Paris in 2018: Major Events, Restaurants, Cultural & Luxury Hotel Openings for 2018

With a wide variety of activities, attractions and openings for visitors to take part in throughout Paris and Île-de-France over the coming year, the City of Lights and Paris region is a must-visit destination. Making the City of Light and the larger Paris region even easier to visit, many airlines are adding faster, more direct … Read more

How to get the most out of your visit to the Borghese Gallery

With twenty exhibition rooms and many works of art of inestimable value mostly collected by Cardinal Scipione Borghese, which was the nephew of Pope Paul V, the Borghese Gallery has so much to offer to the sightseers that we have some recommendations for you to get the most out of this visit. Be careful to … Read more

The top 10 architecture and design events of 2017

It was a year that celebrated new dawns. From plywood to postmodernism, from the return of council housing to a Cornish art gallery, our critic picks his highlights

The Maltese Cat is back in action in Pogrom, the second book in The Maltese Cat Book Series

We welcome “Pogrom”, the second book in The Maltese Cat Book Series. Read about The Maltese Cat Series Book 1 here.   The Maltese Cat is back in action, and this time the stakes are higher than they have ever been. He has been invited to Saudi Arabia by his polo-playing friend Bruce and a prince from … Read more

Rowan Moore’s best architecture of 2017

Postmodernism returned in style, Liverpool’s Welsh Streets were saved, but Grenfell Tower defined the year

• Observer critics’ reviews of the year in full

Laura Cumming’s best art of 2017

There was revolutionary fervour from Russia, dazzling critiques of the American dream, and unforgettable faces…

• Observer critics’ reviews of the year in full