From Llandudno to Stromness: 10 of the best hidden gem art galleries
A selection of the best art off the beaten track, featuring skeletal effigies, glowing landscapes and Victorian polymaths
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‘Courage, elegance, grit’: architect David Adjaye makes history by winning RIBA award
For the first time in its 173-year history, RIBA awards its gold medal to a black architect – and his best, and strangest, work may be yet to come
The museum of everything: do you have time to look at 150,000 exhibits?
In a world first, Rotterdam’s Boijmans museum has put its entire collection on display in a mammoth new warehouse. As the V&A considers a similar experiment, is this ‘open storage’ model the future?
Frank Gehry is using signature sculptural style to reinterpret Extra Old Cognac
World-renowned architect Frank Gehry unveiled a masterpiece decanter for Hennessy X.O. 150th Anniversary. Frank Gehry marries gold and glass
‘Barefoot bookseller’ sought to run island bookshop in Maldives
Luxury resort says island is virtually Covid-free and wants a live-in book lover to provide guests with bespoke help for their ‘reading journeys’
When does street art become ‘art’ art?
Whether you think graffiti is a subversive, democratic art form or a public nuisance, it harks back to our cave-painting days