Tag: UK Culture
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From lightning suits to algae-munching drones: how design is electrifying Dubai
The splashy projects by Zaha and Foster are back in business – and in the new design microcity, the world’s greatest graduate show is showcasing inventions by the best brains from 30 different countries
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Inside Vogue: A Diary of My 100th Year by Alexandra Shulman
‘Arrange to meet Kate Moss for coffee at 3. She eventually turns up five days later. I tell her I had nothing better to do than wait’
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David Bowie’s sombre art collection needs more space oddities
Aside from Jean-Michel Basquiat and Marcel Duchamp, there’s little provocation or pop art brashness in David Bowie’s art collection – instead he’s weirdly fascinated by 20th-century British painting
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A musical tour of Europe’s great cities: Prague
The city that cherished Mozart, inspired Smetana and Janáček and launched Dvořák is our current stop in our musical tour of Europe. Next week we visit Hamburg – leave your ideas below
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Sci-fi socialism and Soviet snowmobiles: the best of the London Design Biennale
Its presentation may seem hurried and chaotic, but the inaugural edition of this design gala brings eye-opening visions of utopia from all corners of the globe
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Astronaut coffee and DIY heart surgery – Designs of the Year unveiled
Ikea’s flat-pack refugee shelter, an online sexual health test and Taipei’s scooter share among ideas to go on show at London’s new Design Museum