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Art / 26 Nov 2018

Nick Cave’s colossal crystal cloudscape at Carriageworks imparts a vital message

Dwarfed under a five-tonne crystalline cloud dripping with glowing chandeliers and cascading beads, a sense of magical awe suspends your imagination. Twelve metres long and six metres wide, it forms the centrepiece of American artist Nick Cave’s Until, a monumental...

Art / 25 Nov 2018

Sheila Hicks’ thrilling textiles are the antidote to our modern world

Ask a dozen different visitors at artist Sheila Hicks’ current Tel Aviv exhibition what they see in her monumental installation Saffron Sentinel (2017) and you can expect to receive nearly twice as many answers in return. One might see a...

Art / 24 Nov 2018

Eamonn Doyle on family, loss and facing his grief on the Irish coast

Eamonn Doyle’s mother Kathryn died in March 2017, after a five-year-long battle with cancer. ‘But she never managed to escape the grief of the death of her son,’ the Irish photographer says. Sorting through her possessions, Doyle found piles...

Art / 18 Nov 2018

Welsh artist Cerith Wyn Evans on winning the Hepworth Prize for Sculpture

The winner of the £30,000 biennial Hepworth Prize for Sculpture 2018 has been named as Cerith Wyn Evans: Welsh conceptual artist, filmmaker and contemporary sculpture’s golden child. There’s no doubt that Wyn Evans has been basking in his element...

Art / 11 Oct 2018

Thomas Ruff reimagines 1850s India and Burma at the V&A Photography Centre

A major new body of work by German artist Thomas Ruff bridges digital manipulation with one of the earliest important achievements in analogue photography. Commissioned to celebrate the opening V&A’s brand new Photography Centre on 12 October, the series...

Lifestyle / 13 Sep 2018

Jony Ive goes behind the screen of the new Apple Watch with Tony Chambers

Tony Chambers started wearing an Apple Watch in 2015. Seduced, as many were, by its marriage of elegant form, function and fun – it was the Mickey Mouse face that gave it extra appeal. ‘It adds an element of irreverence, preventing all the...

Art / 29 Jun 2018

A nostalgic look inside Memphis Group artist Peter Shire’s wonder-filled LA studio

‘A CD player can be put on random play. What if you had a design and a group of materials on random play, and all of them were coming out different? It would look like Memphis,’ muses Los Angeles...

Art / 29 Jun 2018

A ship-shape new home for Copenhagen Contemporary

It started as an ambitious experiment, and two years on, Copenhagen Contemporary is one of Denmark’s largest and most dynamic art spaces. While its previous waterside location on Copenhagen’s Paper Island already covered a vast 3,400 sq m, its...

Lifestyle / 25 Jun 2018

Cars, watches and Negronis: A. Lange & Söhne’s CEO Wilhelm Schmid in conversation

Wallpaper* meets A. Lange & Söhne CEO Wilhelm Schmid in what can only be described as rarefied conditions. Behind us the Fellini-ish cinerama of Lake Como, glistening in the sunshine, rows of immaculate Riva Aquarama speedboats on the wooden jetty...

Art / 22 Jun 2018

Christo on his monumental floating sculpture for Serpentine Lake

An 83-year-old Christo was late to our interview in February. He was busy traipsing across Kensington Gardens, battling sideways rain, scouting potential locations for The London Mastaba, which was officially unveiled this week in Hyde Park. The giant public sculpture...

Lifestyle / 18 Jun 2018

Counter-cool fragrance master Alessandro Gualtieri on Amsterdam, leather and ‘feeling it’

Of course, the first thing that hits you is the smell. One would hardly expect anything less from the lab of a perfumer. A potent concoction of musks, florals and glue-like, plastic notes, it erupts from the opened doorway like...

Art / 6 Jun 2018

What’s next for Azerbaijan’s flourishing art scene, plus the best Baku galleries

Having only emerged from more than 50 years of communist rule in 1991, Azerbaijan has spent the last 25 years redefining itself. Gentrification has been rapid, especially in the past decade, and in the capital city of Baku, a skyline...

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