TOP OF THE WORLD: Hotel guests enjoying the sun at the infinity swimming pool at Sands Skypark. ARTS may not seem all too real when it comes to Marina Bay Sands (MBS) in Singapore but they not only portray their subjects well, the very sense of their exi

The British plug is a permanent fixture in millions of power sockets around the country – unchanged since it was designed after the Second World War, it’s a cumbersome chunk of plastic that is now far fatter than the laptops, phones and even televisions

The new space is an extension to Gormley’s existing studio in Kings Cross. Galvanised steel is used throughout for its durability as well as aesthetic purposes. The mono-pitched frame includes four bays, which are each accessed by mechanically operated r

When we put satellites around the planet Darwinian nature ended. The earth became an artform subject to the same programming as media networks and their environments. The entire evolutionary process shifted...from biology to technology. Evolution became

Artist couples have given the world some of its most extraordinary and passionate love stories. The turbulent affairs of Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel, Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, and Picasso and Dora Maar have all fascinated generations of admirer

Please activate cookies in order to turn autoplay off From a garage-based studio for Antony Gormley to an island sauna, the Architects' Journal Small Projects awards celebrates architecture built with a budget of £250,000 or less. The winner of the prize

Painfully slowly, really excruciatingly so, the external lift climbs a sheer concrete cliff face. Even my companion, an experienced global traveller accustomed to brain-warping delays, begins to look twitchy. The speed restriction is because the concrete

Accused by a U.S. telecoms tycoon of abducting her own baby, TV presenter Melissa Porter had hoped her horrific tug-of-love battle over her 12-month-old baby would be over by now. But just weeks after former White House aide Peter Rinfret lost his claim

The artist Antony Gormley put forward a passionate defence of squattingat the launch of an exhibition in aid of the homeless on Tuesday morning. Gormley, famous for his humanoid sculptures, notably the Angel of the North in Gateshead, said: "I'm very aga

I met Antony when we were studying at the Slade. It was 1979 and he had just bought an old ruin of a four-storey house in Peckham for £25,000. After college, we started renovating the house, biking there each day from our squat in King's Cross. A couple

If dance can be defined as living sculpture, the three-dimensional static art of the one and the choreographic architecture of the other are natural bedfellows. Antony Gormley’s collaborations with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Hofesh Shechter are the most re

By prior agreement, when the secret signal was delivered, the Acolytes of Gormley were instructed to muster in their local playing fields for a mass participation event. Sponsored by the National Lottery’s Department for Funding Obscure Art Things, the A

Billy Klüver and Robert Rauschenberg working on “Oracle (1962-65)” in Rauschenberg's studio, late 1964-early 1965. We are delighted to be able to support projects that are pushing the boundaries of artistic practice and helping artists and cultural organ

THE choreographer Akram Khan isn’t given much to sitting still. “This is torture,” he moaned, perched on a couch in his South London house, one leg heavily bandaged around the ankle and awkwardly propped to his side on a cushion. The timing could hardly

The artist Antony Gormley put forward a passionate defence of squatting at the launch of an exhibition in aid of the homeless on Tuesday morning. "Squatting is a very good way of preserving properties while at the same time putting them to good use. It's

SOMETIMES the lure of the exotic means we might happily jet off across the time zones, but never think about simply hopping in the car/bus/train and seeing a bit of the wonderful country we already live in. Have you ever been to the Norfolk Broads, or th

CULTURE SHOCK: Postmodernism means picking over the corpse of culture, using irony as the main tool. But in a time of economic crisis, art about art can feel irrelevant and disengaged, writes FINTAN O'TOOLE RECENTLY I WAS on a radio programme with the sc

The event, known as one of the biggest art exhibitions in South Asia, hosts 91 artists from more than 20 countries. “The economy of the last three years has been extremely challenging but in the five to ten year horizon the future of this art fair and th

25 January 2012 Last updated at 01:36 ET The museum has also asked Ms Hollister to hold some textile workshops A student from Greater Manchester is to have her unusual sculptures displayed at the Museum of Science and Industry. Abbie-Lee Hollister, 17, a