Yamamoto has been playing for decades with centuries of silhouettes. This show is a flutter through the delicate butterfly imagination of a very artistic man... more
When the Royal Air Force smashed up Berlin's Neues Museum in two nights of bombing, no one could have foreseen that it would take a British architect, more than 60 years later, to put it right... more
Last Saturday was spent making a fool of myself in the changing rooms of the designer shops of New Bond Street. No surprise there, except it was in the cause of art. I'd been recruited by artist Tete de Alencar to take part in her Cinderella Flash project... more
Groundbreaking designs in fashion and architecture from Issey Miyake to Thomas Heatherwick are being featured in a new exhibition at Somerset House... more
Flamboyant designer Zandra Rhodes has created the costumes and set for Verdi's Aida. But can she make it the Christmas hit the English National Opera so desperately needs?... more
The Victoria and Albert Museum is as great an inspiration to Britain's artists and designers as it was when Henry Cole founded it 150 years ago...... more
Restaurant review: Hawksmoor sounds like cocktail heaven. But it's astonishing that a place so adroit in the alchemy of mixed drinks should fall down so badly in the simple business of grilling meat, says Nick Curtis.... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows