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London councils 'face £5bn cuts'
Councils are preparing for average cuts of 24% which could see a total of £5bn cut from budgets across the city, BBC London learns.
Planes nearly collide over LondonA business jet and a passenger plane came close to a mid-air collision over London in July, a report reveals.
'Torture' of British Shia activist in BahrainA London cab driver is among Shia activists tortured by the Bahraini authorities, his lawyers tell the BBC.
Talks over Billingsgate bye-lawMarkets committee members are to visit Billingsgate Fish Market to discuss plans to change the way it is run.
Work to fix water pipe continuesEngineers continue to mend a water main in Brentford that burst for the second time in less than a month.
Councils may share top executiveTwo councils in London consider sharing a chief executive and management team in an attempt to plug a funding gap.
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Street Art: Beautiful Hackney
]]>Next time you're wandering through Hackney, look out for this sardonic scrawl. Street artist Pure Evil is daubing posters, walls and ...
Lions of London #42
London has the largest litter of lions in the world. A magnificent pride their history goes back 120,000 years. ...
Whale Skeleton On Display At Museum Of London Docklands
The half-tonne, headless skeleton of a Northern Atlantic right whale, discovered during excavation work at Bay Wharf in Greenwich, ...
Planes In "Near Miss" Over London
Photo / O.F.E. A report by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch has described a near miss between ...
Extra, Extra
Anti-third runway protest at St Pancras in 2007. Photo / IanMH One of Damilola Taylor's killers has ...
Preview: Kings Place Festival 2010
By Matt From London Kings Place introduces its new season with 4 days of affordable arts festivity ...
Spoken Word Review: John Hegley @ Greenwich Comedy Festival
We would like to moot the installation of John Hegley as Official National Treasure, pronto. His hangdog demeanour, ...
Review: HMS Pinafore @ The Rosemary Branch Theatre
Dick Deadeye & Captain Corcoran Charles Court Opera has made a welcome return to the tiny Victorian ...
New Restaurant Review: Barrio Central
Photography by Chris Osburn Soho's got a new “Latin cantina and cocktail lounge” that Londonist recently visited ...
Theatre Review: Shoes @ Sadlers Wells
Jo Morris wearing Natacha Marro by Manuel Vason Glitz and glamour were the order of the night ...
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Preview: The Mayor's Thames Festival 2010
Feast on Southwark Bridge from last year's event The banks of the River Thames will be thronged ...
Book Grocer: 8-14 September
The week ahead in literary London Wednesday: Dan Cruickshank talks about the secret history of Georgian London - and ...
Here Be Dragons: In Search Of The End Of London
]]>Where are the limits of London? Exactly how far North, South, East and West is it possible to live and still ...
Preview: The BFI London Film Festival 2010
The line-up for the London Film Festival was released earlier today. You can't buy tickets just yet -- priority ...
The XX Bag Mercury Prize
The XX scooped the 2010 Mercury Prize for album of the year last night with their eponymous debut, beating ...
TfL Claims To Run 40% Tube Strike Service
Image by gary8345 from the Londonist Flickr pool This morning brings a spat over just how ...
Tony Blair Cancels Tate Party
Though his book is selling well, it's not turning into a great week for Tony Blair: the former PM ...
The Tea Party Comes To London
Photo / buckaroo kid The Taxpayers' Alliance has invited a delegate of lobbyists who back the Tea ...
Get A Quack Diploma In Whitehall Today
Come along to Whitehall today armed with your favourite quack remedies and you could be granted a diploma to ...
New Free Magazine To Launch
After the comical disaster that was the London Weekly, Londoners might be wary to learn that yet another free ...
ASA Rules Stansted Express Ads 'Misleading'
National Express has had its knuckles rapped by the Advertising Standards Agency over posters which they say imply that ...
Arts Ahead: What's On In London 7-13 September
Shoes at Sadler's Wells. Photo by Hugo Glendinning It's a packed ol' week. Here are our choices ...
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BA is looking to expand its activities at City Airport. A student has been jailed having been caught with his ...
Exhibition Review: Inventing the 21st Century @ British Library
The latest exhibition in the BL's tiny Folio Society Gallery is, like all the best innovations, really simple. Fifteen ...
Theatre Review: Pieces Of Vincent @ Arcola Theatre
Every now and then, London theatre throws up something very different. Part art installation, part theatrical experiment, David ...
New Restaurant Review: Tom's Kitchen at Somerset House
Photography by Chris Osburn We certainly couldn't have picked a more pleasant time to accept our invitation ...
Comedy Preview: Time Out Live's Laugh Out Loud
Russell Kane scooped the award for best comedy show in Edinburgh this August - that's the panel award, rather ...
Music Preview: Public Enemy @ indigO2
Legendary rap group Public Enemy will perform in the O2's indigO2 venue this November. Two of the original threesome, ...
Photographers' Gallery To Move Into Bars During Refit
The new Photographers' Gallery What do you do when you're a popular London gallery but you have ...
London Cycle Hire 24hr Crazy Challenge Complete!
If the Cycle Hire scheme got you to work today you might be interested to read about one of the challenges ...
Sponsored Post: Sud de France Festival, Make Your Summer Last a Little Longer!
From the 17th to the 30th of September, the Sud de France Festival will bring the French Mediterranean lifestyle to ...
London "Crippled" As Tube Strike Hits All Lines
Paddington this morning, by Martin Deutsch The 24-hour Tube strike, which began yesterday, has been hailed as ...
Greenwich Gets New Podcast
Today sees/hears the launch of a new podcast covering the Greenwich area (presumably the whole borough, as it's aimed ...
Today: Historic Flyover To Mark Blitz
The 70th anniversary of the start of the Blitz will be marked today with a memorial service and a ...
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Extra, Extra
Medieval & Renaissance gallery at the Victoria & Albert museum. Photo / Sinister Pictures After flirting with ...
Music Review: Kate Dimbleby @ New End Theatre
Kate Dimbleby: she doesn't do things by halves. This, her third of a thirty-five show residency is an ...
Preview: Brian Eno's Apollo @ Southbank
Pioneering ensemble Icebreaker and formidable pedal steel guitar innovator BJ Cole bring their critically acclaimed performance of ...
Preview: Heritage Train Day
Carriage interior UPDATE THE TRAIN TRIPS HAVE BEEN CANCELLED AS THE TRAINS ARE FAULTY. AMERSHAM HERITAGE DAY ...
Preview: Anti Design Festival @ Redchurch St
In response to, and in defiance of, a 25 year "cultural deep freeze" in the UK, ...
Met Considers New Evidence In NOTW Phone Hacking Case
Photo by dermot_reeve from the Londonist Flickr pool The Metropolitan Police are considering whether to reopen ...
]]>Next time you're wandering through Hackney, look out for this sardonic scrawl. Street artist Pure Evil is daubing posters, walls and ...
London has the largest litter of lions in the world. A magnificent pride their history goes back 120,000 years. ...
The half-tonne, headless skeleton of a Northern Atlantic right whale, discovered during excavation work at Bay Wharf in Greenwich, ...
Photo / O.F.E. A report by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch has described a near miss between ...
Anti-third runway protest at St Pancras in 2007. Photo / IanMH One of Damilola Taylor's killers has ...
By Matt From London Kings Place introduces its new season with 4 days of affordable arts festivity ...
We would like to moot the installation of John Hegley as Official National Treasure, pronto. His hangdog demeanour, ...
Dick Deadeye & Captain Corcoran Charles Court Opera has made a welcome return to the tiny Victorian ...
Photography by Chris Osburn Soho's got a new “Latin cantina and cocktail lounge” that Londonist recently visited ...
Jo Morris wearing Natacha Marro by Manuel Vason Glitz and glamour were the order of the night ...
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Feast on Southwark Bridge from last year's event The banks of the River Thames will be thronged ...
The week ahead in literary London Wednesday: Dan Cruickshank talks about the secret history of Georgian London - and ...
]]>Where are the limits of London? Exactly how far North, South, East and West is it possible to live and still ...
The line-up for the London Film Festival was released earlier today. You can't buy tickets just yet -- priority ...
The XX scooped the 2010 Mercury Prize for album of the year last night with their eponymous debut, beating ...
Image by gary8345 from the Londonist Flickr pool This morning brings a spat over just how ...
Though his book is selling well, it's not turning into a great week for Tony Blair: the former PM ...
Photo / buckaroo kid The Taxpayers' Alliance has invited a delegate of lobbyists who back the Tea ...
Come along to Whitehall today armed with your favourite quack remedies and you could be granted a diploma to ...
After the comical disaster that was the London Weekly, Londoners might be wary to learn that yet another free ...
National Express has had its knuckles rapped by the Advertising Standards Agency over posters which they say imply that ...
Shoes at Sadler's Wells. Photo by Hugo Glendinning It's a packed ol' week. Here are our choices ...
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BA is looking to expand its activities at City Airport. A student has been jailed having been caught with his ...
The latest exhibition in the BL's tiny Folio Society Gallery is, like all the best innovations, really simple. Fifteen ...
Every now and then, London theatre throws up something very different. Part art installation, part theatrical experiment, David ...
Photography by Chris Osburn We certainly couldn't have picked a more pleasant time to accept our invitation ...
Russell Kane scooped the award for best comedy show in Edinburgh this August - that's the panel award, rather ...
Legendary rap group Public Enemy will perform in the O2's indigO2 venue this November. Two of the original threesome, ...
The new Photographers' Gallery What do you do when you're a popular London gallery but you have ...
If the Cycle Hire scheme got you to work today you might be interested to read about one of the challenges ...
From the 17th to the 30th of September, the Sud de France Festival will bring the French Mediterranean lifestyle to ...
Paddington this morning, by Martin Deutsch The 24-hour Tube strike, which began yesterday, has been hailed as ...
Today sees/hears the launch of a new podcast covering the Greenwich area (presumably the whole borough, as it's aimed ...
The 70th anniversary of the start of the Blitz will be marked today with a memorial service and a ...
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Medieval & Renaissance gallery at the Victoria & Albert museum. Photo / Sinister Pictures After flirting with ...
Kate Dimbleby: she doesn't do things by halves. This, her third of a thirty-five show residency is an ...
Pioneering ensemble Icebreaker and formidable pedal steel guitar innovator BJ Cole bring their critically acclaimed performance of ...
Carriage interior UPDATE THE TRAIN TRIPS HAVE BEEN CANCELLED AS THE TRAINS ARE FAULTY. AMERSHAM HERITAGE DAY ...
In response to, and in defiance of, a 25 year "cultural deep freeze" in the UK, ...
Photo by dermot_reeve from the Londonist Flickr pool The Metropolitan Police are considering whether to reopen ...
Thought for the day: life is a rail replacement bus service.
TfL thanks customers and staff as Tube services return to normal
More than a third of services operated despite industrial action. Tube bosses remain ready for constructive talks and maintain their commitment ...
Aldwych: Book ASAP to avoid disappointment
As this author can personally verify, the London Transport Museum's phone lines are currently under siege by those wishing to get ...
TfL advice to Londoners during RMT/TSSA Tube strike: 17:00 update
Well over a third of Tube trains are currently in operation, with more expected during the evening peak. A full service ...
London Underground calls on RMT and TSSA leadership to call off strike and return to talks
London Underground (LU) has given unions assurances that they seek on no compulsory redundancies and safe staffing levels. LU remains ready ...
Kender Street Triangle to switch to two-way traffic this weekend
The Gyratory system will be removed from 4:00 Sunday 5 September. The Kender Street Triangle will be the third gyratory system ...
A new platform signals all change at Stratford ahead of 2012
A new platform at Stratford Regional station will help keep passengers moving during the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. ...
DfT Confirm They Will NOT Fund Surrey Canal Road
Below is a letter, dated 31st August, sent to Caroline Pidgeon AM by Theresa Villiers MP. The letter confirms that that ...
Saying Goodbye to the 313s
With the 378s now a firm fixture on the North London Line, it is now close to the time when the ...
The Crossrail Works At Paddington
During the recent blockade on the Hammersmith and City and Circle, work took place at Paddington on both Crossrail and the ...
Crossrail At Kensal Rise Back On The Cards?
As reported earlier this week by Building Design, Kensington & Chelsea Council has authorised a £55,000 feasibility study into a new ...
Blackfriars Concepts and a Potential New Name
Network Rail have released a number of new concept images for Blackfriars station, where upgrade work is now heavily underway. ...
In Pictures: The Work Farringdon
The photos below, taken earlier this month, give a quick insight into the state of play at Farringdon. The first two ...
The Northern Line Runaway: Links and Facts
Friday saw that rarest of events on the Underground - a truly "runaway" train on the Northern Line. Now that a ...
In Video: A Return to the Crossrail Centre Point Camera
We've covered the Crossrail demolition work at Tottenham Court Road as viewed from the TfL webcam in the TfL offices at ...
Crossrail Rolling Stock PIN Posted
The Periodic Indicative Notice (PIN) for Crossrail's rolling stock contract has now been posted. This is effectively a "heads up" to ...
£300M Bond Street Upgrade Contract Awarded
Bond Street station, at the heart of London’s West End, is due to have a costly upgrade, with main work ...
In Pictures: the 1927 London Underground Map
London Underground map, by F H Stingemore, 1927 London Underground (or rather "Underground Railways of London") issued small card folder maps ...
Not Messing About On The River
One of the disappointments of the Olympic’s construction phase has been the failure to spark a revival of water borne freight ...
In Pictures: The S Stock Debut
The S Stock entered passenger service unofficially on Saturday and more officially yesterday on the Metropolitan line. It is currently being ...
Thameslink Signalling Awarded
Network Rail has announced the award of the, £32 million, Thameslink core area resignalling contract to Invensys Rail. The project is ...
The Victoria Line: Bathtubs and Breakdowns
Those travelling on the Victoria Line over recent weeks will have noticed that the line has experienced more than its regular ...
Project Evergreen – Planning Consent secured for Northolt Junction
Our thanks and copyright acknowledgements to Richard Marks for this “Mists and Mellow Fruitfulness” view of Northolt Junction taken ...
The Status of the Jubilee Line Upgrades
Yesterday saw a Special Board Meeting at TfL. The key item on the agenda was a report on the current status ...
An Electric City
A recurring topic at Mayor’s Question Time is the Quality of London’s Air. The threat of EU penalties hangs over the ...
The Bigger Picture. – Out of Town relief in sight for the NLL
The Secretary of State for Transport has approved Network Rail’s Nuneaton North chord application. Our thanks and copyright acknowledgements ...
Moving on
You know when you're happily watching a TV show, and the credits roll, and out of nowhere the announcer says "That ...
Shepherd's Bush Overground: Finished!
Well almost. These men are putting the last bits of trim onto the aluminium panels that cover the rebuilt part of ...
The Thameslink Programme, illustrated
There are lots of elements to the Thameslink Programme, but at its core is a proposal to untangle the lines outside ...
Imperial Wharf construction begins!
If you believe this press release or this press release, they've finally started work on site at Imperial Wharf station, just ...
ELL works at Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace is one of the strangest stations on the network. It's built on the apex of a triangular junction with ...
East London Line phase 2 works to go ahead
According to this planning application, "funding has been secured" for enabling works for the phase 2 extension of the East ...
Mudchute DLR station progressing well
The main reason service the southern branch of the DLR is messed up is to rebuild Mudchute with three platforms. Reader ...
That London Overground interchange map
London Overground have quietly added walking interchanges to the London Overground network map found on trains: Oddly they don't tell ...
Shepherd's Bush/White City/Wood Lane interchanges
When the new stations at Shepherd's Bush and Wood Lane open there'll be two new out-of-station interchanges, requiring a short walk ...
Top secret London Overground news
Well, not very secret. But I've been sent a non-public London Overground presentation that contains a few interesting bits. Firstly, ...
More than a third of services operated despite industrial action. Tube bosses remain ready for constructive talks and maintain their commitment ...
As this author can personally verify, the London Transport Museum's phone lines are currently under siege by those wishing to get ...
Well over a third of Tube trains are currently in operation, with more expected during the evening peak. A full service ...
London Underground (LU) has given unions assurances that they seek on no compulsory redundancies and safe staffing levels. LU remains ready ...
The Gyratory system will be removed from 4:00 Sunday 5 September. The Kender Street Triangle will be the third gyratory system ...
A new platform at Stratford Regional station will help keep passengers moving during the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. ...
Below is a letter, dated 31st August, sent to Caroline Pidgeon AM by Theresa Villiers MP. The letter confirms that that ...
With the 378s now a firm fixture on the North London Line, it is now close to the time when the ...
During the recent blockade on the Hammersmith and City and Circle, work took place at Paddington on both Crossrail and the ...
As reported earlier this week by Building Design, Kensington & Chelsea Council has authorised a £55,000 feasibility study into a new ...
Network Rail have released a number of new concept images for Blackfriars station, where upgrade work is now heavily underway. ...
The photos below, taken earlier this month, give a quick insight into the state of play at Farringdon. The first two ...
Friday saw that rarest of events on the Underground - a truly "runaway" train on the Northern Line. Now that a ...
We've covered the Crossrail demolition work at Tottenham Court Road as viewed from the TfL webcam in the TfL offices at ...
The Periodic Indicative Notice (PIN) for Crossrail's rolling stock contract has now been posted. This is effectively a "heads up" to ...
Bond Street station, at the heart of London’s West End, is due to have a costly upgrade, with main work ...
London Underground map, by F H Stingemore, 1927 London Underground (or rather "Underground Railways of London") issued small card folder maps ...
One of the disappointments of the Olympic’s construction phase has been the failure to spark a revival of water borne freight ...
The S Stock entered passenger service unofficially on Saturday and more officially yesterday on the Metropolitan line. It is currently being ...
Network Rail has announced the award of the, £32 million, Thameslink core area resignalling contract to Invensys Rail. The project is ...
Those travelling on the Victoria Line over recent weeks will have noticed that the line has experienced more than its regular ...
Our thanks and copyright acknowledgements to Richard Marks for this “Mists and Mellow Fruitfulness” view of Northolt Junction taken ...
Yesterday saw a Special Board Meeting at TfL. The key item on the agenda was a report on the current status ...
A recurring topic at Mayor’s Question Time is the Quality of London’s Air. The threat of EU penalties hangs over the ...
The Secretary of State for Transport has approved Network Rail’s Nuneaton North chord application. Our thanks and copyright acknowledgements ...
You know when you're happily watching a TV show, and the credits roll, and out of nowhere the announcer says "That ...
Well almost. These men are putting the last bits of trim onto the aluminium panels that cover the rebuilt part of ...
There are lots of elements to the Thameslink Programme, but at its core is a proposal to untangle the lines outside ...
If you believe this press release or this press release, they've finally started work on site at Imperial Wharf station, just ...
Crystal Palace is one of the strangest stations on the network. It's built on the apex of a triangular junction with ...
According to this planning application, "funding has been secured" for enabling works for the phase 2 extension of the East ...
The main reason service the southern branch of the DLR is messed up is to rebuild Mudchute with three platforms. Reader ...
London Overground have quietly added walking interchanges to the London Overground network map found on trains: Oddly they don't tell ...
When the new stations at Shepherd's Bush and Wood Lane open there'll be two new out-of-station interchanges, requiring a short walk ...
Well, not very secret. But I've been sent a non-public London Overground presentation that contains a few interesting bits. Firstly, ...
Papers poetic power from Rachel Whiteread
Despite her links to the Young British Artists, Rachel Whiteread has always eschewed the sleek Pop Art brashness and bawdy one-liners ...
Motion pictures from Eadweard Muybridge
Eadweard Muybridge was a colourful character and a technical master but what do his photo sequences of horses running and ...
Alice Anderson, the art world's new favourite enigma
For the latest in a series of dramatic installations Alice Anderson has filled the Royal Opera House with her flowing red ...
One pioneer's chronicle of London life in Camille Silvy show
The thick detail of London life is how Henry James described photographs taken by Camille Silvy during his seven year stay ...
Paula Rego's foundlings and fairytales
Paula Regos latest works stem from a recent exhibition alongside Tracey Emin and Mat Collishaw at the Foundling Museum ...
Sargent and the Sea is down at the shallow end
There is no depth to the latest John Singer Sargent show which relies heavily on notebook drawings and oil sketches, says ...
Different strokes from Andrew Wyeth
Andrew Wyeths bleak nature paintings bring to London the romantic myth of the solitary American but the accompanying works of ...
Olga Chernysheva takes us from past to present
Olga Chernyshevas most sophisticated and dazzling work to date is on show at the Calvert 22 Gallery. ...
Marks of inspiration at Kupferstichkabinett
Wite Cube has taken an ambitious step with Kupferstichkabinett, gathering 170 drawings from some of the most prominent names in contemporary ...
Time for a shake-up of the Portrait Gallery's annual award
The National Portrait Gallerys annual award has long since lost its vigour but its sponsors troubles present the opportunity for ...
Looking at children, beauty and death with Sally Mann
Sally Mann is a serious, thoughtful and sophisticated American photographer whose work has raised controversy since her 1984 portraits . ...
Ernesto Neto makes a splash on Southbank
The Hayward Gallery has a knack of presenting exuberant summer exhibitions. This year Ernesto Neto and The New Decor are on ...
Do my eyes deceive me at the National Gallery?
The scientific techniques used to tell a genuine painting from a dud are the focus of a new show that only ...
Johnnie Shand Kydd goes to the heart of Italy
Infamous today for its mafia-like Camorra clan, Naples also preserves a mythical status as the Greek city dedicated to the Siren ...
Alice Neel was the art world's best kept secret
She rose to fame in her native America after painting Andy Warhol but remained unknown in the UK. Yet artists all ...
A world in motion from Francis Alÿs
Belgian-born artist Francis Alÿs is a restless spirit. His works vary from films capturing his eccentric journeys around his adopted home ...
Puzzle of frowns and smiles with Wolfgang Tillmans
Tillmans is an innovator who explores and savours the world around him, experiments with production processes he still prints his ...
A stick of rock, cock? Tate Britain gets smutty
Tate Britains new show is sunk by smutty seaside humour, crude caricatures and pretentious contemporary art, says Brian Sewell ...
Ray Harryhausen is master of film monsters
On Ray Harryhausen's birthday next Tuesday, June 29, the London Film Museums splendid exhibition of his creations opens to the public. ...
Nothing is Forever shows the promise of things to come
Nothing Is Forever is a solid if unspectacular start to SLGs new era but there is plenty to suggest that its ...
The secret career of Ken Russell
Before he moved into film, the controversial British director was a compassionate photographer. As an exhibition of his scenes of post-war ...
Macca shares Linda's snaps of the Sixties
Sir Paul McCartney has chosen a selection of rare images taken by his late wife Linda for an exhibition at the ...
Picasso's happy period makes for a great show
The carefree paintings, sculptures and drawings from the Picasso's years on the French Riviera make for the most exciting and enjoyable ...
A tree house to treasure in 1:1 Architects Build Small Spaces
The premise of 1:1 Architects Build Small Spaces is a reasonable one: whats the point of an architecture exhibition if you ...
Surreal House is a dream of a home
Given the popularity of Surrealism, it is increasingly difficult for our galleries to convey that sense of shock ...
Despite her links to the Young British Artists, Rachel Whiteread has always eschewed the sleek Pop Art brashness and bawdy one-liners ...
Eadweard Muybridge was a colourful character and a technical master but what do his photo sequences of horses running and ...
For the latest in a series of dramatic installations Alice Anderson has filled the Royal Opera House with her flowing red ...
The thick detail of London life is how Henry James described photographs taken by Camille Silvy during his seven year stay ...
Paula Regos latest works stem from a recent exhibition alongside Tracey Emin and Mat Collishaw at the Foundling Museum ...
There is no depth to the latest John Singer Sargent show which relies heavily on notebook drawings and oil sketches, says ...
Andrew Wyeths bleak nature paintings bring to London the romantic myth of the solitary American but the accompanying works of ...
Olga Chernyshevas most sophisticated and dazzling work to date is on show at the Calvert 22 Gallery. ...
Wite Cube has taken an ambitious step with Kupferstichkabinett, gathering 170 drawings from some of the most prominent names in contemporary ...
The National Portrait Gallerys annual award has long since lost its vigour but its sponsors troubles present the opportunity for ...
Sally Mann is a serious, thoughtful and sophisticated American photographer whose work has raised controversy since her 1984 portraits . ...
The Hayward Gallery has a knack of presenting exuberant summer exhibitions. This year Ernesto Neto and The New Decor are on ...
The scientific techniques used to tell a genuine painting from a dud are the focus of a new show that only ...
Infamous today for its mafia-like Camorra clan, Naples also preserves a mythical status as the Greek city dedicated to the Siren ...
She rose to fame in her native America after painting Andy Warhol but remained unknown in the UK. Yet artists all ...
Belgian-born artist Francis Alÿs is a restless spirit. His works vary from films capturing his eccentric journeys around his adopted home ...
Tillmans is an innovator who explores and savours the world around him, experiments with production processes he still prints his ...
Tate Britains new show is sunk by smutty seaside humour, crude caricatures and pretentious contemporary art, says Brian Sewell ...
On Ray Harryhausen's birthday next Tuesday, June 29, the London Film Museums splendid exhibition of his creations opens to the public. ...
Nothing Is Forever is a solid if unspectacular start to SLGs new era but there is plenty to suggest that its ...
Before he moved into film, the controversial British director was a compassionate photographer. As an exhibition of his scenes of post-war ...
Sir Paul McCartney has chosen a selection of rare images taken by his late wife Linda for an exhibition at the ...
The carefree paintings, sculptures and drawings from the Picasso's years on the French Riviera make for the most exciting and enjoyable ...
The premise of 1:1 Architects Build Small Spaces is a reasonable one: whats the point of an architecture exhibition if you ...
Given the popularity of Surrealism, it is increasingly difficult for our galleries to convey that sense of shock ...