Giant, brightly coloured furniture surrounds you, and it’s all gone a bit awry. A large cluster of oversized lamps by Franz West look a little sick, like they’ve seen better days. A brown, resin-like substance drips down the yellow surfaces of…

Not since Olafur Eliasson’s Weather Project installation in 2003 has Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall felt so “occupied” by the masses, so animated, with people taking ownership of the vast space for their own amusement. Of course it is all…

Why do we love mirrors? From funfair antics of distortion to Versailles' lavish Hall of Mirrors, from Narcissus captivated by his reflection in the water to Robert Morris’ minimalist Mirrored Cubes, they hold a strange power. 

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A lot has of course already been written on the significance of the use of red in the 2010 Serpentine Pavilion – its reference to the red of London buses and England’s postboxes, for example. There are a myriad other things that spring to mind,…