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Cushions, chairs and china are finally in the picture

17.10.11
Design has gone digital - any item can pack a graphic punch, says Barbara Chandler ... more

Artists line up to show films at Arad's Roundhouse curtain call

08.08.11
It is the slinkiest of curtains designed to turn one of London's famous music venues into the most intriguing of cinemas... more

Christopher Bailey and the tech stars

05.07.11
Burberry creative powerhouse Christopher Bailey tells Liz Hoggard that designers of vision are open to all creative influences - which is why he is so impressed by students from his old college... more

Fingers cross-stitched, you might just have found your new creative side

16.05.11
The 'new knitting' is simple and relaxing, and the results can be spectacular, says Barbara Chandler... more

London university staff strike over pensions

21.03.11
Thousands of staff at universities in London and across England will stage a strike in a bitter row over pensions ... more

Funky little codes

22.11.10
We’re all accustomed to hyperlinks in digital documents — highlights give us the clue that we can click through to further reading... more

Best of Brit art

15.10.10
A new generation of artists and gallerists is snapping at the heels of Hirst, Jopling and co. Hannah Nathanson meets the new YBAs... more

Chapmans' bid for immortality... a brass plaque in the RCA loo

08.10.10
Jake and Dinos Chapman are backing a fund-raising auction for the art college where they trained - in return for a brass plaque in the lavatories... more

Driving forces of the future

02.07.10
Innovative ideas were unveiled at the Royal College of Art’s vehicle design awards, giving a glimpse of the future... more

The new rude: why Brits love getting saucy

07.06.10
Think Donald McGill postcards and Carry On films — now saucy, bawdy culture is getting a 21st-century makeover, says Liz Hoggard.... more

Artistic life after death for gallstones

27.05.10
Next generation of young British artists put their work on display at the Royal College of Art’s annual graduate summer show which opens today... more

Time to enter Threadneedle Prize

08.04.10
Painters and sculptors who see themselves as heirs to Freud and Moore should enter for the Threadneedle Prize, now upon us for the third year... more

Teacher on a steep learning curve in From Floor to Sky

15.03.10
Peter Kardia was clearly an inspirational teacher to many but here, at least, he proves less effective as a curator for From Floor to Sky.... more

London film look being taken to Hollywood

04.12.09
A new wave of film designers who trained in the capital are taking their radical visions to Hollywood... more

Give teachers authority or betray our children

29.10.09
I was talking to a group of 12-year-olds about their life at school. One of them gazed at me with a puzzled demeanour and asked: "Why do teachers call thick children gifted?" The entire group looked at me knowingly... more

Saatchi makes case for young art

09.10.09
The work of 20 graduates who are hoping to emulate the success of the Young British Artists is to go on show in the New Sensations.... more

1920s Hyde Park (look for the artist ... he's now 103)

18.09.09
Painting by the oldest living alumnus of the Royal College of Art has gone on show there this week, 80 years after it was produced... more

Look but don’t touch at V&A’s ceramics rooms

16.09.09
It's enough to test the nerve of any curator: setting up 3,300 of the world’s most precious but supremely breakable works of art and craft... more

Super models reveal all in Exquisite Bodies

04.08.09
Brian Sewell greatly enjoyed the Exquisite Bodies exhibition at the Wellcome Collection, he only regrets that it is not twice the size. ... more

Ambulances of the future - more like 007 than 999

06.04.09
Ambulances of the future could have James Bond-style ejector seats to help paramedics move quickly... more

The high-rise bike lock

29.01.09
A London student has come up with a novel approach for securing bicycles in the capital - hoisting them eight feet above the street... more

Yours for £40 ... and it could be a Tracey Emin

05.11.08
YOKO Ono, Tracey Emin and photographer David Bailey have created new works to help future artists... more

Buy Hirst art for £40 ... if you're lucky

22.10.08
An exhibition that gives art lovers the chance to buy a Tracy Emin, David Bailey, Yoko Ono or Damien Hirst for just £40 returns next month.... more

A Curious Wellcome

10.09.07
Haphazard and lacking academic rigour, the medical curios of the revived Wellcome Collection display a wayward urge to amuse rather than inform, says Brian Sewell.... more

Art through the centuries

23.08.07
The 20/21 British Art Fair will be displaying art from the 20th and 21st centuries from 11 September.... more

In search of the next big thing

23.05.07
A Rothko bought in 1960 for £4,000 has just sold for £36.4 million. So can you truffle out the artists worth buying now? Simon Davis introduces this year's young talent from the colleges.... more

Art world descends on London

21.02.07
With artwork from places as diverse as Australia, Russia, Japan, Africa, China, Poland and Ireland on sale, the 20:21 International Art Fair should live up to its name.... more

Snap up an Emin or Hirst with postcard lottery

16.11.06
It's the biggest annual bargain in Britart: the opportunity to buy a work by Damien Hirst or Tracey Emin for just £35.... more

Take me out: Best weekend events

16.11.06
Resfest - the mobile festival for digital media - returns to the capital, the London Jazz Festival continues and you could buy a Damien Hirst or David Hockney original at the RCA.... more


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