Latest articles by Nick Compton
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Colour king Josef Albers' adventures in monochrome go on show in London
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Cave man: inspecting Atelier Van Lieshout’s transcendental work
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Mezzanine DNA Matt Black spray paint by Massive Attack wins Wallpaper* Design Award
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The dark side of photography: Broomberg & Chanarin uncover uncomfortable truths
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Limited-edition Hermès Editeur scarves by Hiroshi Sugimoto
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Drawing parallels: Martin Parr pays tribute to Tony Ray-Jones
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Roz Barr explores post-pandemic office architecture at London’s Design District
A new workspace, Bureau, is about to launch at the Design District in London. We talk to its creator Roz Barr about how it responds to pandemic-induced changes in the ways we work and what office architecture means for this new creative hub at the Greenwich Peninsula
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'My Red Homeland': Anish Kapoor presents his first Russian solo show
S-Curve, 2006, a curving concave then convex mirror; and My Red Homeland, 2003, a melted red wax wall. But they are handsomely mounted in the centre’s large gallery spaces and, here, less is definitely more. Kapoor’s work demands a lot of empty space and they get it.
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Cheers to that: Open House 2021 celebrates London pubs
Open House 2021 is accompanied by an extensive survey of the social and architectural history of London pubs in the shape of a book, Public House
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An intoxicating Whitney Biennial bets big on abstraction, identity and super-sharp video
In the planning stage since 2019, when the world was a very different place, the 80th Whitney Biennial will run until 6 September 2022
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’Martino Gamper: Design is a State of Mind’ at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery in London
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Found Muji
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Hub culture: how Second Home is engineering the new creative hothouse
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Running brand On fixes the ‘broken experience' of shoe shopping
In a year that pressed pause on the world, high-tech running brand On only gained momentum
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Vitra Design Museum unmasks the new face of African design
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Martin Parr’s witty portrayal of British domestic life in the 1990s opens at Beetles & Huxley
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There’s brew love in a new lager saga: Daniel Noah Sheikh reinvents beer
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Mercedes EQE tiptoes around a revolution to inch EV design forwards
We road test the new Mercedes-Benz EQE, the car that may ease the Mercedes E-Class customer into the electric age – balancing the formal experimentation that EVs allow with the familiar
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Layer unveils giant installation for Cosentino at Milan’s Central Station
Opening during Salone del Mobile, Raytrace is inspired by the interplay of light and water
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teamLab: how a Tokyo art collective pioneered an immersive art boom
With an operatic intervention and a show at Pace Geneva, teamLab, the now-700-strong Tokyo-based collective that blazed a trail for experiential, tech-fuelled art, continues to value ‘physical interaction in physical space’
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La Hütte Royal: artist Thorsten Brinkmann's radical transformation of an ordinary Pittsburgh house
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Polish artist Wojciech Fangor’s mesmerising paintings inaugurate a new London gallery
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The Handbuilt Bicycle, Museum of Arts and Design
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The grand-père of photojournalism: Henri Cartier-Bresson
