Christo: London Mastaba; Tomma Abts – reviews
Serpentine galleries, London
Christo’s floating installation makes a big first impression, but can’t match the brilliance of Tomma Abts’s canvases
exhibitions
Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up review – forget the paintings, here’s her false leg
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
‘Azzedine Alaïa couldn’t give a damn what other people said was the new mood’
Ahead of the first UK solo exhibition of the couturier’s work, former colleague Sophie Hicks remembers his exacting pursuit of fashion perfection
1,000-year-old silk shirt expected to fetch £500,000 at auction
Golden garment made by Sogdian people decorated with images of ducks wearing scarves
Picasso’s muse draws in the crowds at Tate blockbuster
Exhibition focuses on artist’s many portraits of Marie-Thérèse Walter in a pivotal year in his life
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