Teen World of Arts

Berlin has no shortage of art, even without an Art Week. But at the Gemäldegalerie, among Cranachs and shirtless men in running gear, Alternde Meister made a case for looking at something we usually prefer not to: getting old. Read on for more.

Isamu Noguchi had plenty of ideas for New York. New York, unfortunately, didn’t always want them. At the Noguchi Museum in Queens, his unrealised playgrounds reveal an artist determined to make the city a little less serious — and a lot more playful. Read on for more.

Lisbon wasn’t quite what we expected. Its Museum of Contemporary Art was even less so. Somewhere between Bourgeois, Bacon, and a lobster telephone, my mother and I found ourselves in one of the best museums I’d visited in a long time. Read on to find out why.

Japan has been making food you can’t eat for more than a century. Shokuhin sampuru began as practical visual menus, helping diners see what they were ordering; today, these hyper-realistic replicas have become an art form of their own.

The conservatoire was built for a rather different music industry: one without Instagram, portfolio careers or much talk of work-life balance. Three Royal College of Music musicians consider what the institution gets right — and what still needs to catch up.