Street Art May Be Huge, But It’s Just Getting Started
Let Us Spray The word on the street is that graffiti art, far from having run out of puff, is…
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Richard Long brings Land Art to the Whitworth
The director of the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester’s university quarter shows me an A4 piece of paper with Richard…
ByRaqib Shaw Ra-jazzles the Manchester Art Gallery with La Nuit d’Amour
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ByDirector Noah Horowitz on The Armory Show’s Centenary(ish)
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ByFleeing Hurricane Sandy New York-Style
Author: by Daisy Prince Onwards and Upwards When Hurricane Sandy hit New York, Daisy Prince joined the power-hungry downtowners who…
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Octavia Hill, Founder of the National Trust, Remembered
A Beauty-Full Mind On the centenary of the death of Octavia Hill, Clive Aslet joins the chorus of praise for…
ByArt 13: An Art Fair with a Difference
A Fair Change Art13 will be an art fair with a difference, says Josh Spero: a proper global outlook, unexpected…
ByThe Rise of Private Museums in Asia
The West has a very particular conception of museums: public institutions for the public good created — at least in…
ByThe Story Behind Parmigiani’s New Mayfair Store
The Brand That Came in From the Cold Parmigiani’s approach may have grated with some, but its latest offerings and…
BySpear’s/Amazon Bookstore
You can buy all the books reviewed in Spear’s and mentioned in it or on spearswms.com in the Spear’s/Amazon Bookstore…
ByYue Minjun Brings His Smile-Screams to the Fondation Cartier, Paris
Montparnasse in Paris is usually a dead zone, not just for its cemetery, which holds Sartre and Baudelaire, Beckett and…
ByAn HNW ABC: X, Y, Z
The final instalment of our lexicographical endeavour, a dictionary for the super-wealthy Xanadu: You all know the words: ‘In Xanadu…
ByMichael Hoppen on 20 Years of His Photography Gallery
Michael Hoppen is celebrating 20 years of his Chelsea gallery, one of the first to show serious photography in London,…
ByWinners Announced for ‘Portrait of Our Queen’, HM Painted by Kids
Inside was a van Dyck self-portrait worth £12.5 million but the 150 people queuing outside Philip Mould’s art gallery in…
ByClive Head Is Waiting For The Art World to Catch Up With Clive Head
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Review: The Fishing Fleet by Anne de Courcy
THE FISHING FLEET: Husband-hunting in the Raj Anne de Courcy Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 336pp The introduction of India into the…
ByReview: Dark Pools by Scott Patterson
DARK POOLS: The Rise of AI Trading Machines and the Looming Threat to Wall Street by Scott Patterson Random House…
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Wallies Everywhere in Ibiza Nueva
When an excess of cash meets a lack of scruples and an absence of taste… well, it’s enough to make…
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