Architects David Marks and Julia Barfield: how we made the London Eye
David Marks: ‘Our house and our livelihoods were on the line. Then – in front of the world’s media – it didn’t lift up’
The Guardian
Has art boxed itself into a corner?
They’ve starved, stripped and suffocated. We’ve seen them sleep, do shopping and read out lists. Now, PJ Harvey wants us to watch her record a whole album while she sits in a big box. Time to pack in art’s most claustrophobic trend?
1970s fashions billow back on to red carpet at Baftas 2015
Glamorous, louche and corset-free – the shapes of the let-it-all-hang-out decade have fans from Julianne Moore to Monica Bellucci
How Monet became blue chip: the language of wealthy art buyers
Painting of the Grand Canal expected to fetch up to £30m, amid surging interest from super-rich in Asia and Middle East
Sales of printed books fall by more than £150m in five years
New figures from Nielsen BookScan show continuing decline since 2009 as more and more readers migrate to ebooks
Welcome to Görlitz, the perfect German town that’s a movie star in its own right
The Grand Budapest Hotel has been nominated for nine Oscars – if only there was one for ‘best location’ so the eastern German town where it was filmed could win