Culture
Refreshingly different things to do this March
What to do, see and eat in the UK this month, from open gardens to craft fairs
Awesome undertaking: a chapel of rest turned studio in Surrey
Creator of bespoke furniture, lighting and sculpture, artist Ian Bishop can finally wrest in peace now he’s ensconced in his slightly unorthodox workspace
Emerging makers to seek out at Collect art fair
As the influential emerging-artists showcase prepares to hit Somerset House, we round up the makers we’re most keen to see
Love me tender: A new exhibition at Tenderbooks, London, pulls focus on compassion
In a wider context of economic, political and climate crisis, six women artists call instead for tenderness to be prioritised
Our highlights from Nomad St. Moritz 2024
WoI’s Style Director handpicks his top moments from the celebrated travelling arts fair
Zuleika Melluish muses on breaking the bounds of a compositor’s tray, her prize possession
For her One Lasting Thing, the artist considers an object which has been variously a raised bed, drying rack, sculpture showcase and cabinet of curiosities
Co-conspirators: The Untold Story of Dorothy Hepworth and Patricia Preece
The upcoming exhibition at Charleston Lewes shines a light on an artistic subterfuge that fooled patrons and fellow artists from Virginia Woolf to Duncan Grant.
Fossil fuel: the open-access science institute that helped feed a generation of aficionados
The air in the virtually unchanged Wagner Free Institute of Science in Philadelphia is still thick with the Victorian fervour for natural history
With this ring: the eternal appeal of Cartier’s ‘Trinity'
For the past 100 years, a certain Cartier interlocking ring has captivated everyone from Elsie de Wolfe to His Majesty the King. So what’s behind its enduring popularity?
A history of Paris told by objects found in the Seine
Objects once lost to the Seine’s murky depths have been recovered and displayed in a new exhibition, one that celebrates Paris’s flowing river of time