Tag: Art and design
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The view from the front row: a history of the fashion show – photo essay
Once, photographers were banned from fashion shows, with designers suspecting they were spies. Today, fashion shows are a multimillion-dollar global business. As London fashion week begins, we cart the evolution of the fashion show, from secret salons to the snap-happy Instagram era
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The £3bn rebirth of King’s Cross: dictator chic and pie-in-the-sky penthouses
Google HQ, boutique shops in old coal sheds, gasholders offering wedge-shaped flats at sky-high prices … as the vast project comes together after 18 years, our critic gives his verdict
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Picasso’s ‘Annabel’ – the rights and wrongs of renaming paintings
Richard Caring – owner of Annabel’s – has decided to retitle the artist’s Girl with a Red Beret and Pompom after his Mayfair club. It’s an arrogant move, but we shouldn’t be religious about the names we pin on art
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Exit through the gift shop: how fashion fell for museum merch
From Nike x MoMA to Jeff Koons x Louis Vuitton, a host of collaborations between fashion and art are popping up. From now on, expect to get your ‘it pieces’ from the gift shop
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From Picasso at his mightiest to gods of American cool: the hottest art shows of 2018
Picasso reveals his most erotic year, Andreas Gursky predicts the post-truth era, O’Keeffe and Hopper hit Oxford – and the only way is Sussex for William Blake in our exhibitions preview
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Why wood is back at the top of the tree for architects
Strong, clean and versatile, engineered timber is the ‘new concrete’. With wooden skyscrapers in the offing, could it be the answer to the global housing crisis?