10 of the best museum shops around the world

It’s not always a case of avoiding the ‘exit through the gift store’ bit. These striking and creatively stocked museum shops are worth a visit in their own right
What are your favourite museum shops? Let us know where and why in the comments below

The best American art shows of 2015

A thrilling show about the alignment between jazz, art and politics rocked Chicago, while the Met staged a groundbreaking show of Kongo civilization and Charles Ray’s sculpture proved too hot for the Whitney to handle

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Project Alba – the award winning 50m semi-displacement class by Heesen Yachts

Dutch shipyard Heesen Yachts has ten yachts under construction with deliveries running into 2018. One of the project sold in 2015 is Project Alba “Combining speed and space, sportiness and elegance, Project Alba is the true expression of Heesen’s DNA with her highly efficient, aluminium, hard-chine hull, seamlessly engineered by the in-house experts and impeccably crafted … Read more

A feminist Pirelli calendar and the rise of Donald Dump – the week in art

Pirelli has a bit of a gear change with Annie Leibovitz’s portraits. Plus a high-speed tour of Art Basel Miami Beach, and how Donald Trump the pottymouth sparked an art movement – all in your weekly art dispatch

Art Basel Miami Beach review – art and commerce collide by the sea

It’s the western hemisphere’s biggest and most ostentatious art fair, and if you can get past the bling there are gems to be seen, many hailing from Latin America

The Aster Yosegi Wood Limited Edition by Vertu

A new addition to the Vertu Aster collection. The marriage of a revered and ancient Japanese craft with a quintessentially English smartphone – Vertu Aster. Luxury smartphone creator Vertu continues to pioneer the use of innovative and high-performance materials with a new limited edition called Aster Yosegi Wood. The new luxury phone fused traditional Japanese … Read more