New London hotel offers artistic sensibilities at affordable prices
The Green Rooms hotel and creative space in north London will act as a low-cost base for visiting artists and encourage collaboration on projects
Ann Prior obituary
Other lives: Cook, author, artist and adventurer who contrived to live in perpetual summer
Shia LaBeouf embarks on a digital road trip: #TAKEMEANYWHERE
The actor and performance artist is hitchhiking for a month and inviting the public to track him down and take him … anywhere
How Carleton Watkins’ photographs shaped Yosemite Valley’s future
Abraham Lincoln’s 1864 law to preserve California’s Yosemite Valley may have helped create the National Park Service but it was Carleton Watkins’ striking images that inspired the president
Havana rising: the millennials pushing Cuba forward
Forget trying to see Cuba before it changes: the change is going on right now
Modernist living: let your mind wander at Alain de Botton’s Life House
The latest house in the philosopher’s Living Architecture project is a minimalist space in Wales that offers an expansive – if expensive – escape from everyday life
Top 10 industrial-chic hotels and hostels
If you’re a fan of the raw concrete and exposed brick aesthetic, book into one of these converted factories or offices where the design is bare, bold and beautiful
Sarajevo city guide: 10 of the best art and design-inspired destinations
A vibrant, walkable city, Sarajevo is thriving thanks, in part, to its contemporary culture and art, which is on display at galleries … and also its restaurants, bars and hotels
A serene escape for Scream painter Edvard Munch
The artist known for angst-ridden paintings used to find peace in Åsgårdstrand, an old-fashioned fishing town in southern Norway
10 of the best places to photograph wildlife in the UK
You don’t need to go on an African safari to take great wildlife photographs. Photographer Andrew Marshall, whose new photo-location guidebook gives advice on how to capture UK wildlife, selects 10 picture perfect spots
10 of the best European cities for art nouveau
Art nouveau swept across Europe around the turn of the 20th century and was embraced by architects, graphic and interior designers and artists. Here are the best cities in Europe to get a flavour of its most impressive buildings
10 of the best industrial-chic spaces worldwide
At these cool conceptual spaces, the design is just as compelling as what’s on offer at the shopping, exhibition, dining and drinking venues
A concrete plan: Flaine ski resort gets a modernist makeover
A revamp of an iconic 60s hotel in the French Alps transforms a once maligned purpose-built ski resort into an industrial-chic budget skiing base
Readers’ travel photography competition: March
Our monthly photo competitions have no theme this year – we just want your best travel shots. Enter your image via GuardianWitness and you could win a seven-night ‘Secret Fjords’ self-drive holiday to Iceland for two with Discover the World
Bed down with Van Gogh, your Airbnb host for the night
The Art Institute of Chicago has teamed up with Airbnb to enable guests to stay in its latest installation, a recreation of Van Gogh’s Bedroom in Arles