Tag: Art and design
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Thomas Heatherwick’s Coal Drops Yard – shopping in the Instagram age
Thomas Heatherwick’s ‘kissing’ roofs top a new high-end shopping mall in the old coal sheds. But why does the whole King’s Cross scheme not quite feel real?
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Mark Wallinger wants football teams in the UK to kick his artworks
Turner Prize winner’s artwork One World features a satellite photo of the world on a football
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New V&A East site to offer dramatic 360-degree viewing spaces
First glimpse of the Stratford site that will be ‘an immersive cabinet of curiosities’
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Hepworth Prize for Sculpture 2018 – from messy misery to a dash of magic
Firehoses, grenades and fibreglass sombreros feature in a shortlist that takes in Michael Dean’s evocation of economic despair and Cerith Wyn Evans’s sublime floating instrument
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Secular Retreat review – a simply miraculous piece of architecture
The Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has built ‘a gliding swan’ of a house in Devon that strikes a perfect balance between inside and out, whichever way you look
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A portrait created by AI just sold for $432,000. But is it really art?
An image of Edmond de Belamy, created by a computer, has just been sold at Christie’s. But no algorithm can capture our complex human consciousness