Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery, the Grade-I listed country home of visionary British architect Sir John Soane (1753-1837), will re-open to the public on 16 March 2019 following a threeyear, £12-million conservation and restoration project. The Regency Manor, built between 1800 and 1804 in then-rural Ealing, will be returned to Soane’s original design – it is…
Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has extracted 30 blocks of glacial ice from the waters surrounding Greenland and placed them in public spaces across London, where they will be left to melt. Called Ice Watch, the temporary installation is meant to serve as a visual reminder of the impact of climate change on the environment. The hunks of ice are scattered across…
Was Banksy at the evening sale at Sotheby’s on Friday night? That was the question on everyone’s lips when one of the Bristolian street artist’s paintings mysteriously self-destructed as the contemporary auction drew to a close. Girl with a Balloon (2006) was the final lot of the night, and just as the canvas hammered at…
Last week, Elon Musk hinted on Twitter that he had found his first customer for a trip to the Moon aboard the Big Falcon Rocket, a SpaceX vessel that’s expected to cost somewhere between $2 billion and $10 billion and will be taller than the Statue of Liberty. In a press conference at SpaceX headquarters on Monday, that customer…
What do you get when you combine the thrill of an escape room game with famous stories from the Rijksmuseum? The answer: A mysterious mission that criss-crosses the museum. This summer, the Rijksmuseum is launching its very own escape game in which players have to recover a secret formula that’s been stolen from a centuries-old…
On Saturday, at the end of a concert in London, Beyoncé and Jay-Z surprised the crowd with a new album and a new music video for its lead single, which finds the couple behaving regally around the Louvre. The video for “Apeshit,” directed by Ricky Saiz, marks the Carters’ return to the Parisian museum, where they famously posed in front…
In September 1878, Claude Monet took up residence at Vétheuil, a village northwest of Paris. Although this period was marked by personal loss and financial hardship, it was also one of intense productivity. Over the course of the three years he spent there, Monet executed nearly three hundred paintings, and his art shifted away from…
On 11 August, chef Victoria Elíasdóttir and her brother, artist Ólafur Elíasson, will open a culinary space in Reykjavík, hosted by the Marshall Restaurant + Bar. Running for almost three months, the temporary restaurant will serve lunch and dinner, inspired by the atmosphere of the Studio Olafur Eliasson (SOE) Kitchen in Berlin. The project will bring the SOE Kitchen…
