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Whimsy meets luxury: Louis Vuitton x Takashi Murakami Artycapucines VII bags debut

Held at the School of The Arts Drama Theatre on Oct 17 and 18, the sold-out show drew more than 600 people over two nights.
Lifestyle

BT Budding Artists Fund celebrates 20th anniversary with ‘Here I Am’

A fresh banana taped to a wall, a provocative work of conceptual art by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, was bought for US$6.2 million by a cryptocurrency entrepreneur at a New York auction.
Lifestyle

Banana taped to a wall sells for US$6.2 million in New York

Aurélie Vassy, Sotheby’s head of handbag and fashion sales in Europe, holds a Hermès mini Kelly Bags in front of a Claude Monet painting, at the auction house’s new Paris headquarters on Oct 12, 2024.
Lifestyle

Paris is rising as an art market hub, with some way left to go

Venezuelan artist Lucia Pizzani poses beside a ceramic artwork displayed as part of her exhibition "Smoke" during the Frieze Art Fair at Regent's Park in London on October 9, 2024. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION - TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION
Lifestyle

London's Frieze art fair goes potty for ceramics

epa11611401 Members of public look at an installation titled 'Mil Veces un Instante (A Thousand Times in an Instant)' by Mexican artist Teresa Margolles, which is unveiled as the latest artwork on Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth in London, Britain, 18 September 2024. The artwork is made up of plaster casts of the faces of hundreds of trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming people across Mexico City, Juarez, and London. EPA-EFE/TOLGA AKMEN
Lifestyle

New London sculpture pays tribute to trans community

Austrian artist Erwin Wurm poses next to works during the preview of his 70th-birthday retrospective at the Albertina Modern museum in Vienna.
Lifestyle

The absurd helps us ‘see more’, says Austrian artist Wurm

Artwork stored in artist Iria Leino’s loft on Greene Street in New York, on Aug 21, 2024. Embedded with more than a thousand rocks and pebbles, the 1981 work “The King’s Crown,” far left, weighs almost 200 pounds. (Katherine Marks/The New York Times)
Lifestyle

A Finnish artist and the apartment and paintings she left behind

Visitors viewing “Listening All Night to the Rain” in the British Pavilion during preview week of the Venice Biennale in April.
Lifestyle
LIFE & CULTURE

Can art save the world? Or is that too much to ask?

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