Art Basel: a dose of reality with exhibits on snooping and migration
Samson Young and Chiharu Shiota among artists whose works bring global political turmoil to art market’s top event
Art and design
The sculpture controlled by bees: Wolfgang Buttress’s Hive
Its 170,000 pieces of aluminium are a hive-like structure of latticework, controlled by the vibrations of honeybees in a hive at Kew that is connected to the sculpture
Revealed: the unseen flip-sides of the world’s most famous paintings
From the Mona Lisa to Van Gogh’s Starry Night, Brazilian artist Vik Muniz has exposed – literally – the nuts and bolts of centuries-old masterpieces
Empires and splendour: David Roche’s private collection of antiques opens to public
From Fabergé to a pistol owned by Napoleon, the $70m collection of European antiques in David Roche’s residence is a sight to behold
Museum of London design shortlist: from luxury boutique to history chic
Smithfield market will be the museum’s new home, but which architectural vision should shape its future: the eye-catching one, the ghostly one, the corporate one … or the one that rings alarm bells?
The Louvre’s closure proves art cannot survive climate change
The flooding in Paris is a stark warning of the danger posed by climate change to everything human civilisation has achieved – no matter how priceless