• Oil painting wins best record cover of the last year

    6 January 2014

    Work by Michael Kagan, used as cover art for new album by London band White Lies, wins at Best Art Vinyl 2013 competition

  • Art & retail: future directions

    14 November 2013

    As art is being increasingly used – and to great effect – in high-street retail marketing as it takes its lead from top-end retailers, that section is always looking to up its own game and keep that extra step ahead. Wendy Marshall, interior designer at MRA Architecture and Interior Design, looks at new initiatives and projects that are works of art in their own right

  • Xu Bing creates new installation for V&A Museum

    9 October 2013

    Travelling to the Wonderland will mark the opening of a new exhibition of Chinese art

  • Art for art’s sake

    27 September 2013

    Is time running out for freethinking art schools and art students? The warnings have been given, and while some commercial sponsorship and bursaries are in place, they can have serious strings attached, says Veronica Simpson

  • Sebastian Conran's Concord sculpture

    25 September 2013

    Sculpture celebrating British engineering unveiled outside London's Royal Albert Hall