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

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

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

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

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

‘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’