Kazakhstan calling: a jaw-dropping trip to Astana

As the country gears up for its Expo 2017, the astonishing architecture in its capital blows Sankha Guha’s mind

Jean-Michel Basquiat breaks US art record with £85m sale

Painting by Basquiat, who died aged 27, is most expensive at auction of any US artist, also breaking record for a black artist

Frank Lloyd Wright: fantasist or genius?

As an exhibition in New York marks 150 years since the birth of Frank Lloyd Wright, is it time for a reappraisal of this flawed hero of modernist architecture?

V&A makes case for the rebellious beauty of Balenciaga

It is milder than McQueen, but there are monsters, ghosts and glamour in the museum’s account of a fashion giant

Anti-smog bikes: could pedal power clean China’s polluted air?

The bikes designed by Dutch artist Daan Roosegarde would suck in polluted air, using positive ionisation to purify it, before releasing it back into the atmosphere