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'The Tempest' gets a high-tech makeover

By Nick Glass, CNN

In a spectacular finale to the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, the Royal Shakespeare Company has boldly embraced digital special effects for a new production of "The Tempest" in his birthplace of Stratford-upon-Avon.

Inside world's most luxurious bathrooms

A bathroom with a view has become something of a modern attraction, but one couple have been working on breathtaking bathrooms for decades.

Jodie Harsh. DJ. My favourite thing ever actually happened tonight - I broke my finger backstage by slamming it in the door. It hurt like hell but I quite enjoyed all the drama with the paramedics and of course I still went out and DJ'd!

Why this club night is more than a party

Londoners have a history of creating global trends. From teddy boys and mods, to punks and New Romantics, subcultural movements are in the city's DNA.

Surreal scenes of autos gone rogue

By Ben Griffin, CNN

For Chris Labrooy, reality is just a suggestion.

What started as a project with a few friends in 2012 has become an ambitious photo-documentary project with international reach.

This forbidden art is booming in Jordan

by Kate Springer, CNN

One of 20-year-old Texana Mubaidin's defining features is her elaborate tattoo.

500-year-old secrets unlocked

By Allyssia Alleyne, CNN

At the Art Gallery of Ontario, experts are exhibiting new findings about how 500-year-old boxwood carvings were constructed.

The Rothschild family built 44 grand houses in the 19th century including Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire, England. This photo of the smoking room is a perfect example of what has become the decorating style known as Le Goût Rothschild, an elaborate and ornate approach to design. "Some Rothschild houseguests purportedly found the weight of the assembled riches oppressive. But it didn't seem to stop them from coming back for more," writes James Reginato in his new book Great Houses Modern Aristocrats.

The opulent homes of Britain's aristocrats

"Great Houses: Modern Aristocrats" gives readers a look inside Britain's stately mansions and the often remarkable stories of the families who own them.

NEW YORK, NY - MAY 10: Artist Helen Marten attends the 2014 Frieze New York Art Fair at Randall's Island on May 10, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Michael Stewart/Getty Images)

Helen Marten wins 2016 Turner Prize

By Nick Glass, CNN

31-year-old artist Helen Marten wins the Turner Prize, one of the art world's most prestigious prizes.

Smooth-leaved Elm, in training since 1982 -- Photographer Stephen Voss captured this smooth-leaved elm while it was indoors. "I was really taken by the light that day which came in through the skylights and felt diffuse and crisp at the same time, rendering the tree more like an old painting than a photograph," says Voss.

The ancient secrets behind bonsai

By Kate Springer, CNN

"I am always caring for my bonsai trees -- it's as necessary for me as eating every day," says award-winning bonsai sensei, Kunio Kobayashi.

CAMPBELL REY (http://campbell-rey.com/)
When creating products from natural materials, we are taking from resources that are finite and whose extraction and use have an impact on the planet. This comes with a level of responsibility as a designer. In fifty years time, we envisage the ability to 3D print what are now rare, desirable and beautiful natural materials like marble, minerals and rosewood. This technology would be readily available, following the already nascent movement of large corporations like Tesla making their intellectual property public, to allow others to develop them for the benefit of mankind as a whole. This would allow for a democratisation of materiality, as well as the creation of neo-natural materials without any detriment the environment. Something like this would present a new set of boundaries for designers, and would change the way we think about our surroundings. And while we're at it, these neo-natural materials could be bio-renewable or degradable on demand. Now, wouldn't that be something?

Designers imagine the year 2066

By Natalia Rachlin, CNN

Today's leading design thinkers, makers, movers and shakers present products and predictions for life in 2066.

Virgil Abloh debuts abstract furniture

At Design Miami, Virgil Abloh, Kanye West's creative director, debuted what he calls "a new vocabulary" for furniture design.

Art Basel Miami Beach tributes Bowie

By Janelle Zara, CNN

This year, Art Basel Miami Beach has taken a cue from David Bowie's 1969 single "Space Oddity" with its "Ground Control" Public sector exhibition.