Tag: Art and design
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Frank Lloyd Wright: fantasist or genius?
As an exhibition in New York marks 150 years since the birth of Frank Lloyd Wright, is it time for a reappraisal of this flawed hero of modernist architecture?
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V&A makes case for the rebellious beauty of Balenciaga
It is milder than McQueen, but there are monsters, ghosts and glamour in the museum’s account of a fashion giant
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How real books have trumped ebooks
The digital revolution was expected to kill traditional publishing. But print books are ever more beautifully designed and lovingly cherished
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Venice Biennale: slaps, drenchings and Dobermans on the prowl
The main show is a woolly walk through hand-wringing hippydom and flowerpot trainers. But elsewhere, the biennale bares its teeth in works of danger and daring
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Hot under the collar: Venice Biennale artist uses 27,000 neckties for installation
UK-based Israeli artist Michal Cole says work is ‘silent embroidered scream’ against global patriarchy
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Tate Modern names extension after billionaire Len Blavatnik
USSR-born billionaire made one of largest donations in Tate’s history to help fund building temporarily named Switch House