Tate Modern at 15: still delivering the shock of the new

The Bankside museum has transformed modern art from an elite cult into mass entertainment, but is it time to get down to some proper studying?

Rem Koolhaas crafts a spectacular ‘city of art’ for Prada in Milan

A new Roman Polanski film is being shown, Jeff Koons and Donald Judd artworks are strewn about, and Wes Anderson’s designed the kitsch cafe … in a scruffy industrial corner of Milan, Rem Koolhaas and Miuccia Prada have made a dazzling art space, so vast it’s practically a city. Oliver Wainwright is in awe

From the frow to the brow: how front row politics transcended fashion

Once upon a time, the most in-demand seat was on the front row of a Burberry show. Now it’s a seat courtside at the NBA playoffs and even in high-octane exercise classes

Beyond the bling: the most pointless luxuries ever

A bubble-bath necklace? A DNA vending machine? An unwearable gold hat that took 12 years to weave? Through a collection of priceless, pointless and surprising objects, the V&A’s new exhibition asks: what is luxury?