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Engaging with arts improves quality of life, increases productivity and creates financial 'dividend'

Science Museum, London Feats of hydraulic engineering, surgical innovations, midwifery machines there was much more to the palace than Marie-Antoinette's shepherdess cosplay ...

Sönje Storm's thoughtful film about her great-grandfather Jürgen Mahrt focuses on his photographs of nature and ignores the horror unfolding around him ...

The Canadian artist's carefully staged photographs provoke fascination and unease. And it's all words, no art, in Room 17a of the National Gallery ...

How the pandemic and climate migration have influenced this third outing of a formerly sterile architectural puzzle game ...

From nan ornaments to an African pounding table, our panel of creative experts pick their favourite designs from the last 12 months ...

After disaster struck Notre Dame in 2019, Axelle Ponsonnet began to draw parts of the cathedral exposed by the fire, some not seen for centuries. A new book documents what she discovered ...

Art defines the space in an apartment in an iconic building whose Brutalist architecture once led to protests ...

An extraordinary restoration has swept away the lead dust and made the cathedral vivid, but thankfully not kitsch. Our architecture critic takes a look inside ...

The Dutch photographer's shot of a nine-year-old girl from a motorhome site in Arizona is part of a series that calls into question the appetite for material wealth ...