Category: Art
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Dalí in a diving helmet: how the Spaniard almost suffocated bringing surrealism to Britain
Eighty years ago, as Dylan Thomas served boiled string, Salvador Dalí put on a diving suit, grabbed a billiard cue – and changed British art for ever. Can new exhibition Surreal Encounters recapture that spirit?
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The shape of wearable art
Adornment-Contemporary Jewelry Exhibition showcased contemporary jewelry and carries on reflection and debate on the relationship between the jewel, design and fine art. Programmed within the largest event on design DesignVe and curated by Ilaria Ruggiero, the exhibition has been made possible thanks to the support of the prestigious Alchimia – Contemporary Jewellery School and under the…
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The best of the Chelsea flower show
This year’s gold and silver medallists at Chelsea, from the best in show Telegraph garden’s bronze fins to a garden for car enthusiasts
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First look: inside the Switch House – Tate Modern’s power pyramid
With its chainmail brickwork, vast spaces and panoramic views, the Tate’s £260m ziggurat is a mesmerising twist on the existing art gallery
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Jeff Koons: Now review – Damien Hirst’s joyless paean to Donald Trump of art
From sexed-up Hoovers to kitsch kids’ toys, Hirst’s celebration of his biggest artistic influence is empty of emotion, revealing the shallowness of his own art
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Reading without books is a pleasure available in multiple and unexpected forms @ mudac
What Will We Be Reading? Reading In All Its Forms @ mudac Mudac – The Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts (Lausanne, Switzerland) introduced the first exhibition on reading without books. “What Will We Be Reading?” starts from the idea that, far from disappearing, reading is a pleasure that can now be found in a…