Category: Art
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‘You could disappear into it’: Anish Kapoor on his exclusive rights to the ‘blackest black’
Architect and artist defends controversial deal with developers of Vantablack, the blackest material ‘after a black hole’
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The Karlbox – the professional toolkit from Faber-Castell
“What amuses me while drawing is the fact to draw.” Karl Lagerfeld. For Karl Lagerfeld drawing is like breathing and writing. “These are things that almost relax me,” says the designer who presents his new project with German stationery and art company Faber-Castell. The KARLBOX is a unique homage to Karl Lagerfeld and an expression of…
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Sci-fi socialism and Soviet snowmobiles: the best of the London Design Biennale
Its presentation may seem hurried and chaotic, but the inaugural edition of this design gala brings eye-opening visions of utopia from all corners of the globe
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Philip Norman on the 60s: ‘I never took holidays because every day was like one’
As London’s V&A prepares to stage an exhibition assessing the cultural impact of the late 1960s, the Beatles biographer reflects on his experience of the time• The revolutionary artists of the 60s’ colourful counterculture
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Tate Britain project uses AI to pair contemporary photos with paintings
IK prize-winning system matches images from the 24/7 news cycle with centuries-old artworks and presents them online
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Retro lifestyles going digital
Maybe it all started with Mad Men. Since the cult series appeared on our screens in 2008, retro has become the cool tendency among Generation X. It is definitely thanks to Don Draper that Old Fashioned, Americano and other classic cocktails have been revived in upmarket bars between New York, London and Paris. Not to…