Shenzhen’s new V&A-approved culture centre to showcase city’s artistic side

The Chinese megacity has grown rapidly over the last 35 years and with its new Sea World Culture and Arts Centre opening in December it’s looking to make as big an impact in culture as it has in industry

Louvre Abu Dhabi: Jean Nouvel’s spectacular palace of culture shimmers in the desert

With its cosmic dome and starry latticework, the French architect’s water-lapped Gulf outpost shuns the petrodollar glitz of its neighbours. But there’s no whitewashing the appalling treatment of the labourers who built its light-filled halls

Take the kids to … National Motor Museum, Beaulieu

From Del Boy’s three-wheeler and Harry Potter’s Flying Ford Anglia to crazy Top Gear contraptions, this museum in the New Forest has tankfuls of va-va-voom

The V&A’s £55m new courtyard: ‘Like a Marbella beach bar airlifted to South Ken’

Amanda Levete’s dazzling new porcelain piazza brilliantly reunites the museum with the Kensington streets. But the giant new jewellery box of a gallery lurking below ground is the real star of the show

Manolo Blahnik: The Art of Shoes retrospective

Manolo Blahnik: The Art of Shoes is an intimate retrospective spanning 45 years of work by one of the most influential figures in fashion. With over 30,000 unique styles in the infamous private archive, Spanish fashion designer and founder of the eponymous high-end shoe brand Manolo Blahnik with the curator Dr. Cristina Carrillo de Albornoz … Read more

Why Bugatti automobiles are so coveted by collectors today

One of only four Type 57SC Atlantic models ever built is certainly among the highlights of the exhibition “The Art of Bugatti.” at the Petersen Automotive Museum, Los Angeles. During their next visit to Los Angeles, automobile and design connoisseurs should definitely make a detour to the Petersen Automotive Museum. Under the title of “The … Read more