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Picasso is stolen from San Francisco gallery

06.07.11
A Picasso pencil drawing is stolen from a gallery in San Francisco by a man who fled in a waiting cab... more

Kings and queens of comedy unite for Mencap benefit

04.04.11
Mencap's April Fools benefit was a night of quickfire laughs starring the likes of Jo Brand, Miranda Hart, Harry Hill, Al Murray and Catherine Tate... more

Three cheers for Francis Bacon after art sale raises £93.5million

11.02.11
Three Francis Bacon portraits of his friend Lucian Freud, painted in 1964, sold for £23million at Sotheby's last night... more

Three Sotheby's art auctions expected to raise £150m

26.01.11
Sotheby's is to sell Impressionist, modern and contemporary art work worth an estimated £150 million at three London auctions next month... more

The art of travel

15.10.10
Dali and de Meuron in Madrid, Hollywood glitz and pre-Columbian sculptures in LA and Norman Foster and truffle fries in the Bowery. Embark on a 21st-century grand tour, say Hannah Nathanson and Pandora Sykes... more

Art medium asks: Can Vincent Van Gogh 'ear us?

29.09.10
Psychic mediums are to channel the spirits of famous artists at this year’s Frieze Art Fair... more

Perfume history is ever fragrant

08.09.10
Women who love to smell special should hot foot it to an exhibition at Harrods on the history of perfume, says Melanie McDonagh... more

Perfect Pads: Best European villas

11.08.10
Stunning new European villas make for the ultimate late summer break... more

Saatchi’s Young British Artists set to be an auction Sensation

08.06.10
Three works from the groundbreaking Sensation exhibition 13 years ago are to be sold at auction with prices of up to £1 million... more

Method in Rachel Harrison's madness

27.04.10
For her Whitechapel Gallery show, Rachel Harrison pulls together a junkyard of elements to create one of her exotic installations — but there’s more to it than rubbish, says Ben Luke.... more

Controversial book and film becomes London art exhibition

02.02.10
It was a book, then a controversial movie, and now Crash, a major new exhibition of art inspired by the dark dystopian writings of JG Ballard, will open at a London gallery ... more

Doctor Parnassus isTerry Gilliam's flying circus

16.10.09
There are plenty of wild ideas in Terry Gilliam's latest epic — The Imagination of Doctor Parnassus - but his flights of fancy don't really lead anywhere.... more

Costa Posher in Spain

05.08.09
The rugged coastline of north-east Spain was a favourite haunt of Dalí and Picasso. It's still largely unspoilt and a cut above the fish'n’chips culture of resorts further south... more

The bitter family battle for the L’Oréal billion

20.07.09
As a society photographer faces trial for allegedly swindling France’s richest woman out of a fortune, Kim Willsher reports on a very French feud... more

Ron Arad - My London

29.05.09
Ron Arad's heroes are Bob Dylan and Marcel Duchamp, and he's inspired by The London Library... more

Ex-thief is aiming to steal the Chelsea Flower Show

09.04.09
A former art thief caught with works by Warhol, Dali and Chagall is helping to create a garden for Chelsea Flower Show... more

Is this woman Salvador Dali's secret daughter?

15.08.08
He was terrified of the female body and made love to his wife only once. Yet last week, a woman claimed to be the love child of modern art's weirdest genius.... more

The Dali I knew

04.06.07
Tate Modern's exhibition of Salvador Dalí's flirtation with film is full of insights into the master of Surrealism and brings back a flood of memories for Brian Sewell.... more

Critic's choice: top 5 exhibitions

31.05.07
Antony Gormley's fog in a box, a collaboration between Dali and Disney plus the last chance to see Monet's pastels are some of London's top exhibition draws.... more

Disney and Dali debut at Tate

30.05.07
A short film collaboration between Walt Disney and Salvador Dali will be shown for the first time at the artist's Tate Modern show, which opens on Friday.... more

Critic's choice: top five exhibitions

17.05.07
Surrealism at the V&A, digital projections from innovative American artist Paul Chan and exotic sculptures at the Camden Arts Centre are among Hephzibah Anderson's top five exhibitions.... more

Critic's choice: Top 5 exhibitions

26.04.07
A fresh generation of fashion designers steps into the limelight in New York Fashion Now and it's your last chance to catch the Hogarth exhibition.... more

Critic's choice: Top 5 exhibitions

19.04.07
The Royal Academy's latest exhibition reveals that Monet was a thoughtful draughtsman, East meets West in A Slap in the Face! and it's your last chance to see Tate Modern's Sliding Doors.... more

Surreally thrilling

16.04.07
Shallow and silly it may be, but the V&A's new surrealism exhibition is an intriguing survey of an incoherent movement, says Brian Sewell. ... more

How weirdness took on the world

11.04.07
The fantastic Surrealism And Design exhibition at the V&A keeps faith with the artists' craziness.... more

Critic's choice: Top 5 exhibitions

11.04.07
East meets West in the A Slap in the Face! exhibition, the V&A traces the influence of surrealism on design and Camouflage takes us from the battlefield to the catwalk.... more

Things are getting Surreal at the V&A

21.03.07
The V&A's new exhibition is exploring the influence Surrealism has had on the worlds of fashion, design, film and advertising.... more

Shock of the old

28.12.06
Belle de Jour was described as pornography when it was first released in 1967 and the film from great Spanish director Luis Buñuel has lost none of its provocative power.... more

Moving art museum 'fills gap in our culture'

16.10.06
Britain's first museum of moving art has opened in the East End. Kinetica, at Old Spitalfields Market, showcases technological and electronic art.... more


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