- "Hats are a passport to another world," declares Stephen Jones, the greatest milliner of his generation. Catherine St Germans considers his show of fanciful headgear at the V&A ...
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- Lucio Fontana worked to capture the shimmering ripples and reflections of Venice in his thick, textured paintings. As a rare work of his comes up for sale, Art.view finds meaning and nuance in its cream-coloured whorls ...
read more » - Sure, the peaceful transition of power is a hallmark of a democracy. And sure, there was quite a lot of drama around Barack Obama's assumption of the American presidency. But James C Taylor, a theatre critic, found it all a bit ho-hum, frankly ...
read more » - Our series on authors and museums continues with Helen Simpson’s choice: Villa Flora, a vine-clad private house near Zurich, where she is reuinited with a lazy, old friend ...
read more » - Riding over the bridge between Manhattan and Brooklyn, Colin Baker is transfixed by a curious set of lights on the skyline. He is reminded of a John Updike story he read when he was young ...
read more » - User-generated content is working wonders in the gaming industry. "Spore" is a fine example, except for all of those penis-shaped monsters, writes Tom Standage ...
read more » - Surf and the city are uniquely close in Sydney, where thousands of urbanites spend their days dreaming of the perfect break. Malcolm Knox, novelist and surfer, captures an obsession from the inside ...
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