Former swimming baths in south London to reopen as art gallery
Turner prize winners Assemble are designing £4m gallery, which will open in September
Art and design
1,000-year-old silk shirt expected to fetch £500,000 at auction
Golden garment made by Sogdian people decorated with images of ducks wearing scarves
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
London will lose creative crown if rents keep forcing artists out
Head of Space network issues warning in book marking 50th year of studios set up by artists Bridget Riley and Peter Sedgely
Totally Mexico: how fashion stole Frida Kahlo
A new V&A exhibition examines the artist’s enduring image. But is fashion’s co-opting of her aesthetic reductive or true to her maverick spirit?