‘I prefer art to fast cars’: fund manager helps British Museum buy Picasso works
Hamish Parker, the modest but discerning benefactor, has donated millions to enable the museum to acquire prints by the great Spanish artist
Museums
Prada and Louis Vuitton are the new patrons of art – shame they’re so boring
Fashion houses are pouring money into shiny new art galleries across Europe. It should be explosive, but sadly they’ve left their imaginations on the runway
Why Peggy Guggenheim’s heirs should keep their hands off her collection
Despite what the great collector’s relatives are saying in a legal proceeding, her intimate museum in Venice is one of the wonders of the modern art world – and has in no way betrayed her joyous vision
V&A conservators race to preserve art and design classics in plastic
Materials that reshaped design in the 20th century are now showing signs of degradation due to the instability of plastics
Tate Modern at 15: still delivering the shock of the new
The Bankside museum has transformed modern art from an elite cult into mass entertainment, but is it time to get down to some proper studying?
Rem Koolhaas crafts a spectacular ‘city of art’ for Prada in Milan
A new Roman Polanski film is being shown, Jeff Koons and Donald Judd artworks are strewn about, and Wes Anderson’s designed the kitsch cafe … in a scruffy industrial corner of Milan, Rem Koolhaas and Miuccia Prada have made a dazzling art space, so vast it’s practically a city. Oliver Wainwright is in awe