Tracey emin’s my bed

Exhibition of the week Between Sleeping and Waking ...

When COUNTRY LIFE’s Henry Avray Tipping spotted a 17th-century four poster languishing in a Herefordshire attic in 1911, he set off a chain of events that saw the bed leave its ancestral home and land at The Met in New York

For one week in September 1995, Tilda Swinton collaborated with artist Cornelia Parker to conceive a performance art piece titled ‘The Maybe’. For eight hours each day, visitors to London’s Serpentine

A beautifully dressed bed is just as important as the other decor elements in a bedroom – and these ones are the fairest of them all

“The only direction Britney gave me was that she wanted to die in the video,” said fashion photographer David LaChapelle of the instructions he received for his video of her 2003 single “Everytime”. R

There are many reasons that an artist’s ambitions can be thwarted, including the decision to become a teacher. Later this month, an exhibition will shine a light on talent obscured by a career in the classroom