From Brian Sewell, with love: tender gallery gift shows critic's softer side
Cutting columnist leaves Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée’s Maternal Affection to his beloved National Gallery
June 2016
Jonathan Jones on art
Brian Sewell's art collection is up for grabs – what does it reveal?
We know what he didn’t like, but a Christie’s auction of Sewell’s personal hoard of paintings sets his ferocious critical judgments against some muddled tastes
December 2015
The Observer's obituaries of 2015
Brian Sewell remembered by Maggi Hambling
The painter and sculptor recalls the knowledge, conviction and humour of the Evening Standard’s provocative art critic
November 2015
Greenslade
Max Hastings on Brian Sewell: extravagant, brilliant and bankable
‘He possessed the gifts of all successful polemicists: conceit, passion, wit, literary elegance and an instinctive suspicion of, and disdain for, power and wealth’
October 2015
Letter: Brian Sewell’s travels in Turkey
Brian Sewell spoke timely truth to power
September 2015
Why we wrote our ‘naive’ letter about Brian Sewell to the Evening Standard
The day Brian Sewell picked a fight with Princess Diana
We can’t leave it to the elite to decide who’s cultured
Dreda Say Mitchell
Brian Sewell's pungent views got people arguing – that’s what matters
Jonathan Jones
Brian Sewell’s best cutting critiques – in quotes
Brian Sewell obituary
Brian Sewell, ‘most controversial’ art critic, dies aged 84
April 2015
This much I know
Brian Sewell: ‘My need for sex has always been as frequent as my need for coffee’
The art critic, 83, on his love of dogs, travel and cars – and dying slowly and wretchedly
April 2014
Lunch with...
Brian Sewell: Tracey Emin's art is 'trivial' and Grayson Perry's is 'vulgar'
The critic is known for his acid tongue and hatred of modern art – Banksy should've been 'put down at birth' – but he loves to talk about Bacon (the painter, not the breakfast). Interview by Elizabeth Day
February 2014
Pass notes
Brian Sewell's hanging offence: how he faked a Hogarth and duped the Tate
Britain's most acerbic art critic has confessed that he once spotted a Hogarth, repainted it and flogged it to the Tate gallery. What would his fellow critics say?
November 2013
What I see in the mirror
What I see in the mirror: Brian Sewell
'With age and the inevitable dropping of lids, my eyes have become slits through which I peer, and I would quite like to see them again'
October 2013
Outsider II by Brian Sewell – review
The vitriolic art critic is a fine one to complain about vulgarity, judging by the contents of his latest memoir, writes Ben East
September 2013
Media Monkey
Media Monkey: Ed Miliband, Stephanie Flanders and Brian Sewell
Read Media Monkey's diary from the Monday print pages
June 2013
The debate
Brian Sewell: the BBC's factual television is an insult to the nation
Michael Hogan and Brian Sewell
Acerbic art critic Brian Sewell says most factual television – especially on the BBC – is disgracefully dumbed-down. TV writer Michael Hogan begs to differ
