The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller review – yours for half a billion

Christie’s, King Street, London
Picasso’s bolshy flower girl is just one of the rare gems to be glimpsed in London before this vast private collection goes under the hammer

Best travel book of the year: Kapka Kassabova’s Border wins Stanford Dolman award

A timely account of a fraught part of Europe is named Stanford Dolman travel book of the year. Here, one of the judges heralds a master storyteller and gives an overview of the nominees

London fashion week storms the palace (and the galleries)

Buckingham Palace showcases Commonwealth talent as Erdem portrays ruling-class glamour

A whirl through Vienna’s modernist era, 100 years on

Celebrating a century at the heart of the modernist movement, the Austrian capital is putting on quite a show

Marina Abramović: ‘I am not interested in small questions’

As a new show looks back on her early work, the trailblazing performance artist talks about her extensive career, controversy and sexual harassment in the art world

The view from the front row: a history of the fashion show – photo essay

Once, photographers were banned from fashion shows, with designers suspecting they were spies. Today, fashion shows are a multimillion-dollar global business. As London fashion week begins, we cart the evolution of the fashion show, from secret salons to the snap-happy Instagram era