Tag: Art and design
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Marina Abramović: ‘The planet is dying. We have to be warriors’
In an exclusive interview in Tasmania, the performance artist explains why she stays out of the studio, resists nostalgia … and how she ate three raw onions• Video: Have you got what it takes to follow the Abramovic method?• Zoe Williams: How I became a convert to the cult of Marina Abramovic• Marina Abramović’s weirdest…
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Beach cafe, billionaire’s retreat, wedding marquee: second lives of the Serpentine pavilions
Everyone from Ai Weiwei and Frank Gehry to Zaha Hadid has designed a folly for the Serpentine gallery, but what happens to these starchitect baubles after their summer in the sun?
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A natural fit: Margaret Howell on her fashion tribute to Barbara Hepworth
The fashion designer reveals how the first major Barbara Hepworth exhibition in London for almost 50 years at Tate Britain inspired a range of clothes
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The more time we spend glued to our iPhone cameras, the less we see
Apple’s iPhone 6 campaign is keen to remind us that we can all take beautiful photos. But while we stare into our screens we miss out on the richness of the world around us
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‘I prefer art to fast cars’: fund manager helps British Museum buy Picasso works
Hamish Parker, the modest but discerning benefactor, has donated millions to enable the museum to acquire prints by the great Spanish artist
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Prada and Louis Vuitton are the new patrons of art – shame they’re so boring
Fashion houses are pouring money into shiny new art galleries across Europe. It should be explosive, but sadly they’ve left their imaginations on the runway