A rare insight into the world of Lauren Bacall, the accomplished collector

Remembering Lauren Bacall. The International Preview Tour of the Bacall Collection. The collection of Lauren Bacall, acclaimed actress of stage and screen, is to go on international tour prior to its auction at Bonhams New York on 31 March and 1 April, announced Bonhams house, one of the world’s largest auctioneers of fine art and … Read more

How to have a high-brow 2015 in fashion

Fashion can be fun. But it can also be a form of art. Next year, fashion will be inspired by Jackson Pollock, Sofie Grabol and Barbara Hepworth

Victoria and Albert Museum’s ‘What is Luxury?’ explores the meaning and the history of luxury

What is Luxury? (25 April – 27 September 2015, a V&A and Crafts Council Exhibition) will interrogate ideas of luxury today. Victoria and Albert Museum asks ‘What is Luxury?‘ and how it relates to our everyday lives in a new exhibition challenging our definitions of what luxury means. “As its title suggests, the exhibition questions … Read more

The fashion icons setting trends for 2015

New year, new you! To help you with makeover inspiration, here are some of the stars whose style we’ll be chanelling in 2015

First there was the book – now there is the show. Taschen Gallery Launch

TASCHEN Gallery Launch: It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll, But We Like It. Famous art book publisher TASCHEN and English fashion and portrait photographer David Bailey celebrated the opening of the TASCHEN Gallery in Los Angeles, bringing to life the historic, SUMO-sized Rolling Stones book with the exhibition It’s Just a Shot Away: The Rolling Stones … Read more

Sweet in the middle: map reveals Americans’ art tastes, state by state

A new map made by eBay shows the most searched-for artists by its US customers – and it seems that in the midwest, all Americans want for Christmas is the corny, cosy art of Terry Redlin