Mary Katrantzou: my love affair with Guy Bourdin’s photography
As the biggest ever Guy Bourdin exhibition opens in London, fashion designer Mary Katrantzou talks about the French photographer’s influence on her work
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Art Basel, Miami and the beach that went boom
Lady Gaga’s recreating a painting from 1793 and Outkast’s André 3000 is showing off his jumpsuits. As the rich, famous and fabulous steer their jets to Miami, we look at how the art fair transformed the city
Putting art reproductions in their place
Letters: We place a much higher value on things that are rare or unique, provided they speak to us in some significant way
Farshid Moussavi: ‘We are in a world where ideas migrate’
The in-demand architect behind projects ranging from Parisian housing to Victoria Beckham’s Mayfair store talks about fashion, function and the power of physical space in a virtual world
Thomas Heatherwick plans $170m hovering miracle island for New York
The designer has dreamed up a Disneyfied island on stilts that boasts woodland, performance spaces and places to ‘wander and wonder’. But is this fairytale of urban planning too good to be true?
Flat, soulless and stupid: why photographs don’t work in art galleries
Photographs can be powerful, beautiful, and capture the immediacy of a moment like nothing else. But they make poor art when hung on a wall like paintings