Critics' Choice: Now Showing

11 April 2012
The Weekender

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Few cities in the world can claim to have anything like London's selection of art - it has more galleries, museums and private collections than just about anywhere you care to think of.

And with some of the best critics on the art scene writing for the Evening Standard/This is London, there is no better guide... those of you looking for Brian Sewell's irreverent, thought-provoking and erudite columns will find them housed under their own button on the Days Out page...

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Artists who paint with pain
The work of 33 very different "outsider" artists, including paedophiles, manic-depressives, those suffering from autism and religious visionaries.
Until November 11...

Punk pics leave empty feeling
Raymond Pettibon and Toba Khedoori are two, like, totally radical Los Angeles artists. But is their show, you know, kinda flakey?
Until October 21...

Dad and me, swimming
Melanie Andrews was eight when her father, artist Michael Andrews, portrayed them both swimming in a Scottish rock pool. The painting has since become one of Tate Britain's best loved images.
Until October 7...

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