Design

Art is fanciful? The opposite is true as artists and designers address the most urgent global challenges

Rhode Island School of Design is participating in the Sustainable Markets Initiative’s Terra Carta Design Lab, leveraging art and design to address social issues

In pictures: Design Miami makes a stand

Furniture clad in shingles, a tiger with a ceramic coat and a chair made of chains are some of the highlights of Design Miami 2023

Origami cranes and muddy boots: Fifa Museum unveils the memorabilia it acquired from the Women’s World Cup

Japanese markers of gratitude, along with Indigenous symbols of welcome from Australia and New Zealand, will be shown alongside mud-stained footwear, kit and balls in a new exhibition

Art or design? Art Week Tokyo exhibition relooks at the role of craft in post-war Japanese art

Curator Kenjiro Hosaka on five highlights from his AWT Focus exhibition, which brings together over 100 works from participating galleries

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PAD London fair celebrates 15th edition as contemporary design market matures

The art and design fair opens in London's Mayfair a day before Frieze London

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Seoul gets another art fair as Art Busan opens design-led outpost

The Korean capital’s status as an art world hub will be bolstered by Define Seoul

Dorothy Liebes survey weaves the story of her little-known but colourful career

Cooper Hewitt in New York celebrates the creator of vibrant mid-century Modern textiles

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Taylor Swift’s cat painting pops up in New York museum show

Museum of Arts and Design exhibition is a feast for Swifties (namely devotees of the Shake It Off singer)

Design dealers set the tone at Tefaf New York

Despite the fair’s small stands in comparison to its Dutch sister fair, gallerists are pairing art with functional design

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Annie Leibovitz reveals why she took on commission for Ikea

The superstar photographer will capture homes in seven countries this year for the Swedish mega furniture chain

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‘It is a crime against humanity’: Ai Weiwei discusses refugees in the UK, moving on from Covid and why Lego is his medium of choice

Design Museum exhibition brings together more than a million pieces collected by the artist including spouts and Stone Age tools

Marc Camille Chaimowicz: the artist quietly challenging the boundaries between art, décor and design

Two overlapping exhibitions see the Paris-born, London-based artist discuss his influences and inspirations, and the pleasure derived from including some of his late mother’s work

From a marble toilet roll to a giant Lego structure: Ai Weiwei's new London show looks at the value of objects

Exhibition at the Design Museum will include the artist's works drawing on the Covid-19 pandemic

Mushrooms, moss and disco ball mirrors: our seven favourite works from Design Miami

The fair's theme this year "The Golden Age" looked towards the future amid present global uncertainties

The first mega-gallery for design? Inside Carpenters Workshop’s ambitious expansion

The gallery is planning a major, multivalent location to open in London in the spring of 2023, adding to locations in Paris, New York and Los Angeles

Sound installation puts voice of artist Maggie Jencks back into the Postmodern house she helped create in London

Edwin Heathcote—'keeper of meaning' at The Cosmic House built by the Postmodernist theorist Charles Jencks and his wife Maggie—explains how a sound work is bringing the building back to life

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Caterpillars, spiders and silkworms: our six favourite works at PAD London

Creepy crawly-inspired pieces caught our eye at the art and design fair

Dutch design studio update 19th-century Dordrecht church facade with a surreal glass sculpture balanced on four bronze turtles

The transformed Protestant building is being relaunched as an exhibition space and cultural centre called Kunstkerk, or art church.

Past futures: Triennale Milano embraces virtual reality to recreate design landmarks from its 99-year history

Tech developers are collaborating with museum curators to build a digital “time machine” to revisit lost installations

The best of Design Miami/Basel, from Virgil Abloh's concrete chair to Gio Ponti's Moon Lamp

Our top six picks from the design fair across the Messeplatz from Art Basel

How do you conserve a sculpture designed to decay?

Neri Oxman’s exhibition at SFMOMA features two versions of a sculpture made with bio-composite materials, one of which will decompose over the course of show

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The little-known role of design in the art of Paul Nash

The British surrealist painter and war artist was also a talented designer and illustrator with a notably diverse portfolio

Meet the man making millions for Western museums in China

Following his alliance with the British Museum, Yizan He has now secured global licensing rights to sell branded products in partnership with major art institutions worldwide

Back to nature: the design world ups its sustainability game

Under the theme of “Human Kind”, the works on show at Design Miami are focused on diversity in all its forms

Bas van Beek: Reviver of lost design gems

The Dutch maker learns about the creative process by making unrealised archived designs

Bauhaus, Baroque and Marcel Duchamp: Virgil Abloh's life in art

The fashion designer, who died on Sunday at the age of 41, had exhibitions at some of the world's leading art institutions and collaborated with major contemporary artists