Absolut

Anne Imhof and Huey Copeland toasted at the 2017 Absolut Art Awards

Established in 2009, the Absolut Art Award is one of the largest art prizes in Europe. The 2017 winners were recently celebrated in Stockholm with a gala dinner and an art bar designed by Swedish DJ duo Studio Barnhus. Rather...

Artist Ana Prvacki mixes up a cocktail with divine appeal for Absolut at Art Basel

Following on from the ’Ghostess’ cocktail and elixir she devised for Absolut at the 2013 Venice Art Biennale, performance artist Ana Prvacki crafted another spirit-lifting concoction for guests at Art Basel last week. Like the first offering - which touched...

Total works of art: we round up restaurants and bars conceived by artists as ’Gesamtkunstwerke’

Art Basel Miami Beach 2013: The Florida fair steps out of the shadows of its Swiss sibling

Inflatable Swiss chalets, huge easter eggs and bare-breasted women beating resin blocks in a public park. It’s the first week of December, and once again in Miami, the art fair has come to town, with this year activities neatly bookended...

Design Miami/ Basel 2013: an insider’s view

The 2013 edition of Design Miami at Art Basel is a new and most definitely improved version of the twice yearly exhibition that brings together international design galleries each December in Miami and every June in Basel to show their...

Saatchi Gallery spotlights the art world’s new sensations at Frieze Art Fair

As Frieze Art Fair becomes more and more entrenched on London’s art scene, emerging artists are benefiting from the art mania that descends on the city each autumn. New Sensations is probably the most visible example of that trickle-down effect...

Kirlian Bar by Jeremy Shaw at Art Basel

Jeremy Shaw, a 35 year old Vancouver native and naturalised Berliner, is an artist and a musician, but usually not at the same time. During Art Basel, though, he allowed the two parts of his career to overlap. The Kirlian...