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Gunshot wound to head killed boy
A 14-year-old boy from the Surrey/south London borders died from a gunshot to the head, a post-mortem reveals.
Two arrested over 'hero' killingTwo teenagers are arrested by police hunting the killer of a man stabbed to death after chasing handbag-snatchers.
Missing guitarist's sister in runThe sister of missing Manic Street Preacher guitarist Richey Edwards and parents of Madeleine McCann join a run for missing people.
Injured Moss thanks well-wishersFormula One legend Sir Stirling Moss thanks his well-wishers after he fell down a lift shaft at home and broke both ankles.
Charges over knife killing of manPolice charge a 23-year-old with murder after a man was stabbed to death outside an east London fish and chip shop.
Tributes paid to killed musicianTributes are paid to a 28-year-old musician who was killed by a lorry in a cycling accident in Hackney, east London.
Trident launches a gun-crime busThe Metropolitan Police's Trident team launch a dedicated minibus to respond to gun crime within the black community.
La Rue costumes sell for £40,000Sequined gowns and costumes worn by the late entertainer Danny La Rue sell in London for more than £40,000.
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In picturesThames Tunnel opens to public after 145 years
Preview: Easter Cakes, Cupcakes, and Cookies Courses
Easter cookies from Cakes 4 Fun The Putney based cake company, Cakes 4 Fun, is offering Easter ...
Leave No Bear Behind Part 11: Another Muppet Suicide
First a distraught Elmo threw himself into Camden Lock. Then Animal, divorced of drum kit and gathering dust in ...
Alternative London Workouts #13: Curves
What?: Curves. A woman only gym that provides a cardiovascular work out combined with strength training in just ...
Extra, Extra
Sarkozy's been in town today, meeting Brown and Cameron. There be trouble at Lambeth Palace: a church picket no less. Oh ...
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Preview: Cloud Dance Festival @ Pleasance
Kinisi Dance Company Trouble and Desire marks the return of Cloud Dance Festival for another year of ...
Preview: Lindstrom & Christabelle @ Fabric
It's been well documented that we love both a slice of Lindstrom and a slice of Scandanavian pop. ...
Hand-Drawn Maps of London: King's Cross and Angel
Click here for a bigger image, or press CTRL and '+' to zoom in. This week, we're over to the ...
London Is Wonderland
By Simon Crubellier Alice in Wonderland has seeped into our city with characters plastered all over our ...
Free Book For Your Weekend: The Equivoque Principle
Lovely publishers the Friday Project have just released the second book in the Cornelius Quaint Chronicles and - in case you ...
Photo of the Day: Caption Required #40
Photo by JimWicks via the Londonist Flickrpool. ...
Blackfriars Station Beset By Delays
The completion date for the new, Thames-spanning station at Blackfriars has been pushed back by four months. Network Rail ...
Hackney Empire Saved In Property Deal
Photo / Chris 07 Hackney Council this week rubber-stamped a £4.5 million property deal that will raise ...
A Trellick Tower For The Bees
]]>An ecological centre in Lambeth has hit upon a novel idea for bee-housing: they've built a scale model of the Trellick ...
Littlest Londonist: March 12-18
Image by Darren_Lehane Taking a glance at upcoming family friendly activities in London. Please only continue reading ...
Shoreditch Fire Update: Two Clubs 'Destroyed'
Fire fighters are still hosing down the hot timbers following a large fire in Shoreditch yesterday. A four-storey block of offices, ...
HS2 Has Terminal Consequences Around Euston
View Mega Euston in a larger map As we remember saying, on the subject of where to fit a eight platform 400 ...
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Free Flowers Around Town Today
There's a big, friendly bus full of flowers travelling round town today. If you spot it, you can get ...
Extra, Extra
Marylebone puddle reflection fabiolug via the Londonist Flickrpool John Malkovich set to go psychopathic at Barbican ...
London Word Festival: A Hundred Days To Make Me A Better Person
]]>It was such a simple idea. The London Word Festival commissioned Josie Long and some of her mates to run a ...
London Beer Quest: The Wenlock Arms
]]>Welcome to a new series devoted to exploring what London has to offer the discerning lover of excellent beer - from ...
In Pictures: Tropical Extravaganza @ Kew Gardens
]]>Last weekend we satisfied our need for sunshine and warmth at the same time by visiting the tropical conservatories at Kew ...
High Speed Rail Plans Announced
Image by TurnipFarmer from the Londonist Flickr pool Lord Adonis announced the government's proposals for a ...
London On The Cheap: 11-17 March
The Henninghams 'Chip Shop' at the launch of the London Word Festival. Get a word printed on ...
Photo of the Day: Church
Photo by Homemade via the Londonist Flickrpool. ...
Lions of London #17
London has the largest litter of lions in the world. A magnificent pride their history goes back 120,000 years. ...
Fortean London: London Stone
Fortean London is the London of strange histories, folklore, unique people, outsider ideas, ghosts, monsters and more. Take us ...
Claiming Refunds For Delayed Tube Journeys: There's An App For That
Forget your fancy augmented realities and real-time displays of Tube times. Here's a simple app that every iPhone wielding ...
Major Fire In Shoreditch Club
Over 100 fire fighters have been tackling a blaze on Tabernacle Street in Shoreditch. Dramatic pictures show a four storey office ...
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Extra, Extra
A woman has become the second cyclist to die on London's roads in as many days. The Tories reckon polycinics ...
New Courses @ Bishopsgate Institute
Enrolment opened today for a new season of short courses at Bishopsgate Institute, running April to July. Whilst 'adult ...
Rare Camellia Blooms in Chiswick
Photo / Martin Labar The Middlemist Red camellia, considered the world's rarest, is in full bloom at ...
Debate: Has Google Got Too Big?
Is Google a benign, modern company that abides by its corporate motto of "don't be evil" and enriches the ...
Quiz The Politicians At Women's Question Time
The BBC has done a First Time Voters' Question Time and now women's charity Eaves is hosting a ...
Work On Second Heron Tower Begins
The "first major residential development in the Square Mile for 30 years" (according to the developer, Heron International) is ...
Book Grocer: 10 - 16 March
The week ahead in literary London Wednesday: Novelist and journalist John Lanchester will be giving his take on the ...
Brunswick Centre Flats Prone To Flooding
Residents in some of the flats within the Grade II-listed Brunswick Centre in Bloomsbury say that their homes are ...
Theatre Review: Love Never Dies @ Apollo Theatre
We are in Coney Island, and if Lloyd Webber’s claim that the events are set ten years after Phantom ...
Police Search For Body Under Patio
In an echo of the Brookside storyline that catapulted Anna Friel to semi-stardom (oh, and that lesbian kiss didn't hurt her ...
Legal Action Threatened Over Tube Lines Ruling
Photo / Andy Wilkes TfL are threatening to take legal action against PPP arbiter Chris Bolt, after ...
Thames Tunnel Tour and Fancy Fair @ Brunel Museum, Rotherhithe
For two days only on 12th and 13th March, the Thames Tunnel, which stretches from Rotherhithe to Wapping, will ...
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Easter cookies from Cakes 4 Fun The Putney based cake company, Cakes 4 Fun, is offering Easter ...
First a distraught Elmo threw himself into Camden Lock. Then Animal, divorced of drum kit and gathering dust in ...
What?: Curves. A woman only gym that provides a cardiovascular work out combined with strength training in just ...
Sarkozy's been in town today, meeting Brown and Cameron. There be trouble at Lambeth Palace: a church picket no less. Oh ...
]]> ...
Kinisi Dance Company Trouble and Desire marks the return of Cloud Dance Festival for another year of ...
It's been well documented that we love both a slice of Lindstrom and a slice of Scandanavian pop. ...
Click here for a bigger image, or press CTRL and '+' to zoom in. This week, we're over to the ...
By Simon Crubellier Alice in Wonderland has seeped into our city with characters plastered all over our ...
Lovely publishers the Friday Project have just released the second book in the Cornelius Quaint Chronicles and - in case you ...
Photo by JimWicks via the Londonist Flickrpool. ...
The completion date for the new, Thames-spanning station at Blackfriars has been pushed back by four months. Network Rail ...
Photo / Chris 07 Hackney Council this week rubber-stamped a £4.5 million property deal that will raise ...
]]>An ecological centre in Lambeth has hit upon a novel idea for bee-housing: they've built a scale model of the Trellick ...
Image by Darren_Lehane Taking a glance at upcoming family friendly activities in London. Please only continue reading ...
Fire fighters are still hosing down the hot timbers following a large fire in Shoreditch yesterday. A four-storey block of offices, ...
View Mega Euston in a larger map As we remember saying, on the subject of where to fit a eight platform 400 ...
]]> ...
There's a big, friendly bus full of flowers travelling round town today. If you spot it, you can get ...
Marylebone puddle reflection fabiolug via the Londonist Flickrpool John Malkovich set to go psychopathic at Barbican ...
]]>It was such a simple idea. The London Word Festival commissioned Josie Long and some of her mates to run a ...
]]>Welcome to a new series devoted to exploring what London has to offer the discerning lover of excellent beer - from ...
]]>Last weekend we satisfied our need for sunshine and warmth at the same time by visiting the tropical conservatories at Kew ...
Image by TurnipFarmer from the Londonist Flickr pool Lord Adonis announced the government's proposals for a ...
The Henninghams 'Chip Shop' at the launch of the London Word Festival. Get a word printed on ...
Photo by Homemade via the Londonist Flickrpool. ...
London has the largest litter of lions in the world. A magnificent pride their history goes back 120,000 years. ...
Fortean London is the London of strange histories, folklore, unique people, outsider ideas, ghosts, monsters and more. Take us ...
Forget your fancy augmented realities and real-time displays of Tube times. Here's a simple app that every iPhone wielding ...
Over 100 fire fighters have been tackling a blaze on Tabernacle Street in Shoreditch. Dramatic pictures show a four storey office ...
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A woman has become the second cyclist to die on London's roads in as many days. The Tories reckon polycinics ...
Enrolment opened today for a new season of short courses at Bishopsgate Institute, running April to July. Whilst 'adult ...
Photo / Martin Labar The Middlemist Red camellia, considered the world's rarest, is in full bloom at ...
Is Google a benign, modern company that abides by its corporate motto of "don't be evil" and enriches the ...
The BBC has done a First Time Voters' Question Time and now women's charity Eaves is hosting a ...
The "first major residential development in the Square Mile for 30 years" (according to the developer, Heron International) is ...
The week ahead in literary London Wednesday: Novelist and journalist John Lanchester will be giving his take on the ...
Residents in some of the flats within the Grade II-listed Brunswick Centre in Bloomsbury say that their homes are ...
We are in Coney Island, and if Lloyd Webber’s claim that the events are set ten years after Phantom ...
In an echo of the Brookside storyline that catapulted Anna Friel to semi-stardom (oh, and that lesbian kiss didn't hurt her ...
Photo / Andy Wilkes TfL are threatening to take legal action against PPP arbiter Chris Bolt, after ...
For two days only on 12th and 13th March, the Thames Tunnel, which stretches from Rotherhithe to Wapping, will ...
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Thought for the day: life is a rail replacement bus service.
Branding London's Electric Charging Points
One of the hidden gems of e-Government is the Intellectual Property Office website. The IP Office have the responsibilities their name ...
North London Line: Up and Down Videos
There are a couple of simulations floating around on Google of the post-blockade North London Line between Dalston and Camden. I ...
Woolwich Town Centre boosted after £6m worth of improvements
Extensive facelift delivers major benefits for bus users, pedestrians, cyclists and road safety. ...
PPP Final Report Published
[Apologies for the lack of posts last week - business unfortunately intervened - JB] The PPP Arbiter has made his ...
Launch of 2010 Coach Parking in London Map
Access to London's cultural heritage a key theme. ...
New marshalled taxi rank in Haymarket
Transport for London has taken the decision to move the existing Cranbourne Street marshalled taxi rank to Haymarket in response to ...
London Underground outlines vision for a safe, efficient and transformed Tube
London Underground (LU) today outlined its vision for delivering a safe, efficient and transformed Tube for the future, including more frequent, ...
Contract for redevelopment of Victoria Tube station
Transport for London (TfL) today announced that following a competitive tendering process it intends to award the contract for the redevelopment ...
A Quick Thameslink Update
West Hampstead Under the unfinished stub of the new footbridge and lifts at West Hampstead Thameslink life is begining to ...
Route Recycling – Extending the Docklands Light Railway
Whilst attention has been focussed, not unnaturally, on the now imminent reopening of the East London Railway, it is not the ...
In Pictures: More ELL Stations
[UPDATE: Have added Hoxton Pictures - JB] Thanks to Yowser for the Shadwell photos (including the highlighting in the first, ...
Thameslink Completion in 2016?
This piece was intended originally simply to be a summary of the recent Parliamentary Thameslink debate, which my colleague Mwmbwls had ...
Jubilee Line Closure Dates: March - October
With the Jubilee Upgrades set to continue for some time yet, there has been much talk of upcoming closures. At the ...
The Pig in the Python – Battersea High Street
JB’s recent posting concerning the building work for Tesco at Elmers End prompted me to check the position of another ...
In Pictures: ELL 378 Training Runs
378137 passes through Silwood Junction on a training run from New Cross to Dalston Junction 378137 approaches New Cross on ...
Typographical Chinese Whispers
Last week, a story appeared on the Marketing magazine website covering the decision to give brand consultants Saffron the contract to ...
In Pictures: The New Overground Class 172s
Willesden depot will see some new visitors arriving later this spring, with eight Class 172 arriving to replace the existing Class ...
Interchange Work Begins at Elmers End
Work began last week on providing a purpose-built bus interchange alongside the Tramlink/Station at Elmers End. The works are taking ...
Bus Countdown Sign Proposals For Lewisham
With iBus now fully rolled out, TfL have begun to consult on the locations for the new version of the Countdown ...
In Pictures: The State of Play In New Cross
Things are looking advanced at New Cross Gate: Looking towards New Cross ...
Moving Congestion Charge Technologies Proves No Easy Exercise
Inanimate objects have a mind of their own and they are out to get you. You can guarantee that as soon ...
Mayor's Question Time - 01/10: And Finally...
Are you content to be known as a high fare Mayor? – John BiggsNo, because it is quite obviously untrue. ...
Mayor's Question Time - 01/10: On The Tube
Traffic levels on the Sub-surface Lines. Announcement boards at Whitechapel. Jubilee Line compensation. Turning off escalators. The PPP Arbitration. Simultaneous closures ...
Mayor's Question Time - 01/10: On The Buses
The new costs of the 18. Reducing bus services. Taking the 603 to the Royal Free. Differing seat heights. Bus emissions. ...
Mayor's Question Time - 01/10: Tramlink
The Tramlink on the Underground map. Extending the Tramlink. Why is the Tramlink System not always shown on the ...
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, ...
One of the hidden gems of e-Government is the Intellectual Property Office website. The IP Office have the responsibilities their name ...
There are a couple of simulations floating around on Google of the post-blockade North London Line between Dalston and Camden. I ...
Extensive facelift delivers major benefits for bus users, pedestrians, cyclists and road safety. ...
[Apologies for the lack of posts last week - business unfortunately intervened - JB] The PPP Arbiter has made his ...
Access to London's cultural heritage a key theme. ...
Transport for London has taken the decision to move the existing Cranbourne Street marshalled taxi rank to Haymarket in response to ...
London Underground (LU) today outlined its vision for delivering a safe, efficient and transformed Tube for the future, including more frequent, ...
Transport for London (TfL) today announced that following a competitive tendering process it intends to award the contract for the redevelopment ...
West Hampstead Under the unfinished stub of the new footbridge and lifts at West Hampstead Thameslink life is begining to ...
Whilst attention has been focussed, not unnaturally, on the now imminent reopening of the East London Railway, it is not the ...
[UPDATE: Have added Hoxton Pictures - JB] Thanks to Yowser for the Shadwell photos (including the highlighting in the first, ...
This piece was intended originally simply to be a summary of the recent Parliamentary Thameslink debate, which my colleague Mwmbwls had ...
With the Jubilee Upgrades set to continue for some time yet, there has been much talk of upcoming closures. At the ...
JB’s recent posting concerning the building work for Tesco at Elmers End prompted me to check the position of another ...
378137 passes through Silwood Junction on a training run from New Cross to Dalston Junction 378137 approaches New Cross on ...
Last week, a story appeared on the Marketing magazine website covering the decision to give brand consultants Saffron the contract to ...
Willesden depot will see some new visitors arriving later this spring, with eight Class 172 arriving to replace the existing Class ...
Work began last week on providing a purpose-built bus interchange alongside the Tramlink/Station at Elmers End. The works are taking ...
With iBus now fully rolled out, TfL have begun to consult on the locations for the new version of the Countdown ...
Things are looking advanced at New Cross Gate: Looking towards New Cross ...
Inanimate objects have a mind of their own and they are out to get you. You can guarantee that as soon ...
Are you content to be known as a high fare Mayor? – John BiggsNo, because it is quite obviously untrue. ...
Traffic levels on the Sub-surface Lines. Announcement boards at Whitechapel. Jubilee Line compensation. Turning off escalators. The PPP Arbitration. Simultaneous closures ...
The new costs of the 18. Reducing bus services. Taking the 603 to the Royal Free. Differing seat heights. Bus emissions. ...
The Tramlink on the Underground map. Extending the Tramlink. Why is the Tramlink System not always shown on the ...
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, ...
Heads of Africa on show at the Kingdom of Ife
Figures brought from the lost kingdom of Ife are reminiscent of Renaissance portraiture if only we knew more of their ...
Good cause, great photography for A Positive View
The 118 photographs for A Positive View set a remarkable standard. Curator Nadim Samman has hung work by Chinese, African and ...
Get a close up of The Indian Portrait show
As Ben Luke walked round The Indian Portrait show, he found himself wishing he had brought a magnifying glass. ...
Pop goes politics for Richard Hamilton
Richard Hamilton is often described as a British Andy Warhol but, as a new show of his political works proves, ...
Creatives cutting loose in British Design Awards
Like a jumble sale of design, the Brit Insurance Design Awards is an addictive exhibition of nearly 100 works from the ...
Mat Collishaw's fitting tribute to a master of the big screen
Mat Collishaw faced an unenviable task in being commissioned by the BFI to respond to the films of Sergei Parajanov. ...
Passionate vision from Billy Childish
It says everything about the ICAs difficulties in establishing its purpose that its latest exhibition is dedicated to Billy Childish. ...
Does Henry Moore deserve his monumental reputation?
He may have been the worlds last great figurative sculptor but much of Henry Moores work now seems wilfully ugly. ...
The mighty Irving Penn
Could elderly photographer Irving Penn have revealed himself this one last time? ...
Michelangelo and his boy
The drawings that the Renaissance master presented to his beautiful young pupil, now on show at the Courtauld Gallery, are extraordinary ...
Deutsche Borse Prize selection vying for a priceless showacse
The Deutsche Borse Prize shortlist shares diversity and fascination but lacks eye-opening originality. ...
Arshile Gorky is mother's boy
The Armenian-born Arshile Gorky was fêted as the father of American Abstract Expressionism but his art is compelling only when ...
Theo van Doesburg: A shock to the system
Theo van Doesburg, a zealot who founded the most coldly inhuman art movement of the 20th century, is the subject of ...
Jonathan Yeo goes from porn to politics
His painting of David Cameron has just sold for £200,000, making Jonathan Yeo our favourite portraitist. ...
Photo I, Photo You is worth a shot
Nebojsa Soba Serics ongoing documentary of the battlefields of Europe sadly lacks a distinctive angle in Photo I, Photo You. ...
Saatchi takes a trip to India
The Empire Strikes Back focuses on India. And just like all those other shows, it is a mixed bag ...
Please don't give Chris Ofili any more money
Tate Britains new retrospective does nothing to justify the lavish praise and state support he has benefited from. ...
John Craxton is an inspiration
John Craxton, to be honoured in a memorial service next week, was a brilliant painter and teacher why is he ...
All the fun of the flares in Abbaworld
The all-singing, all-dancing Abbaworld exhibition may be the closest we'll get to an Abba reunion. ...
Heavenly visions of 150 years of photography
The immense scale of When Three Dreams Cross means this is only a taster - but even with minimal information, the ...
Chris Ofili - the painter of paradise
Chris Ofili is back in the country after five years in Trinidad with a major show at Tate Britain and a ...
Van Gogh and his demons
Mad as a hatter, driven to suicide by the failure of his genius, the real Vincent Van Gogh remains elusive in ...
William Eggleston - the man who saw the beauty of colour
William Eggleston's influence is universal and now we see beauty where "the Father of Colour Photography" saw it then ...
It's an antiques roadshow at V&A's Medieval and Renaissance galleries
Grand masterpieces jostle with trinkets in the V&A's new £32 million Medieval and Renaissance galleries ...
On the Move is an engaging, thought-provoking show
In On the Move, Jonathan Miller gathers works by the pioneers of movement such as the British-born photographer Eadweard Muybridge ...
Figures brought from the lost kingdom of Ife are reminiscent of Renaissance portraiture if only we knew more of their ...
The 118 photographs for A Positive View set a remarkable standard. Curator Nadim Samman has hung work by Chinese, African and ...
As Ben Luke walked round The Indian Portrait show, he found himself wishing he had brought a magnifying glass. ...
Richard Hamilton is often described as a British Andy Warhol but, as a new show of his political works proves, ...
Like a jumble sale of design, the Brit Insurance Design Awards is an addictive exhibition of nearly 100 works from the ...
Mat Collishaw faced an unenviable task in being commissioned by the BFI to respond to the films of Sergei Parajanov. ...
It says everything about the ICAs difficulties in establishing its purpose that its latest exhibition is dedicated to Billy Childish. ...
He may have been the worlds last great figurative sculptor but much of Henry Moores work now seems wilfully ugly. ...
Could elderly photographer Irving Penn have revealed himself this one last time? ...
The drawings that the Renaissance master presented to his beautiful young pupil, now on show at the Courtauld Gallery, are extraordinary ...
The Deutsche Borse Prize shortlist shares diversity and fascination but lacks eye-opening originality. ...
The Armenian-born Arshile Gorky was fêted as the father of American Abstract Expressionism but his art is compelling only when ...
Theo van Doesburg, a zealot who founded the most coldly inhuman art movement of the 20th century, is the subject of ...
His painting of David Cameron has just sold for £200,000, making Jonathan Yeo our favourite portraitist. ...
Nebojsa Soba Serics ongoing documentary of the battlefields of Europe sadly lacks a distinctive angle in Photo I, Photo You. ...
The Empire Strikes Back focuses on India. And just like all those other shows, it is a mixed bag ...
Tate Britains new retrospective does nothing to justify the lavish praise and state support he has benefited from. ...
John Craxton, to be honoured in a memorial service next week, was a brilliant painter and teacher why is he ...
The all-singing, all-dancing Abbaworld exhibition may be the closest we'll get to an Abba reunion. ...
The immense scale of When Three Dreams Cross means this is only a taster - but even with minimal information, the ...
Chris Ofili is back in the country after five years in Trinidad with a major show at Tate Britain and a ...
Mad as a hatter, driven to suicide by the failure of his genius, the real Vincent Van Gogh remains elusive in ...
William Eggleston's influence is universal and now we see beauty where "the Father of Colour Photography" saw it then ...
Grand masterpieces jostle with trinkets in the V&A's new £32 million Medieval and Renaissance galleries ...
In On the Move, Jonathan Miller gathers works by the pioneers of movement such as the British-born photographer Eadweard Muybridge ...