Jeff Koons

To truly appreciate ornamental garden architecture requires a backdrop other than the yard of an auction room to allow would-be buyers to see how piec(...)

Are artists different? Some lines from Thomas Kinsella are stuck in my mind: “I wonder whether one expects/ Flowing tie or expert sex …/ Of poets any (...)

Come the end of the month, fifty thousand people will descend on Stradbally for the fourteenth Electric Picnic. Alongside catching The Prodigy, Massiv(...)

Sara Driver’s new picture, Boom for Real, about the late teenage years of the New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, is a huge cause for celebration. L(...)

Tom of Finland had more in common with Walt Disney than the American animator would have cared to admit. Both created sharp, well-defined images that (...)

Oh, “volume 2”? Get them. I suppose it’s less pompous than “Dawn of Justice”. But those words do seem a little grandiose when attached to a Marvel sub(...)

The apartment Przem Shrem Zajac shares with his partner, Les Cullinan, in Dublin’s Smithfield is an eclectic extravaganza of beloved pieces, put toget(...)

There’s more to that record collection you’ve begun to accumulate than the sounds on the grooves. In front and around many great albums is very often (...)

BREAKFAST IN STYLE Long before kale and berries were a thing, Loews Hotel (now Loews Regency) on Park Avenue invented the Power Breakfast. City pol(...)

The street artist Maser is wearing a paint-stained plaid shirt and is contemplating three of the brightly-coloured fine art prints he has created for(...)