Art and design – Page 69

Sex sells: why Modigliani’s 98-year-old hymn to lust is worth $170m

Nov 11, 2015

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Painted through an absinthe haze as the first world war raged, Amedeo Modigliani’s Nu couché mixes modernist thrills with age-old hedonism. No wonder it still seduces

The beauty of bikes – redesigning two wheels

Nov 10, 2015

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Editorial Team

in Sport & Health

The bicycle’s technical evolution and symbolic power are soon to be celebrated in Cycle Revolution at London’s Design Museum

Dutch museum achieves the impossible with new Hieronymus Bosch show

Oct 26, 2015

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Editorial Team

in Art

To mark the artist’s 500th anniversary, the director of small Dutch museum secures 20 of 25 surviving panels by ‘the devil’s painter’

‘It’s an insult’: Chinese property developers race to the top of London’s skyline

Oct 23, 2015

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Editorial Team

in Business, Real Estate

Giant luxury towers (with their own karaoke rooms) to spring up around the city as eastern investors look to Britain. But residents fear deals will force them out