Sitting pretty at the world’s largest furniture and interior design fair
Looking to spruce up your home? Italy’s Salone del Mobile and Fuorisalone exhibitions are chock-full of inspiring designs.
Net-zero Picasso: Museums rethink art shows to cut climate impact
While there is little museums can do to reduce the carbon footprint made by the air travel of tourists, they can cut back on the flights a Warhol or Picasso makes.
Artists Masamichi and Kazuto Ichimaru are a father-and-son duo who run one of the strangest museums in Kanagawa Prefecture.
France races to save undersea Stone Age cave art masterpieces
Climate change and pollution are threatening to wash away the art prehistoric men and women created over 15 millennia.
A fabricated future: Awards highlight pioneers of material design
Fantastic, futuristic materials may one day become the building blocks of a sustainable present.
Andy Warhol 'Marilyn' sells for $195 million, most ever for U.S. artist
The painting, "Shot Sage Blue Marilyn," was created by Warhol in 1964. It, along with the 35 other lots in the sale, was consigned by the Thomas and Doris Ammann Foundation in Zurich.
Online army deploys to save Ukraine's art and heritage
Historians, librarians and IT specialists from around the world have joined forces since the invasion began to form an online army to back up everything from websites to libraries.
A photographer couple in Kyoto discusses why they prefer analog film and how they're helping their son discover his creativity.
As sanctions hit more visible Russian assets, tax-haven free ports prepare for scrutiny
A series of scandals involving stolen art, and even looted antiquities from the war in Syria, that turned up in Geneva’s free port has dented these warehouses’ reputations.
A photographer to the stars takes up in Tokyo
There are billions of unique individuals in the world. Matthew Jordan Smith says if you want to stand out as a photographer, you need to fine-tune your vision.
Japan's 'invisible' disabled artisans fight for spotlight
Despite being the only country to have held the Paralympics twice, and the government's public commitment to integrate people with disabilities, workplaces are often not accessible to them.
The new masters: How auction houses are chasing crypto millions
The NFT and cryptocurrency boom is dragging auction houses into a new world where sales are made via social media and buyers don't wear suits.
