They are happy to lay down the law on what makes a good stadium, tower block or concert hall, but do architects practise what they preach when it comes to their own homes? We go through the keyhole to meet three nominees for the hotly contested RIBA Stirling prize
From art nouveau and Vogue to Coca-Cola and punk, a wonderful new boxed collection reproduces 500 graphic design images that helped shape our visual culture. Here are some of our favourite magazine covers
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Jonathan Jones begins the story of art history in pictures – from prehistoric times to the present – with proof that even before the appearance of homo sapiens, Britain’s earliest settlers had a sense of the beautiful
For the London 2012 festival, the full BMW art car collection is going on display. But this old banger of an idea needs younger, less well-known artists to drive it into the 21st century argues Jonathan Jones
Don’t call it a spaceship! Justine McGuirk takes explores an emblem of 1960s architectural utopianism.
Circular rooms are strange in themselves, accustomed as we are to corners, but this plastic womb was more unheimlich than homely.
Move the Mountain is an exhibition of original Chinese propaganda posters from 1969-1979. Flick through our gallery.
The communist posters depict scenes ranging from young Chinese people holding up copies of Mao’s Little Red Book to soldiers fighting cartoonish capitalist monsters. This is the first time these works have been exhibited in the UK. At Richard Goodall Gallery in Manchester from 9 March to 7 April 2012.
Good typography is invisible/ Bad typography is everywhere by Craig Ward
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The concept designer of the new bus is Thomas Heatherwick, working closely with Wrightbus, its manufacturer. When he appeared on the scene in the late 1990s he was instantly cast as a British engineering genius, the creator of weird, wonderful structures such as the UK pavilion for the Shanghai World Expo in 2010.
Andy Warhol’s legacy lives on in the factory of fame
25 years after his death, Warhol still dominates the art market and popular culture. The artist described by Truman Capote, quoting Wilde, as “a sphinx without a secret” has never gone away.
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