Tag: Culture
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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
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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
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London fashion week storms the palace (and the galleries)
Buckingham Palace showcases Commonwealth talent as Erdem portrays ruling-class glamour
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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
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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
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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