Even the most feted of fashion designers are reluctant to describe their work as "art". Still, in 2006, narrating an item dedicated to Hussein Chalayan on BBC2's The Culture Show, the art critic, Andrew Graham-Dixon, described Chalayan's work as "as close to contemporary art as you can get".

From the world's biggest coffee-table book to the rarefied delights of vintage S&M artwork, Taschen has broken every convention of publishing. Thirty years after he started out selling comics, founder Benedikt Taschen picks his proudest moments...

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A rare exhibit of 74 bronze sculptures by French painter Edgar Degas opened Thursday at Sofia's National Art Gallery, the first ever in Bulgaria of the Impressionist artist's work.

A new exhibition opening this month seeks to capture the vastness and ever-changing character of the sea through studies of British seascapes.

A series of captivating pictures of mushrooms and other fungi went on show for the first time today in Brighton.