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Tag: Life and style
Andy Warhol’s inaugural ‘selfie’ expected to fetch £7m at auction
14 June 2017 • Mark Westall
Print from 1963 based on photo-booth image of artist obsessed with cult of celebrity to be sold at auction for first time
Judy Chicago on the Beatles: ‘They represent things we have lost – hope and freedom’
1 June 2017 • Syndicate
For Sgt Pepper’s 50th anniversary, the great psychedelic visionary of feminist art has created a giant mop-top mural inspired by Fixing a Hole – a song that sums up what she has spent her entire career doing
Life at the sharp end: Jessie Knight, Britain’s first female tattoo artist
14 March 2017 • Syndicate
A stuntwoman and artist, this 20th-century trailblazer was slandered and robbed by her rivals. As a new exhibition assesses the history of British tattoos, we reappraise the life of a radical
Martin Creed’s bleak anti-carol should be Christmas No 1
7 December 2016 • Mark Westall
With his song It’s You, Turner-winning artist Martin Creed has made the perfect antidote to the commercialised positivity of Christmas
Olafur Eliasson: ‘It’s not just food being shared, but ideas’
21 April 2016 • Syndicate
Best known for his giant sun at Tate Modern, artist Olafur Eliasson is also passionate about food – chiefly, feeding hungry assistants at his vast Berlin studio. Marina O’Loughlin pulls up a pew
Damien Hirst and Mark Hix: ‘We could do Viagra oysters at the restaurant’
20 April 2016 • Mark Westall
The artist and the restaurateur behind Pharmacy 2 form a comic double act with tales of magic mushrooms, mortuaries, and why ‘food is like art without the evidence’
Tracey Emin’s luxury penis bracelet works like a charm on me
21 January 2016 • Staff
Emin’s latest venture – a designer jewellery line – reveals in miniature her strengths as an artist who always has something new and eloquent to say
Empty Spanish church transformed into ‘Sistine chapel’ of skateboarding
18 December 2015 • Mark Westall
A group of skateboard enthusiasts and a Madrid street artist convert abandoned church into mural-covered skatepark
Evolution of sneakers explored at Brooklyn Museum exhibition
9 July 2015 • Mark Westall
The cultural impact of designs such as the Air Jordan and Rick Owen’s high-end efforts chart how the footwear went from casual runaround to chic statement
Southbank Centre bans street art event celebrating skate park’s salvation
27 January 2015 • Mark Westall
After a ceremonial event to mark the preservation of the hallowed undercroft is blocked, skaters must question how open the space really is
Why stars love Polaroid’s retro chic: no risk of embarrassing uploads on the net
9 November 2014 • Mark Westall
Revival for photo format joins other analogue passions endorsed by new celebrity generation
The cake that looks like a Mondrian painting
17 April 2013 • Mark Westall
Could these sweets, inspired by great artists, be the perfect thing to round off a stylish dinner party?
V&A exhibition shows how David Bowie shaped fashion history
18 March 2013 • Mark Westall
The Starman leotards and Ziggy Stardust bodysuit are still dazzling, but tailoring is the real star of this show
Read music critic Alexis Petridis’s verdict on the exhibition
Olivia Bee: ‘People don’t take me seriously – until they see me work’
24 February 2013 • Mark Westall
Brooklyn-based photography prodigy Olivia Bee is only 18 and has already shot advertising campaigns for the likes of Nike, Converse and Hermès – and her ambition doesn’t end there
Smarties with Andy Warhol
17 February 2013 • Mark Westall
How best to get the artist’s attention? Offer him some chocolate
Punk fashion celebrated at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art
12 February 2013 • Mark Westall
Organisers hope exhibition of punk fashion at the Costume Institute has the power to shock – and draw the crowds
Textile futures: the living shoe and the strawberry plant that grows lace
24 January 2013 • Mark Westall
What will we be making shoes out of in 2080? And will our clothes come from fruit? One college course studies exactly that
Juergen Teller: fame laid bare
8 January 2013 • Mark Westall
As his new show opens at the ICA, one of fashion’s most successful and extreme photographers talks about his father, German guilt and making Kate Moss cry
Pull up a chair: inside the V&A’s brilliant new furniture gallery
29 November 2012 • Mark Westall
The V&A’s vast collection of furniture – from Jonathan Swift’s bureau to Ron Arad’s swervy bookcase – has a new home that is breathing new life into old wood
Heart-stopping Frieze art fair unveiled
1 October 2012 • Mark Westall
Modern-art institution returns to Regent’s Park with projects to include cooking with vermin and a gallery owner’s cardiac arrest
David Bowie: the mannequin who fell to earth
20 August 2012 • Mark Westall
The V&A plans to use David Bowie’s exotic costumes to chart his life and times in an exhibition next year
Francesco Vezzoli plans 24-hour museum to vainglorious decadence
17 January 2012 • Mark Westall
Italian artist has charmed Helen Mirren into a toga for art that is sublime and sometimes debauched celebration of celebrity