Culture

The World of Interiors x Montblanc Writing Open Call 2026 invites all emerging writers to submit 500-word works that explore this year’s theme: Doors & Drawers

Henry Taylor intervenes in the canon of Western art history at Musée National Picasso-Paris, where his works are brought into ever closer proximity with the fabled modernist

Frida Kahlo’s butterfly-based self-portrait is not the dainty trinket it may seem. As Lottie Jackson argues, this talisman invokes the power of mythic warriors in metamorphosis

In a 200-year-old barn in Cumbria, Monty Lewis has parlayed his childhood obsession with traditional Scottish dress into a full-time calling. To the Scots, he reckons, sporrans are like cherished pets

House parties have a proud history as potent crucibles for everything from flings to artistic coteries – but little is said about how the actual spaces serve to catalyse connections. Keiran Yates raises her red paper cup

Once the likes of Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon might have wound up chez the Two Roberts, the art-world darlings of the mid-1940s – before things fell apart just years later. Robin Muir hymns their London studio

Tom Hunter’s photographs of 1980s and 90s Hackney squats bristle with romance and creativity, highlighting the struggles of young renters today

Why do exotic Black figures remain popular in Europe? Because under the guise of decoration, the instinct to critically engage is dulled, argues art historian Adrienne Childs

Thanks to a gleaming Sarah Oppenheimer sculpture, Deb Olin Unferth sees her Texas campus in a new light

Artist Quinto Martini’s Tuscan museum park is adorned with artworks that hymn the unsung delights of daily life