Tag: Culture
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Filthy rich: our tortured love affair with wealth porn
From Fifty Shades to Big Little Lies and Billions, what drives our fascination with seeing how the other half live?
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Salvador Dalí portrait of estranged sister Ana Maria up for auction
Figura de Perfil, painted a few years before the siblings’ relationship disintegrated, expected to fetch up to £1.2m at Bonhams
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Damien Hirst gives first glimpse of new Venice art – but can he win back critics?
With mysterious underwater objects hinting at monsters and ancient civilisations – including a $4m Medusa – Damien Hirst could be about to reverse years of creative decline
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The most expensive library in the world? Book Capella opens for Russian elite
Charging around £100 per visit to its pricey collection, it’s not clear if this is an actual library or just a novel spot for wealthy Russians to hold meetings
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Mies’s Mansion House Square: the best building London never had?
Mies van der Rohe’s plans for an office tower in the City were scuppered by Prince Charles’ criticism and Margaret Thatcher’s fear of new public space – yet this tale has as much to do with shifts in public opinion against modernist architecture
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Inside Dior and the rise of mansplaining in style documentaries
The latest film to give us a behind-the-scenes look at the female-dominated fashion industry is just one of many to patronise the people who make this world tick