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McQueen of the jungle prints and towering heels

07.10.09

God bless Alexander McQueen: he can always be relied upon to up the ante - with what must be the highest heels ever seen on a catwalk... more

Pop Life sells its soul for the big bucks

01.10.09

Once they were going to call it Sold Out; they could have called it Cashing In; but they settled in the end for the upbeat but neutral title Pop Life. ... more

Tate to display nude Brooke Shields picture

29.09.09

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The passing of this relic leaves Bond Street poorer

23.07.09

Former employee Oscar Humphries talks about his time at Partridge Fine Art, the Bond Street gallery which recently went into administration... more

Russia's new revolution

15.07.09

Modern, blingy, pricey Moscow is a far cry from the communist years. But taste and elegance are fast returning to the Russian capital, says Rowan Moore... more

Hot tickets: London's going out guide

03.07.09

The Standard's writers pick out the best shows, films and exhibitions taking place in the capital... more

Jeff Koons: Popeye brought to life

02.07.09

Just when you thought he'd run out of ideas, Jeff Koons, one of the biggest celebrity artists of our age, comes up with a whole new fantasy... more

Koons celebrates 80 years of Popeye at serpentine

30.06.09

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The inventive art world of Jeff Koons

04.06.09

As the Serpentine Gallery launches a new Jeff Koons exhibition next month, poet Craig Raine assesses this artist's enduring attraction.... more

I'll restore the balance of our lunatic fringe

20.05.09

Opinion polls: Love Them or Hate Them or Don't Know or Other, there are an enormous number of them around at the moment... more

Cracks in art market as Koons egg sells for less than �4m target

13.05.09

An Easter egg sculpture by Jeff Koons failed to make its low estimate of �4 million when it sold for �3.6 million at Sotheby�s in New York � demonstrating how prices for contemporary art are falling in the economic slump... more

Hedgies get snippy at Obama

07.05.09

Barack Obama�s affair with hedge-fund managers, sparked in happier economic times, is over. A year ago, it was hard to move in Manhattan without hearing a money manager coo over Obama�s brilliance, pragmatism and global perspective. Now these erstwhile fans talk about him as if he were a Central Park mugger ... more

The best front row ever

04.03.09

Just as we were beginning to despair about the lack of A-listers at Milan Fashion Week... bang, Dolce & Gabbana gave us the best line-up in years... more

Sotheby�s �17m sale heralds the return of �real collectors�

06.02.09

Lovers of both contemporary art and Damien Hirst went to Sotheby�s last night for the first sale since a nuclear explosion hit this market in New York last November and wiped 20 per cent off prices... more

leckey is going places with his approachable and unpretentious art

02.12.08

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Stars of stage sculpt artistic drama

13.10.08

Stars of the visual arts and theatre have united for the British premiere of a short play at the Old Vic in which sculptures were brought to life ... more

Race for Turner Prize

03.10.08

Most of the time it's so obvious who's going to win the Turner Prize. But this time it's going to be a much closer-run race.... more

Locke is new king of pop art

05.09.08

In his marvellous new installation � the best exhibition in living memory at Iniva � Hew Locke moves into subtler and more fantastic territory.... more

Spacey brings art to life in Brillo idea for Old Vic stage

30.07.08

Kevin Spacey told how he would unite the worlds of art and theatre for an Old Vic production in which famous sculptures will come to life... more

Balloon flower opens in SW1

23.05.08

A giant sculpture by American artist Jeff Koons is to go on display in London before being sold for an estimated £12million... more

Balloon flower opens in SW1

23.05.08

A giant sculpture by American artist Jeff Koons is to go on display in London before being sold for an estimated �12 million.... more

Chapters and verse

16.04.08

There isn�t an overriding theme but the curators at the Blood on Paper exhibition have selected works which demonstrate great craftsmanship, so very V&A.... more

�100m art gift is the greatest since the Tate was founded

27.02.08

London dealer Anthony d'Offay has sold art worth more than £125 million to the nation for the £26.5 million it originally cost him... more

Bono's art auction raises �21m for Aids fight, making it one of the BIGGEST ever charity events

16.02.08

Art collectors splashed out £21.6million at a Valentine's Day auction to benefit the fight against Aids in Africa, making it one of the biggest ever charity events ... more

Art brings home the Bacon in �38m sale

15.11.07

The American love affair with 20th-century British art saw �38 million spent on two paintings by Francis Bacon at Sotheby's in New York.... more

Sexy art that fails to titillate

25.10.07

The Seduced exhibition at the Barbican may sound like a right goer, but prepare to be disappointed, says Nick Curtis.... more

Pornography for the prude

12.10.07

It is daft to restrict the Barbican's new exhibition, Seduced, to over-18s, says Brian Sewell.... more

Art to interact with

29.08.07

First it was Jeff Koons filling the Gagosian Gallery with toys and now Carsten Holler provides the cute factor with a pink baby hippo.... more

Step inside the weirdness of Koons's world

08.06.07

The weirdness of Jeff Koons's world is inescapable but row upon row of plastic monkey faces can have a disconcerting effect... more

Critic's choice: Top 5 exhibitions

30.11.06

Yinka Shonibare takes ICA visitors back to the future, the British Museum features photographs from around the globe and Damien Hirst's Collection is on show at the Serpentine.... more