Tag: Art and design
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Miuccia Prada: I hate the idea of being a collector. I really hate it
She’s one of the industry’s biggest names but thinks life is about ideas, not frocks. Armani described her designs as ‘ugly’ but they remain hugely desired. She has opened a giant gallery in Milan but doesn’t like being called a collector. So exactly who is Miuccia Prada?
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V&A conservators race to preserve art and design classics in plastic
Materials that reshaped design in the 20th century are now showing signs of degradation due to the instability of plastics
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Tate Modern at 15: still delivering the shock of the new
The Bankside museum has transformed modern art from an elite cult into mass entertainment, but is it time to get down to some proper studying?
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Splurging £102.6m on Picasso’s Women of Algiers is simply insane
The record-breaking price paid for a late, ungreat work shows the foolishness of collectors infected by a dumb new buzz around the artist
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Turner prize 2015: an end to the same-old same-old. Bring it on!
The jury of this year’s prize are doing what they should do – giving intriguing new art a platform. They’ve certainly piqued this critic’s curiosity
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From the car park to the catwalk: how fashion embraced street art
A new line of sunglasses designed by ‘graffiti artist’ Mr Brainwash are just the latest example of fashion’s longstanding love of people who write on walls