Culture

Christo: London Mastaba; Tomma Abts – reviews

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Serpentine galleries, London
Christo’s floating installation makes a big first impression, but can’t match the brilliance of Tomma Abts’s canvases

Van Gogh leggings and Tracey teacups: how art merch broke out of the gift shop

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Jackson Pollock socks, Louise Bourgeois eyemasks, Guerrilla Girls air freshener … what’s behind the explosion in art merchandise – and who’s really making the money?

Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up review – forget the paintings, here’s her false leg

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V&A, London
By focusing on Kahlo’s life and her suffering rather than her art, this memorabilia-stuffed exhibition stifles her blazing visionary brilliance

A hot dog bus and a snowman in June: the best in US public art this summer

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With skyscraper video art in California and 26ft statue of Marilyn Monroe in Connecticut, there are now even more reasons to stay outside this season

Yves Saint Laurent co-founder’s rare art and artefacts to go on sale

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Pierre Bergé’s eclectic items, which includes 1961 Picasso sculpture, up for auction