Tag: Art and design
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From lightning suits to algae-munching drones: how design is electrifying Dubai
The splashy projects by Zaha and Foster are back in business – and in the new design microcity, the world’s greatest graduate show is showcasing inventions by the best brains from 30 different countries
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Hans-Ulrich Obrist tops list of art world’s most powerful
Artistic director of London’s Serpentine Galleries, dubbed ‘curator who never sleeps’, wins ArtReview’s accolade for second time
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Salvador Dalí’s lobster telephone and Mae West lips sofa to be sold at auction
Renowned surrealist artworks among hundreds of objects from Edward James foundation to be sold by Christie’s
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A bigger splash: 35kg book of David Hockney’s artworks costs £1,750
Limited edition tome weighing in at 35kg has 450 prints dating back to 1953 – and a stand in the artist’s trademark colours
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David Bowie’s sombre art collection needs more space oddities
Aside from Jean-Michel Basquiat and Marcel Duchamp, there’s little provocation or pop art brashness in David Bowie’s art collection – instead he’s weirdly fascinated by 20th-century British painting
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‘You could disappear into it’: Anish Kapoor on his exclusive rights to the ‘blackest black’
Architect and artist defends controversial deal with developers of Vantablack, the blackest material ‘after a black hole’