Is it time to give up leather?

Cows have long been farmed to fuel the fast food market. Now, by turning leather into a seasonal fashion, they are becoming part of fast fashion. Soon we will have to kill 430m every year. Lucy Siegle gets to grips with life without leather (well almost)

Enzo Ferrari’s birthday and Ferrari’s role on the Silver Screen celebrated with new super exhibition

Red Carpet: Ferrari’s homage to Hollywood and beyond. “Red Carpet”, a new exhibition unveiled at the Museo Enzo Ferrari in Modena, celebrates Enzo Ferrari’s birthday with a tribute to Ferrari’s role in Hollywood and beyond. The founder of the Scuderia Ferrari Grand Prix motor racing team, and subsequently of the Ferrari automobile marque was born … Read more

The most unmissable culture of 2016

Tarantino goes bounty-hunting, Botticelli takes you to hell, Bowie goes dark, and Jericho fills that Downton-shaped hole … in our bumper guide to the best 150 arts events to look forward to this year

Saatchi Gallery to show its first all-female art exhibition

Champagne Life, which will showcase work of 14 artists, attempts to redress gender disparity in contemporary art

On tiny Fair Isle, a cottage industry enjoys the sweet smell of success

The Shetland island’s knitwear designers are quietly pleased at the attention they won when Chanel was obliged to say sorry for copying their designs

Bentley sprint against Saudi Arabia’s only desert passenger train

Bentley’s Desert Train Race. Continental GT V8 S Convertible races train from Riyadh to Damman. Saudi Arabia’s only desert passenger train takes a 480 km route from Riyadh – deep in the heart of the Arabian Peninsula – to Damman on the Arabian Gulf. Eighty-five years after three-time Le Mans winner Captain Woolf Barnato famously … Read more