Robyn Lea When fashion people pour their creativity into their homes, the results can be tactile interiors that visitors may wish they could wear. “You walk into those spaces and it just blows your mind,” Australian photographer, author and director Robyn Lea tells the BBC. Lea’s latest photo book, This Creative Life – Fashion Designers at Home, published this month, features a catwalk of 18 homes, all owned by leading fashion creatives. The book derives from Lea’s curiosity about the drive to design. “I’m fascinated with the genesis of the creative spirit, and where that comes from – and why…

Christie’s Images A new exhibition charts how Claude Monet’s revolutionary, fog-shrouded visions of the Thames would “irreversibly alter how London saw itself”. Some artists help us perceive the world more precisely. A rare few go further. They look beyond looking. Theirs is a deeper reality, more felt than seen. Claude Monet is one of those. In three visits to London between 1899 and 1901, the French Impressionist, then approaching 60 years of age, embarked upon one of the most ambitious series of penetrating paintings ever undertaken by any artist – a project that is now the focus of a groundbreaking…

Techies in the gaming industry have always been the guinea pigs of the technology world, and right now they are teeming with the buzz around blockchain technology.It is now believed to be the world’s leading software solution for digital assets.After finding its successful application in almost every field—including finance, agriculture, and geospatial areas—blockchain, the decentralized technology developed by an anonymous Satoshi Nakamoto, is now making an entry into the gaming space.In fact, some believe that the gaming industry is the first to see the next generation using blockchain technology. The journey of the gaming industry Since ancient days games have…

Alamy (Credit: Alamy) They emerged from 1960s Detroit with an explosive sound that paved the way for punk. As a new LP is released, those who knew them explain how they changed the shape of music forever. Detroit has a staggeringly rich history of music. From soul to techno via blues and garage rock, the US city has been a hub of innovation for the best part of the last century. While the sound of 1960s Detroit may have been dominated and epitomised by Motown, the era-defining soul label and production team, another band emerged in that decade who would…

Alamy Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, the 1984 blockbuster The Terminator has become synonymous with the dangers of superintelligent machines. But it “helps and hinders” our understanding of AI. In one episode of the HBO sitcom Silicon Valley, Thomas Middleditch (Richard Hendricks) is explaining his machine-learning platform Pied Piper to a focus group when one participant inevitably compares it to James Cameron’s 1984 film The Terminator. “No, no, no,” insists the exasperated Middleditch. “I can assure you that there is no Skynet type of situation here. No, Pied Piper will in no way become sentient and try to take over the world.”…

Penguin Random House (Credit: Penguin Random House) Winston Churchill’s aristocratic daughter-in-law and confidante Pamela Harriman is considered “the greatest courtesan of her era”. Decades after her death, she still divides opinion – was she a smart power player, or “shameless” and “repellent”? You could call her by her six names: Pamela Beryl Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman – a British aristocrat who ended up a Washington power player and the US ambassador to France, having touched many famous lives in 20th-Century politics and culture. When she was just 20, her father-in-law Winston Churchill engaged her as “his most willing and committed…