Centre Point and the Hoover building review – from beasts to beauties

Denounced as vulgar when they were built, these newly desirable London landmarks have been reborn as luxury flats boasting distinctive dimensions as well as chequered pasts

Damien Hirst hates sausages! How Instagram became art’s new playground

Twisted selfies from Cindy Sherman, strange fruit from Wolfgang Tillmans, skull revelations from Damien Hirst … as artists muscle in on the app, what have we learned about them?

Former swimming baths in south London to reopen as art gallery

Turner prize winners Assemble are designing £4m gallery, which will open in September

Galeries Lafayette heir joins French tycoons in opening art foundation

Guillaume Houzé’s cultural centre will rival that of France’s richest man, Bernard Arnault

Pensioner stunned as old vase kept in a shoebox fetches £381,000

Unnamed UK buyer pays record sum for Hans Coper piece – bought for £250 in the 1970s – suggesting a boom in ceramics market