London’s restaurants: a grotesque display of opulence
In the naked fetishisation of wealth that dominates the capital’s most fashionable eating places there are no critics
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Contemporary art isn’t original – even copying has been done before
The row around Marina Abramović is redundant, as the story of art is one of homages and remakes. But that’s not to say there isn’t a problem
Quiet billionaire’s Victorian art collection loaned to Leighton House
Many of the works in Juan Antonio Pérez Simón’s collection were last seen in the UK in the 1890s at the Royal Academy
Cartier and Montblanc owner in court action to stop online sale of counterfeits
Broadband providers fear impact of action by Richemont, which seeks to equate trademark and copyright infringement
The Hotel on Place Vendôme – review
Truffled antelope, anyone? Tilar J Mazzeo’s study of the Ritz hotel in Paris during Nazi occupation takes in sex, collaboration and Hermann Goring in a silk kimono
@HiddenCash: Twitter mystery man who leaves money to be found
The enigmatic philanthropist leaves $100 in envelopes in San Francisco as a social experiment in the redistribution of wealth – and has urged those who find the money to pass it on