to mark his 80th birthday... more

Into the world of the great ghostbuster

23.11.07
Potentially alluring, the Seeing is Believing exhibition is a patchy, oddly unsatisfying show, says Sue Steward.... more


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