Art

One of a recent crop of galleries crossing between the fields of high-end design and sculptural art, the gallery shows futuristic designs by Jurgen Bey, Ron Arad and Atelier van Lieshout. For Designart, they will be unveiling a brand new collaboration with British artist Marc Quinn as well as furnisculpture by Wendell Castle

All participants pay close attention to their lighting but this Tribeca-based furniture dealer has decided to entrust the illuminations entirely to one American designer, Jeff Zimmerman, who has created a site-specific ceiling of glass-blown sculptural chandeliers to help show off their wares

Vintage Scandinavian design has become something of a staple at mid-century furniture fairs and the look was endlessly copied throughout the 1970s. However, local experts Dansk show the real thing – chairs by Fin Juhl and Arne Jacobsen for example – always set within a stunning and minimal arrangement

These young Parisian gallerists are newcomers to the Designart fair and are just as likely to collaborate on installations with fashion or industrial designers such as Doshi Levien of London as they are with one-off furniture makers such as Rolf Sachs or Nanda Vigo. Expect pop colours and exotic influences

Specialists in the much-maligned decorative arts (an older name for ‘Designart’), this Belgian gallery shows artists working in silver, stone and ceramics. Their slick presentations combine the functional and wearable with the out-and-out bizarre and colourful work, seen in a special display of American potter Ron Nagle that the gallery is bringing to the fair

How much can art influence politics, and vice versa? From the court painters of the Renaissance to the paranoid propaganda of the Cold War, Time Out kicks off a month of features on the subject by casting a historical eye over the two realms’ uneasy relationship

With performances and exhibitions in venues dotted around Shoreditch, ‘Concrete and Glass’ celebrates an array of emerging talent. Time Out sees what happens when the worlds of art and music collude

Professor Wendy Dagworthy, head of School of Fashion and Textiles, RCA is one of Time Out London’s 40th birthday heroes