Sarah Lucas, Mat Collishaw, and others remember the stylish eatery, which is being recreated at Leeds Art Gallery.
Postwar & Contemporary Art: Bringing Pharmacy Back to Life: An Oral History of Damien Hirst's Notorious London Art Restaurant
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Arts Policy: National Endowment for the Humanities Doles Out $40 Million in Grants, With a New Focus on Funding Digital Start-Ups
Funded projects include a New York Public Library app that will provide users with multimedia editions of musical theater.
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Design & Architecture: Spinning Garbage Into Gold: Artist Justin Gignac on Using the Power of Design to Sell New Yorkers Their Own Trash
From the detritus of gay wedding celebrations to used Starbucks straws, Gignac has been cannily repackaging refuse as chic objets d'art.
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Style: The Many Faces of Cindy Sherman: The Self-Portrait Artist Launches Makeup Line With MAC Cosmetics
The blue chip photographer channels three distinct characters for a makeup campaign debuting in September.
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Art Market: Sotheby's Claims Record First Half, Citing Growth of the Asian Market
In a shareholder conference call, CEO William Ruprecht said that the global markets had come together into a stable "three legs to the stool."
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Design & Architecture: Timber! Stockholm's visiondivision Designs an Arboreal Snack Stand for the Indianapolis Museum of Art
A new concession stand made from an entire 100-foot yellow poplar is slated to open next year at 100 Acres, the IMA's sculpture park.
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The Daily Checklist: The Search for England's Floating Art Island, Richard Neutra's Kronish House Gets Stay of Execution, and More Must-Read Art News
Plus, Delta strikes a deal to become the Whitney Museum's "official airline."
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Photography: The Bling Surrealist: How Photographer Luis Gispert Soups Up Car Culture With Luxury Knockoffs
The New Jersey-born artist traveled the country searching for a deeply private car subculture that would become the subject of his latest show at Mary Boone gallery.
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Museums: Miami Art Museum Hires Latin American Art Expert Tobias Ostrander as Chief Curator
Ostrander's position, created to address the growing institution's needs, involves overseeing MAM's public, education, and exhibition programs.
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Art & Crime: Houston Socialite Behind "Charlie Wilson's War" Will Sell Painting Reclaimed From Sotheby's to Rebuild Afghanistan
Joanne King Herring had to fight to get back the stolen "Portrait of a Man" by Henry Raeburn, which she will now sell to benefit her Marshall Plan Charities.
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Galleries: The Six Best Art Exhibitions in China This Summer
From Beijing to Shenzhen, exciting shows are shaking up the slow summer months, showcasing artists we'll likely be seeing more of in years to come.
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Design & Architecture: Barbie Gets an Edgy, Eco-Friendly New Abode Courtesy of Two Harvard-Trained Architects
Ting Li and Maja Paklar designed a four-story home complete with low flow toilets, locally sourced furnishings, and bamboo floors for Mattel's iconic doll.
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Design & Architecture: Popping Up the Question: How Architecture Firms ICRAVE and Z-A Studio Helped Usher Gay Marriage Into New York's Central Park
A total of 24 New York couples were married last weekend in a pair of Pop Up Chapels that the firms designed specially for the occasion.
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Art Market: What Would Importing Droit de Suite to the U.S. Mean for the Art Market?
Advocates say the European practice of giving artists a cut of resale proceeds would make for a fairer art economy, but the reality is less than clear.
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Art Market: To Kick Off the Year of Damien Hirst, Gagosian Will Blanket the World With the Artist's Spot Paintings
Is it a global case of chicken pox? No, it's a solo show of Hirst's paintings across the gallery's 11 international outposts.
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Wine: Wine Style: Vintner Georges DuBoeuf Commissions Mr. Kaves to Be Its First Beaujolais Nouveau Street Artist
The pair are holding a contest to be featured alongside the artist in an exhibition celebrating 2011's batch of Beaujolais Nouveau.
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The Daily Checklist: Michele Bachmann's Problem With the Renaissance, Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez's Love Immortalized in Sculpture, and More Must-Read Art News
Plus, Michael Kimmelman suspects we're a bit unsophisticated about sculpture these days.
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Performing Arts: James Franco Holds a Low-Key Art Opening in Terence Koh's ASS
The premiere of the celebrity artist's new show "High/Low, Rob Lowe" at Koh's Asia Song Society was a subdued, thoughtful affair.
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Art and Politics: Reading Between the Lines of Ai Weiwei's First Post-Release Interview With Chinese State Media
Speaking to the Global Times, the Chinese artist remained impressively and even defiantly outspoken, despite the terms of his release.
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Design & Architecture: Artist Daniel Arsham to Create the Merce Cunningham Dance Company's Final Set With His iPhone
Photos from his camera phone are the basis for the last thing he designs for his one-time close friend.
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