Latest articles by Nick Compton
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Daan Roosegaarde’s Space Waste Lab launches into orbit
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'Kraftwerk - The Catalogue 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8' at Tate Modern, London
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Pittsburgh’s Mattress Factory invites artists to create room-sized installations
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Southern delights: Este Arte’s second edition opens in Punta del Este, Uruguay
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Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn on design as a powerful tool of change
Design Emergency began as an Instagram Live series during the Covid-19 pandemic and is now becoming a wake-up call to the world, and compelling evidence of the power of design to effect radical and far-reaching change. Co-founders Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn took over the October 2020 issue of Wallpaper* – available to download free here – to present stories of design’s new purpose and promise
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Artist Marcello Maloberti creates a public installation for the Zegna Foundation in Trivero
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Phillips auction house decamps to a new Berkeley Square base designed by Aukett Swanke
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Sarah Sze takes over London’s Victoria Miro galleries with a two-pronged show about time and space
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American artist Sarah Sze pulls apart her creative process
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Light house: James Turrell illuminates the Palladian masterpiece of Norfolk’s Houghton Hall
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Modern music: London’s Barbican sways to the tune of mountains and waves
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Screen time: digital displays bring art to your home at the touch of a button
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The V&A celebrates the 200th birthday of pioneering photographer Julia Margaret Cameron
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Mana Contemporary at Art Basel Miami 2015
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Our roundup of Art Basel Miami's finest galleries of December 2015
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Conrad Shawcross: exploring the work of British art’s brightest star
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Imitation of art?: Elmgreen & Dragset at Victoria Miro
The 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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Jean-Michel Othoniel’s gold-leaf glass sculptures herald a renaissance at the gardens of Versailles
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’Go to Hell or Atlanta, Whichever Comes First’: Kara Walker’s debut London show
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Gautier Deblonde captures artists’ inner sanctums in new book ’Atelier’
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South African Architects Directory
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Quadror by Studio Dror
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Bally's New Bond Street flagship by David Chipperfield is a study in Swiss modernism
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Greenland's Qaammat Pavilion for Unesco celebrates land and people
Architect Konstantin Ikonomidis designs Qaammat, a pavilion just above the Arctic Circle in Greenland, that celebrates the local landscape and the Inuit community
