Most Londoners have a complex relationship with the tube. Connecting around 12 million people, the urban rail network is one of the city's most valuable assets. Yet at the same time, due to recurring delays, disruptions, strikes and a fairly hostile commuting culture, London Underground is a common...

Turner Prize winner Martin Creed gives Crane.tv lessons on the art of dining. In a quest to revamp a room in iconic London restaurant Sketch, Creed managed to give birth to an unusual dining experience.

In what looks like a large-scale version...

Last night The 84th Academy Awards once again brought sparkle to Los Angeles as the 2012 Oscars celebrated talent across the film industry.

The Kodak Theatre, now referred to as the "Hollywood and Highland Center" after a legal battle over sponsorship, hosted the...

A lot has happened since Dolce & Gabbana bought fashion designer Richard Nicoll's entire 2002 graduate collection whilst he was still a student at Central Saint Martins. After collaborating with Marc Jacobs at Louis Vuitton, he started his...

Gavin Turk's controversial career began when he failed his degree. His MA presentation at The Royal College of Art consisted of a white room with a blue English heritage plaque mounted on the wall that read, 'Borough of Kensington/Gavin Turk/Sculptor/Worked here 1989 -1991'. This proclamation of...

Crane.tv visits 26-year-old creative Elena Rendina at her studio in Shoreditch. She tells us about her photographer, set and costume designer status, her project with model Lily Cole and how she sees the future.

Behind the beauty of ballet's facade lies a life of rigour and repetition. A dancer's task is to convey grace and effortlessness while behind the scenes muscles are aching, toes are breaking and budgets are constantly getting cut. Every dancer nurses some sort of injury - their feet are often...

Starting his career painting on the corner of a New York City street, Brian Ermanski wanted to bring his work to the people. To get by, the destitute struggling artist would sell off clothes that he had collected over decades of vintage shopping with his dad, but never...

The art critic David Sylvester once said that, "art has no greater enemy than architecture." It's one of Sir David Chipperfield's favorite quotes. The British architect is more well-known for his consistent philosophical approach to design rather than a definitive visual aesthetic. His continued exploration of traditional architectural...

Behind a clouded glass facade on St Martins Lane lies The Front Room. This small, clean space has been the site of Crane.tv's recent project, Crane.tv Curates: One Room, Three Global Names - an exhibition that aimed to bridge the gap between the video-magazine's...

London's Design Museum recently announced plans for an £80 million move to The Commonwealth Institute in Kensington's cultural quarter. The new Design Museum will open to visitors in 2014, joining the ranks of the V&A, Science Museum, Natural History Museum and Serpentine Gallery.

PUMA Creative recently named The End of The Line as winner of the inaugural PUMA Creative Impact Award, prize that honours the documentary film that has made the most significant positive impact on society. Rupert Murray's film tells the grim story of...

"People don't know what they want until it is presented to them. It's about cultivating taste."

True visionary Terence Conran's genius comes from here: his capacity to anticipate people's whims and needs to change the way people live, shop, eat and even educate themselves.

Crane.tv visits...

Opened on time and on budget in February 2011, 17 months prior to the Opening Ceremony, Hopkins Architects' 2012 Olympics' Velodrome is the first venue to be completed at the Olympic Park. Alongside technical and aesthetic considerations, the Velodrome has been constructed...

Haunch of Venison gallery was founded in London in 2002. After the success of the original, a further branch was opened in 2008 in New York. Representing leading contemporary artists such as Turner Prize nominees Richard Long, Simon Patterson and

The run away success of the BFI London Film Festival was, without a doubt, We Need to Talk About Kevin. Poignant, highly anticipated and helmed by British legend Lynne Ramsay the film won Best Film and has since been enthralling cinema goers around the...

Considered one of the most creative spaces in Paris, Palais de Tokyo is also the only museum open until midnight in the city. Crane.tv visits the museum -- situated in the eponymous building, the 'Palais de Tokyo' was built in 1937 and is located near the...

The aim of the Frieze Art Fair is to create a unique destination with an atmosphere that is of cultural and commercial value. This year's Frieze programme -- curated by Sarah McCrory -- included seven specially commissioned projects as well as the Emdash Award....

Frieze Art Fair showcases the best and most innovative contemporary art from around the world - and this year represented over 170 galleries. From those showing only a few unknown artists to giants of the art world like Jay Jopling's White Cube, the cross...

When you hear the word 'Moscow', many things come to mind - contemporary art is unlikely to be one of them. Set to change this is Christina Steinbrecher, art director of Moscow's International Art Fair, who takes Crane.tv to the heart of Russia's art...