Kate Bryan and Will Best spend an arty weekend in Bejing; Charming Baker visits stone sculptor Emily Young at her home and studio in Tuscany; and Carrie Scott goes to Detroit, where artists are setting up studios in buildings left derelict due to the city’s financial troubles.

Carrie Scott meets American artist Rashid Johnson as he makes new work in Paris and New York; Dr James Fox heads to Mexico, to the source of the world’s most beautiful red pigment, cochineal; and Will Best and Kate Bryan spend an arty weekend in Tokyo.