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  • Paula Rego in Kendal

    One of the best events of the summer, out of London (through 7 October) has been the exhibition, at the Abbot Hall Gallery, Kendal, in the Lake District, of works completed in the last three years by the Portugese painter…

  • Mystery burger unearthed

    In London, the Victoria and Albert Museum, in a recent delving, have just found a previously unidentified Hans Holbein miniature, thought to be of a goldsmith by the name of Hans. He was a close friend of Holbein, and set…

  • You beaut country

    In his foreword to the exhibition, Julian Agnew extolls the virtues of Australian culture:

  • Hieronymus Bosch

    Rotterdam, Musem Boijmans van Beuningen, through 11 November 2001.

  • Comment on September 11

    Some happenings are so extraordinary that they outweigh, at least for the present, their ramifications. No apocalyptic event before September was enacted in full view of almost the whole world. Billions of people watched on television as one of the…

  • Frank Auerbach: Paintings and Drawings 1954-2001

    The paintings on show at the RA have an effect that it would have been impossible to anticipate; the grand space of the galleries and the juxtaposition of the paintings achieve resonance which would have been impossible in smaller spaces.…

  • Surviving fragment

    Philippe de Montebello, the Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York has emerged as one of the strongest supporters of the idea that a monument should be created with the surviving fragment of one wall of the World…

  • Jewish Museum in Berlin opens Exhibition

    Jewish Museum in Berlin opens exhibition

  • Michael Andrews revisited

    If there was ever a clearer purpose and definition of the respective rationale behind the division of Tate works into Tate Modern and Tate Britain, the present retrospective of the painter Michael Andrews is a reassuring touchstone. Whereas  (not even…

  • Balthus

    Palazzo Grassi, Venice through January 2002