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Frieze Masters – The Highlights

Expect collaborations and contrasts as galleries team up to present their work

8 Oct 2015

Art critic Brian Sewell has died aged 84

Sewell, who worked at the Evening Standard for 30 years, was one of Britain’s most famous and acerbic critics

19 Sep 2015

Autumn Art Highlights: London

Look forward to frantic Frieze Week festivities and quality museum shows in the UK capital

16 Sep 2015

Drawing the Curtain

Why paint a curtain? A look at the long tradition of depicting trompe l’oeil curtains in painting

15 Aug 2015

Tate Britain appoints Alex Farquharson as new director

What should we expect from Tate Britain’s new director, and what does his appointment mean for the future of the Tate overall?

29 Jul 2015

Which visual artist should be on the £20 banknote?

We have a few ideas…

20 May 2015

Packing a Punch: Ten highlights from the London Original Print Fair

Modern and contemporary works steal the show this year

23 Apr 2015

London Diary: 8 March

Mary Moore vs the YBAs; this month’s most covetable exhibition catalogue; and Alex Katz’s trousers

8 Mar 2015

Diary: The Whitworth Art Gallery

Maria Balshaw on the gallery’s grand reopening in Manchester

2 Feb 2015

‘Wojciech Fangor. Colour-Light-Space’ curated by de Pury de Pury

One of Poland’s most highly regarded living artists presents mesmerising large canvases of shimmering colour

17 Dec 2014

Jack Kirkland

34, London, UK

27 Aug 2014

New Art Gallery at Goldsmiths

Plans have been unveiled for a new gallery at Goldsmiths, to be designed by London-based architecture collective Assemble

29 Jul 2014

The Week’s Muse: 5 July

News and comment from the Muse Room: arts funding winners and losers, Scottish contemporary artists, and the women behind abstraction

5 Jul 2014

Abstraction and Representation: women artists and contemporary art

The complex relationship between women artists and abstract art is only just being explored

3 Jul 2014

First Look: ‘Somewhat Abstract’ at Nottingham Contemporary

Alex Farquharson tells us more about the exhibition, the artists, and the unexpected origins of the show’s title

10 Apr 2014

Art14: Balancing Acts

Putting together a new fair is a challenge – it needs to have a distinctive direction to it

1 Mar 2014

Darkness Visible

‘Paul Klee: Making Visible’ at Tate Modern is rigorous but incurably serious – is it the right setting for such complex and colourful work?

18 Oct 2013

Small Wonders: Abbot Hall

Helen Watson, director of exhibitions and collections at the Abbot Hall Art Gallery, speaks to Apollo

13 Oct 2013

Acme Corporation

The Whitechapel Gallery celebrates Acme Studios’ avant-garde roots, but is it now just urban ruin-porn for London’s property developers?

5 Oct 2013

20/21 British Art Fair

Roisin Astell speaks with some of this year’s exhibitors and bumps into Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood…

13 Sep 2013