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Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirrors reignites art’s selfie debate

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As the Japanese artist’s Instagram-ready works come to Los Angeles, does the city’s obsession with self-image make it the ideal locale or the nadir?

Live it up: the celebrity homes that anyone can rent

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Fancy a holiday in Jimi Hendrix’s ‘gingerbread house’ or Kurt Cobain’s graffiti-riddled Los Angeles flat – and willing to pay a premium for the pleasure?

Rowan Moore’s top 10 exhibitions of 2014

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Parking lots in Los Angeles, arty wind tunnels, Dada collages and 1960s visions of future living – Rowan Moore picks his favourite shows of the year

Porsche Meets Pixar: What Happens When a Sports Car Brand Starts Playing With Toys

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There’s a version of brand strategy that makes complete sense on a spreadsheet and absolutely zero sense at a dinner party. Porsche teaming up with Disney and Pixar to build three custom 911s inspired by Woody, Buzz Lightyear, and Jessie from Toy Story is, emphatically, that version. And yet — somehow — it works. The … Read more

Kohler Just Built a Sanctuary. The Bees Got One Too.

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There is a moment, somewhere between lowering yourself into a deep cast-iron bath and watching candlelight flicker across copper-warm walls, when the bathroom stops being a room and becomes something else entirely. A sanctuary. A ceremony. A place where time, however briefly, belongs only to you. That is the experience Kohler and Richard Christiansen — … Read more