BMW i8: car review
A tiny engine is not the obvious way to power a sports car. But BMW’s dramatic new plug-in hybrid doesn’t do the obvious. Martin Love test drives the i8
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Subversive design, radical Germans, and cultured holidays – the week in art
The V&A celebrates design as a form of protest, Isa Genzken brings her radical vision to Edinburgh, and we showcase the best exhibitions to catch on your summer travels – all in your weekly art newsletter
Halfway through 512 hours of Marina Abramović: no one to hear you scream
Our critic revisits Abramović’s residency at the Serpentine and finds its stifling silence and exam-style tasks evoke more production-line misery than mindfulness
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Cheetah smuggling driving wild population to extinction, report says
Rising demand for luxury pets in the Gulf states taking gruesome toll as two-thirds of snatched cubs are dying en route
Southwest Airlines upcycles 80,000 leather seats into bags, shoes and balls
From leather seats to tote bags and fish skin into luxury shoes, businesses are creating new value from waste streams
Secret oasis: the artist who’s hidden a swimming pool in the desert
Alfredo Barsuglia has put a swimming pool deep in the Mojave desert, which you need a treasure map to find. It’s a perfect parody of our world of instant gratification