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Our Art & Design category explores the ideas, disciplines and creators shaping the visual and built world around us. From architecture and interior design to music, visual art and contemporary creative practice, we highlight the principles, stories and innovations that enrich modern life—without promoting unnecessary consumption.
Here, you’ll find thoughtful coverage of emerging and established artists, deep dives into design movements, architectural developments, cultural trends and the creative processes behind meaningful work. With a human-led perspective, this section uncovers the people, philosophies and pivotal moments driving today’s artistic and design landscapes.
Inside the Lisbon Studio Where Memory Becomes Art
In an old carpentry workshop overlooking Lisbon, Ana Margarida Costa is using art to untangle memory, identity and the uncertainty of life.
The Interior Designer Who Believes Every Home Needs a Soundtrack
For Swedish-born, Sydney-based designer Anna-Carin McNamara, crafting a home is about rhythm, proportion, tension and resolution. It's a song of form and function.
’The Only True Protest is Beauty’: Fondazione Dries Van Noten’s Striking Debut Revealed
The Venice institution’s debut exhibition explores beauty as a catalyst for intensity, provocation and transformation.
The Artist Behind Vogue’s Most Iconic Illustrations is Finally Back in Focus
'The Women of René Bouché' marks the first time pieces have been shown since the Vogue fashion artist's final exhibition in 1957.
Paramart is Sydney’s New Late Night Vending Machine Obsession
A 24-hour milk bar run by vending machines; Paramart Sydney is doing hospitality a little differently.
‘Collecting Ourselves’: The Search for Frank Lloyd Wright’s Lost Objects
To me, great architecture is undeniable. When form truly meets function, it is enough to stop you dead…
The Underground Art Scene at the End of the World
At the bottom of the world, where the horizon collapses into a blur of ice and sky, a handful of artists are creating a movement. Welcome to Antarctica’s underground art scene.
Step Inside Thebe Magugu’s Afro-Modernist Sanctuary
The South African fashion designer has partnered with Mount Nelson, A Belmond Hotel, Cape Town to unveil a stunning new two-storey suite.
Fashion Designer Dries Van Noten is Defending Craftsmanship
One year after he announced a shock departure from the runway, designer Dries Van Noten has announced his latest venture. Step inside Fondazione Dries Van Noten, the fashion mogul's newly formed arts foundation.
You Can Now Rent the Real-Life Farmhouse from ‘Hamnet’
Cwmmau Farmhouse, the 17th-century Jacobean property that features as the childhood home of Shakespeare’s wife in 'Hamnet' is available to rent.
