Tag: Culture
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Why Rio’s street artists hate the World Cup, and much more – the week in art
Brazil’s anti-World Cup graffiti, Antony Gormley’s hotel room inside a Transformer, plus Ai Weiwei sparks an internet craze of ‘leg-guns’ and Glasgow School of Art’s degree show goes ahead after the fire – all in your fave weekly dispatch
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The Chinese billionaire with six months to make the world’s tallest building
Zhang Yue was the first man in China to own a private jet, and his office is modelled on the Palace of Versailles. Now, he plans to save the planet by raising the world’s tallest building in just six months. A new documentary goes behind the scenes of the great Chinese eco gold rush
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US cinema chain bans Google Glass over piracy fears
Drafthouse Cinemas has outlawed the wearing of Google Glass while films are playing, following continued concerns about surreptitious illegal recording
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Contemporary art isn’t original – even copying has been done before
The row around Marina Abramović is redundant, as the story of art is one of homages and remakes. But that’s not to say there isn’t a problem
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Quiet billionaire’s Victorian art collection loaned to Leighton House
Many of the works in Juan Antonio Pérez Simón’s collection were last seen in the UK in the 1890s at the Royal Academy
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The Hotel on Place Vendôme – review
Truffled antelope, anyone? Tilar J Mazzeo’s study of the Ritz hotel in Paris during Nazi occupation takes in sex, collaboration and Hermann Goring in a silk kimono