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Hermès @hermes has opened more than a store in London. At 166 New Bond Street, the French house has created something closer to a maison than a flagship: part residence, part museum, part architectural journey.

Six Grade II-listed buildings,
James Turrell’s As Seen Below – The Dome is not simply a new museum installation. It is one of the most significant additions to the artist’s celebrated Skyspace series and a major cultural moment for ARoS.

More than a decade in th
In Francis Bacon’s portraits of George Dyer, likeness is never the point. The face is a site of pressure, the body a field of collapse, compression and resistance. Dyer appears not as a stable subject, but as someone being held together by pain
“Estimated in the range of £200 million, this will be the most valuable single-owner collection ever offered at auction in Europe.” - Sotheby’s

Joe Lewis, most known as the long-time majority owner of Tottenham Hotspur footba
A future house museum, an Italian wunderkammer, and the private world of Filippo Perego di Cremnago.

In Villareale di Cassolnovo, within the Parco del Ticino, Perego’s buen retiro unfolds as a deeply personal universe: part residence, part arc
Before Sweden became an international fantasy of freedom, summer and skin, Anders Zorn had already painted it into being.

Born in Mora in 1860, he rose from rural Dalarna to become arguably the most internationally successful Swedish artist who ever
Pierre Huyghe at Fondation Beyeler does not feel like entering an exhibition. It feels like entering a body. This was an amazing experience.

The museum becomes a breathing mechanism. A living, unstable organism in which air, sound, image, machine in
The Parisian home of Jacques Garcia is exactly what one hopes it will be: theatrical, layered, excessive, learned, and entirely uninterested in the bland good taste of the moment.

One of the great decorators of the past half-century, Garcia has buil
You are invited to the opening of STUGAN with Olle Witt

RMV Music and The Art Bystander invite you to private view of STUGAN’s first Studio Residency, featuring Stockholm-based painter Olle Witt.

Over the course of one week on Skeppsholmen, O
I had the privilege to meet with Lea Bischofberger, one of the friendliest persons in the art world, with such radiance.

She is a Zurich-based gallerist and art dealer whose life and work are bound up with one of the most remarkable legacies in post
A small Warsaw apartment with grand design ambitions.

This 48-square-metre flat in the Śródmieście district is less a neutral city home than a highly considered interior landscape; part apartment, part design cabinet, part private gallery.

D
Some galleries you visit. The Rundhof you end up circling.

It’s the courtyard at the centre of Messe Basel, and at Art Basel it doubles as the centre of the fair. Hauser & Wirth, Gagosian, Pace, Goodman Gallery all sit around it. The booth
Helen Frankenthaler in Basel, and the rooms are glowing.

Over fifty works from six decades fill the Neubau galleries, a comprehensive look at one of the central figures of postwar American painting. The exhibition was prompted by the museum’s
Imagine getting married at a gallery opening in 1969. The crazy part is, well, getting married in the public eye. Now imagine getting married at a gallery opening in 2026. 

What’s unhinged about that is no longer the limelight on your intimate
I had the privilege of meeting Chloe Wise @chloewise_ today at her Basel exhibition, and I left floored. The film is an extraordinary production, and the curation, the entire world she builds from the moment you step through the entrance, completely
Of Form and Color: Art and Design from the @emmanueldebayser Collection at @sothebys is the kind of collection that reminds you taste is about relationships rather than accumulation. Between art and furniture, ceramics and architecture, light and dai
LISTE 2026 opens Basel week with the energy the art world needs most: young galleries, emerging positions, the sharper edges of contemporary practice.

More than 100 galleries from 36 countries this year, which keeps LISTE in its long-held role as Ba
During Art Basel week, Basel Social Club returns with one of its most fitting settings yet: an empty office building near Basel SBB, reactivated as a temporary ecosystem of art, performance, music, gastronomy and unscripted encounter.

Now in its fif
An afternoon at Fondation Beyeler feels like the perfect way to begin a hectic week in Basel.

Alongside the major Pierre Huyghe exhibition, the museum is currently showing Various Signs, a collection presentation that brings together works concerned
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