Quiet billionaire’s Victorian art collection loaned to Leighton House

Many of the works in Juan Antonio Pérez Simón’s collection were last seen in the UK in the 1890s at the Royal Academy

Queen’s old toys among items to go on display in exhibition of royal childhood

Buckingham Palace exhibition will offer small glimpse into toy boxes and wardrobes of generations of young royals

From bomb sites to Bulgari: V&A falls under the spell of Italian glamour

A new exhibition charts how postwar Italy transformed the world’s perceptions of it, using its greatest export: style

High heels and pink pitchforks adorn Chatsworth house lawns

Giant objects in the gardens of one of Britain’s grandest houses form part of an exhibition by artist Michael Craig-Martin

Will the buildings of the future be grown underwater?

In a new exhibition, Michael Pawlyn lays out his vision for architecture inspired by the natural world – including biorock buildings grown entirely underwater and whole office blocks being lit by learning from the blind sea star

Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined – review

Royal Academy, London
The Royal Academy’s ambitious look beyond the purely visual aspects of architecture is full of surprises

Gallery: see some of the installations from Sensing Spaces