Art, Motoring

Automotive artistry

Automotive artistry

Though Art Basel Miami Beach is all but a distant memory (it closed on Sunday but we’re in art mode – things move on) a lasting legacy of this year’s fair, which by all accounts was the most over-the-top in years, is a sculpture by American artist Julian Schnabel. [Read more...]

Art, Travel

Jim Lambie goes Wyld

Jim Lambie goes Wyld

Given the glut of hotel openings across the capital next year (there are two cropping up in Leicester Square alone) it’s not surprising that W, the boutique chain de rigueur, are pulling out all the stops in celebration of their first London residence. [Read more...]

Art, Books

“We can’t stop here. This is bat country”

“We can’t stop here. This is bat country”

In recent years, public opinion of Hunter S. Thompson has waned; his writing has come to seem clichéd and overexposed, whilst film adaptations of his work, however entertaining, have done little to dispel the notion of Thompson as a farcical, cartoonish character (we’re looking at you Fear And Loathing…). [Read more...]

Art, Style

Claridge’s, Christmas and Coral

Claridge’s, Christmas and Coral

It’s a magic place, Claridge’s. Not only has the Mayfair hotel achieved a marriage between its illustrious -though never stuffy – heritage and a contemporary sense of creativity. It has also managed to maintain its long-standing place at the cutting edge of London’s social scene (no small task in a city which was recently voted the world’s best by the Parisians). [Read more...]

Art, Exhibitions

Who says you can’t take it with you?

Who says you can’t take it with you?

Eco-coffins made of newspaper or wicker may be all very trendy, but that’s not going to make you the envy of the cemetery. Ghanaian coffin-maker Paa Joe has a much better idea — a carved wooden coffin that represents your profession, or takes the shape of your most treasured or desired possession — and an exhibition of four of his more outlandish works opens today at Jack Bell Gallery in central London. [Read more...]

Art, Books

The sweet scent of Victore

The sweet scent of Victore

There aren’t many graphic design books that read like a political manifesto, but then James Victore — whose personal mantra is “Mad as hell” — is no ordinary graphic designer, as a new monograph reveals. [Read more...]

Art

The artist, the gallerist and Giorgio Armani

The artist, the gallerist and Giorgio Armani

What do you get when you cross two maverick gallerists, one insanely influential fashion designer and the life’s work of one of this generation’s most venerated artists? An exhibition that’s probably worth a look, that’s what. [Read more...]

Art

René Gruau and Dior at Somerset House

René Gruau and Dior at Somerset House

The night before last, an exhibition called Dior Illustrated: René Gruau and the Line of Beauty opened at Somerset House in London. [Read more...]