Tag: Culture
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Salvador Dalí’s lobster telephone and Mae West lips sofa to be sold at auction
Renowned surrealist artworks among hundreds of objects from Edward James foundation to be sold by Christie’s
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A bigger splash: 35kg book of David Hockney’s artworks costs £1,750
Limited edition tome weighing in at 35kg has 450 prints dating back to 1953 – and a stand in the artist’s trademark colours
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David Bowie’s sombre art collection needs more space oddities
Aside from Jean-Michel Basquiat and Marcel Duchamp, there’s little provocation or pop art brashness in David Bowie’s art collection – instead he’s weirdly fascinated by 20th-century British painting
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‘You could disappear into it’: Anish Kapoor on his exclusive rights to the ‘blackest black’
Architect and artist defends controversial deal with developers of Vantablack, the blackest material ‘after a black hole’
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Foundation stone: leading architects on the homes that shaped them
How does your childhood home influence the one you make yourself? Seven leading architects look back at the foundations of their career
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John Pawson: ‘I love clear spaces. I love the absolute minimum’
The celebrated architect talks about his latest work – a new home for the Design Museum – and his dedication to clutter-free living