Art & Collecting
Frieze Week: Thursday
Why the Trafigura Prize is trying to pour oil on troubled waters (ho-ho) and Alex Dellal tells me what his Embassy project has to do with nationalism (very little, apparently)
Frieze Week: Wednesday
When the fair finally opened, orange stickers appeared on works' labels like a rapidly-spreading outbreak of chicken pox. Plus, Spear's talks to Joe La Placa, who has founded a contemporary collection with (gasp!) a hedge-fund manager.
Frieze Week: Tuesday
'Bacon? Who's he? Never heard of him,' says Damien when I ask him about his influences. 'I prefer eggs and beans.'
Art & Design London
Had the lights gone out in the shocking pink pavilion, the star wattage could have kept it glowing all night.
Frieze Week: Monday
Laurence Graff told Spear's that he had always wondered what it was like to stand on the other side of the podium instead of sitting in the front rows
Art London looks up
Art London had too much drawing-room art last year. This year, Art London moved out of the drawing room and into a more daring room.
Ticking Over Nicely
Ten years ago Richard Mille initiated a French Revolution in Swiss watchmaking — one that shows no sign of winding down, says James Gurney
When Worlds Collude
Art is good business — and good for businesses. Anthony Haden-Guest meets the fixers who bring the creative and the corporate together
Interiority Complex
Penelope Bennett meets David Collins, the refreshingly unpretentious design genius who has surprised himself with his remarkable success
Bad publicity
Another cartoon from the sharpest pen in the Really Annoying Phrases series: Bad publicity.
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The Hedgehog
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