‘Courage, elegance, grit’: architect David Adjaye makes history by winning RIBA award
For the first time in its 173-year history, RIBA awards its gold medal to a black architect – and his best, and strangest, work may be yet to come
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The museum of everything: do you have time to look at 150,000 exhibits?
In a world first, Rotterdam’s Boijmans museum has put its entire collection on display in a mammoth new warehouse. As the V&A considers a similar experiment, is this ‘open storage’ model the future?
Frank Gehry is using signature sculptural style to reinterpret Extra Old Cognac
World-renowned architect Frank Gehry unveiled a masterpiece decanter for Hennessy X.O. 150th Anniversary. Frank Gehry marries gold and glass to extol the rich legacy of the Hennessy Maison. The masterpiece cognac decanter designed by the famous architect in celebration of the 150th anniversary of Hennessy X.O. is a discovery of an unexpected sensorial experience. … Read more
‘Barefoot bookseller’ sought to run island bookshop in Maldives
Luxury resort says island is virtually Covid-free and wants a live-in book lover to provide guests with bespoke help for their ‘reading journeys’
When does street art become ‘art’ art?
Whether you think graffiti is a subversive, democratic art form or a public nuisance, it harks back to our cave-painting days
‘True beauty for the ages’: $80m Botticelli to appear at auction
Sotheby’s says estimate for 550-year-old painting is largest it has ever set for an old master