The top 10 shows from Australian fashion week – in pictures

Sophisticated swimwear, relaxed tailoring and a sprinkling of Australiana – Australian fashion week reveals what you’ll be wearing next summer

Venice Biennale 2019 review – preaching to the converted

There is much to praise from Ghana, India, France, and a stunning international pavilion. Less admirable is a true horror on the Arsenale…

Super rich buying up Italy’s mansions under new tax regime

‘You get the same sort of tax savings you get in Jersey but you get to live somewhere you actually want to live’

Flushed with success: solid-gold toilet to be installed at Blenheim

Visitors will be able to spend 18-carat gold penny when artwork arrives at country house in autumn

Show time: the 2019 shortlist for museum of the year

From the V&A Dundee to the Pitt Rivers in Oxford, public figures including Kirsty Wark and Matthew Rhys champion their favourite museums