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All the fun without the fair

15.10.09

If being crushed inside the Frieze tent makes you hyperventilate, don't despair - some of the best one-off shows are in other parts of town... more

Urn in Ł429,000 sale for hospital’s research

12.10.09

Grayson Perry tells how he was inspired to create a pot after watching open-heart surgery at one of Britain's top hospitals... more

Hot tickets: London's going out guide

28.09.09

The last chance to see Grayson Perry's tapestry and a weekend of comedy... more

Look but don’t touch at V&A’s ceramics rooms

16.09.09

It's enough to test the nerve of any curator: setting up 3,300 of the world’s most precious but supremely breakable works of art and craft... more

Hospital's nice little urner after Grayson Perry sees heart surgery

08.09.09

Artist Grayson Perry watched open heart surgery before creating a work which is to be auctioned to raise funds for a hospital... more

Prisoners stitch-up quilt for V&A show

03.09.09

Inmates at Britain's largest prison have hand-stitched a quilt to be displayed alongside artwork by Tracey Emin and Grayson Perry... more

Tiny tycoons: the young Londoners bucking the recession

28.08.09

Last week a report claimed that nearly 1 million under-25s were on the dole. But in the capital, bright young businesses are springing up like green shoots. Andy Barker meets the Dragons of the future...... more

New Liberty range that lets you (cross) dress like Perry...

07.08.09

One of London's most traditional department stores has swapped floral prints for hand grenades after going into partnership with a transvestite potter... more

Arty in the park - 1,000 gather for Serpentine Gallery's Summer Party

10.07.09

An eclectic crowd of more than 1,000 gathered for the Serpentine Gallery's Summer Party in Hyde Park... more

Why art is the social lubricant of our great city

10.07.09

At last night’s annual Serpentine Summer party, London shoulders its way to the front of the queue when it comes to sexing up the art world ... more

The British Museum deserves a medal

29.06.09

A witty and nerdy exhibition of satirical medals from forgotten 18th and 19th-century master-craftsmen and from contemporary artists opens at the British Museum ... more

Grayson Perry: We risk losing the art of ceramics

14.04.09

Turner Prize winner Grayson Perry is leading condemnation of the University of Westminster for closing one of Britain's top ceramics courses... more

Oh boy, I love a man in a dress

24.03.09

Dustin Hoffman, Jude Law and now Jason Donovan. Just why is it that women can't resist men in frocks?... more

Yours for Ł40 ... and it could be a Tracey Emin

05.11.08

YOKO Ono, Tracey Emin and photographer David Bailey have created new works to help future artists... more

Will the party soon be over for the Frieze crowd?

16.10.08

As London’s largest art fair opens to the public, our critic reveals the best — and the worst excesses — of the inflated contemporary market... 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

Where's the romance in Love?

13.08.08

Brian Sewell doubts if the sophisticated citizens of London will be flocking to the National Gallery's door for its Love exhibition.... more

Sir Robin Day would turn in his grave: Cross-dresser causes fury by appearing on Question Time panel as Little Bo Peep

27.06.08

The BBC has been accused of turning Question Time time into a 'pantomime' after artist Grayson Perry answered political questions alongside host David Dimbleby.... more

'LBD' gets a show of its own

19.06.08

The history of the little black dress is being told in a new exhibition... more

Terracotta army takes on King Tut

13.09.07

The battle of the burial sites has prompted more than 200,000 advance ticket sales.... more

Exhibition takes no prisoners

16.07.07

Dubbed the Turner Prize for prisoners, The Koestler Awards Scheme is a very affecting exhibition.... more

Inspiring look at life behind bars

12.07.07

The shortlisted entries from the annual Koestler Awards scheme offers privileged access to the invisible subconscious life of more than 200 prisoners and people confined in other institutions.... more

Hirst's sale to help charity

21.06.07

Work by Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin will be among items on auction to raise money for the NSPCC... more

A late line-up at the museum

01.05.07

Special after-dark events are to be held during Museums and Galleries Month, including a debate on class and a "surrealist ball".... more

Chocolate heaven at star-studded ball

20.03.07

Hosted by comedienne Ruby Wax, The Chocolate Ball promises to be dripping in glamour and chocolate treats.... more

Adčs proves he's the real thing

13.03.07

Thomas Adčs's first full-scale opera, The Tempest, returns to Covent Garden as an assured, fully matured work with many of the reservations evident on first hearing banished.... more

Capital treats to come

02.01.07

Fisun Guner reveals the upcoming highlights for the art world, which have a distinctly British flavour in 2007.... more

Take me out: best weekend events

02.11.06

Soulwax take over Fabric, Isabelle Huppert gets her own season at the NFT and Will Self and Grayson Perry will be popping down to Late At Tate Britain. ... more