Latest articles by Nick Compton
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The dark side of photography: Broomberg & Chanarin uncover uncomfortable truths -
Limited-edition Hermès Editeur scarves by Hiroshi Sugimoto -
Drawing parallels: Martin Parr pays tribute to Tony Ray-Jones -
Roz Barr explores post-pandemic office architecture at London’s Design DistrictA new workspace, Bureau, is about to launch at the Design District in London. We talk to its creator Roz Barr about how it responds to pandemic-induced changes in the ways we work and what office architecture means for this new creative hub at the Greenwich Peninsula
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'My Red Homeland': Anish Kapoor presents his first Russian solo showS-Curve, 2006, a curving concave then convex mirror; and My Red Homeland, 2003, a melted red wax wall. But they are handsomely mounted in the centre’s large gallery spaces and, here, less is definitely more. Kapoor’s work demands a lot of empty space and they get it.
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Cheers to that: Open House 2021 celebrates London pubsOpen House 2021 is accompanied by an extensive survey of the social and architectural history of London pubs in the shape of a book, Public House
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An intoxicating Whitney Biennial bets big on abstraction, identity and super-sharp videoIn the planning stage since 2019, when the world was a very different place, the 80th Whitney Biennial will run until 6 September 2022
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’Martino Gamper: Design is a State of Mind’ at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery in London -
Found Muji -
Hub culture: how Second Home is engineering the new creative hothouse -
Running brand On fixes the ‘broken experience' of shoe shoppingIn a year that pressed pause on the world, high-tech running brand On only gained momentum
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Vitra Design Museum unmasks the new face of African design -
Martin Parr’s witty portrayal of British domestic life in the 1990s opens at Beetles & Huxley -
There’s brew love in a new lager saga: Daniel Noah Sheikh reinvents beer -
Mercedes EQE tiptoes around a revolution to inch EV design forwardsWe road test the new Mercedes-Benz EQE, the car that may ease the Mercedes E-Class customer into the electric age – balancing the formal experimentation that EVs allow with the familiar
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Layer unveils giant installation for Cosentino at Milan’s Central StationOpening during Salone del Mobile, Raytrace is inspired by the interplay of light and water
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teamLab: how a Tokyo art collective pioneered an immersive art boomWith an operatic intervention and a show at Pace Geneva, teamLab, the now-700-strong Tokyo-based collective that blazed a trail for experiential, tech-fuelled art, continues to value ‘physical interaction in physical space’
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La Hütte Royal: artist Thorsten Brinkmann's radical transformation of an ordinary Pittsburgh house -
Polish artist Wojciech Fangor’s mesmerising paintings inaugurate a new London gallery -
The Handbuilt Bicycle, Museum of Arts and Design -
The grand-père of photojournalism: Henri Cartier-Bresson -
Apple’s glowing glass sphere is the newest spectacle on Singapore’s skylineDesigned by Foster + Partners, the new Apple Marina Bay Sands store, due to open on Thursday, is a self-supporting dome entirely surrounded by water
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Apple re-opens London flagship with a new look by Foster + Partners -
Rick Owens’ ’Prehistoric’ new furniture collection
