Tag: Culture
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Why New York’s Metropolitan museum is leader of the free world of art
The Met, all set to rebuild its modern wing, mixes Rembrandts with Pollocks to create an unrivalled cocktail of past and present. Why can’t British art museums be as open-minded?
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Michael Schmidt wins Prix Pictet for sprawling global food series
German-born photographer beat Adam Bartos and other big names for an epic look inside factory farms, slaughterhouses and supermarkets• Farm to table: Michael Schmidt exposes the reality of what we eat – in pictures• Why our guilt about consumption is all-consuming – Slavoj Žižek on the theme of this year’s Prix Pictet
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Faking a fortune: why Damien Hirst’s paintings are poor imitations of art
A Florida pastor has been jailed for trying to sell fake paintings by the British artist. But why does the art world give Hirst’s talentless artworks any financial value at all?
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The art of noise: how music recording has changed over the decades
Technology provides crystal clear recordings of all the music in the world, at little or no cost. But, as a historical audio installation opens at the Science Museum, composer Christopher Fox asks why we won’t let go of our musical past
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Movers and makers: the most powerful people in the art world
As Frieze art fair opens in New York, our power primer traces the artists and dealers, celebrity collectors and oligarchs who make the art world go round
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Fashion fades but style is eternal: the return of rock’s women of the 70s
Three stars who broke the mould are back – and could today’s divas learn from their uncompromising stance?