Sweaty nightclubs, unfamiliar bedrooms and strangers' sofas, this is downtown New York in a time long gone but still culturally resonant. Captured 40 years ago by photographer Nan Goldin in her photobook The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, the images will now be presented together by Gagosian at the Davies Street gallery in London, marking the first time the entire body of work is shown in the UK.The genre-defining release celebrates its fourtieth anniversary with the showcase, shot between 1973 an...

Surrealism is so much more than just an art movement. It's on runways, album covers, embedded in architecture, interior design and even hiding in the everyday. Salvador Dalí's melting clocks and René Magritte's faceless apple man ("The Son of Man") have fully crossed over from museum walls to pop culture, reappearing as clothing graphics, novelty accessories and, in Dalí's case, into real clocks that look straight out of a dream sequence.But a century ago, it was just a niche group of artists...

Following art weeks in London, Paris, Hong Kong and other major cities with a cultural pulse, the global art circuit reaches its glittering finale in Miami, arguably the splashiest stop of them all. From December 5 to 7, the city hosted its annual marathon of luxury-soaked events, boundary-pushing installations and an ocean of VVIPs. The champagne was flowing, the celebs were glowing and the interns were schmoozing.This year, preparations collided with Thanksgiving, adding a fresh layer of chaos...

Different continents, different cultural contexts, born one year apart, this is Vivienne Westwood and Rei Kawakubo. For the first time, the NGV museum in Melbourne is bringing together the two fashion iconoclasts in one exhibition.The British designer and the Japanese designer (of Comme Des Garçons) were radical rule breakers, subverting the status quo of fashion, and today their acclaimed collections are celebrated worldwide for questioning gender and beauty norms, taste and the very function ...