Latest articles by Nick Compton
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Mana Contemporary at Art Basel Miami 2015 -
Our roundup of Art Basel Miami's finest galleries of December 2015 -
Conrad Shawcross: exploring the work of British art’s brightest star -
Imitation of art?: Elmgreen & Dragset at Victoria MiroThe artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset are best known for grand-scale immersive installations tackling big issues. In End Station they built a fake New York subway station, an entire social housing block for Celebrity – The One and Many, the homes of an art collector and an architect in serious decline, and perhaps most famously, a fake Prada store in the Texas desert. The sublime is not their concern. Neither, on the whole, do they do minimal or personal. ‘Self-Portraits’, the duo’s new show at Victoria Miro’s Mayfair branch, is both. And it’s ever so simple.
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’Go to Hell or Atlanta, Whichever Comes First’: Kara Walker’s debut London show -
Gautier Deblonde captures artists’ inner sanctums in new book ’Atelier’ -
South African Architects Directory -
Quadror by Studio Dror -
Bally's New Bond Street flagship by David Chipperfield is a study in Swiss modernism -
Greenland's Qaammat Pavilion for Unesco celebrates land and peopleArchitect Konstantin Ikonomidis designs Qaammat, a pavilion just above the Arctic Circle in Greenland, that celebrates the local landscape and the Inuit community
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Smooth operator: the modern dandy needs to be suave to a T -
New Court, Rothschild London HQ, by OMA -
Big bounce: art and sole collide in an uplifting offering from Marc Newson and Nike -
Imprimerie du Marais and Ateliers Saint-Lazare renovate French industrial classicFrench architecture studio Ateliers Saint-Lazare creates a new design-led home for Paris’ printing house, Imprimerie du Marais
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Tate Britain celebrates the short but seismic age of New Brutalism -
Eye spy: Stan Douglas goes undercover at London’s Victoria Miro -
’Sculpture 4tet’? A new four-man show at Marian Goodman Gallery, London -
Sculptor Sarah Sze makes a sharp turn to glass at Berengo Studio in Murano -
Sculptor Lynn Chadwick’s angular metal figures star in a series of international shows, starting in London -
Second Home brings SelgasCano Serpentine Pavilion to Los AngelesAhead of Second Home’s September opening in LA to a SelgasCano-designed building, the co-working operation brings the Madrid-based architect’s 2015 Serpentine Pavilion to the La Brea Tar Pits
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Earth-shaking new products, prototypes, experiences and immersions with our new Wallpaper* Moonshots Division -
Miami Art Masters displays classics (old and new) in a hyper-modern Hibiscus Island private residence -
Fujifilm X-E1 -
High-camp: a pair of Catherine Opie solo shows at Lehmann Maupin, NY
