Architecture, opera, fashion, parapsychology … this year’s contenders are taking contemporary art into exciting new territory. We sent our experts to meet the artists on the shortlist
Also known as the ‘bedazzler’, they’re the person who turns ordinary microphones into pop stars’ must-have fashion accessories – transforming an ordinary stadium show into a shining spectacle
For more than 50 years Yoko Ono has been campaigning – for peace, for feminism, for gun control and, most recently, against fracking. This tireless activism, she says, is at the heart of her work as an artist. Alex Needham meets her at home in New York
However well-connected it makes us, cyberspace is lonely. That’s why, more and more, we are looking for live experiences
The singer’s planned building works on his London home have got his guitarist neighbour up in arms. But they’re not the only celebrity neighbours antagonising each other with grandiose reconstruction plans
Fancy a holiday in Jimi Hendrix’s ‘gingerbread house’ or Kurt Cobain’s graffiti-riddled Los Angeles flat – and willing to pay a premium for the pleasure?