bugatti turns the bolide into the one-off ‘destrier’
 
At The Quail during Monterey Car Week, designboom watched Bugatti pull the cover from the Destrier for its first public appearance. The car is the third creation from Programme Solitaire, Bugatti’s ultra-exclusive coachbuilding program for one-off commissions developed for a single customer. Each begins with existing Bugatti engineering, then receives its own body, interior and design identity.
 
For the Destrier, that starting point is the Bolide, the marque’s track-only hypercar built around a carbon-fiber chassis and its 1,600 PS W16 engine.
 
Thus, the Destrier is an unusual exercise in subtraction. The Bolide was designed around lap times,...

No one knows whether this house or the large trees in its courtyard appeared on the site first. Chinese scholar trees, persimmon trees, and ginkgo trees stood tall, their expansive canopies intertwining with the woodland beyond the courtyard walls. Together, they created a powerful atmosphere—one that evoked ideas such as returning to nature or living in deliberate seclusion. Compared with its neighbors to the north, the House seemed to stand precisely at the boundary between human habitation and the natural world. The family of four who owned the house all shared a deep love of life. Beyond their work and studies, the father devoted himself to ceramics. The mother decorated the home's walls with her own...

Star artist Anna Weyant has painted designer Marc Jacobs for the cover of Vanity Fair‘s 2026 Style issue. The magazine’s cover story, “Marc Jacobs Cannot Tell a Lie,” delves into Jacobs’ four decades in fashion and the sale of his namesake, $850 million label, Marc Jacobs International. In Weyant’s up-close portrait, Jacobs faces the viewer, meeting their gaze, with stone-faced composure against a dark background. Were it not for the artist’s characteristic Dutch Old Master painterly style, and subtle hints at an underlying flamboyance through details like Jacobs’ fashion accessories (teal flower earrings, the ruffled collar of a Chanel tweed top, salon hair clips), the artwork’s framing and...

“I’m taken over by this impossible life of hers”

Finnegan Shannon, "Hello from my bedside table" (2022), vinyl banner (all photos Sara Reisman/Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted)MEDINA, N.Y. — It was artist Mary Mattingly, known for her large-scale, often livable floating structures that address climate change in the form of rising water, who first told me about the Medina Triennial about a year ago. Knowing that Mattingly was launching her “Floating Garden” (2026), a new, permanent iteration of Swale, a publicly accessible edible garden she first launched on New York City’s East River in 2016, was enough to get me to Medina. But having attended the opening weekend of the Venice Biennale the month before, I was wary of traveling to see art at a...

An ancient Mesoamerican skull is now in the possession of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) in Mexico, more than a year after it was repatriated from the Netherlands, according to reports. It’s planned that the skull will eventually be displayed in the Yucu Saa Community Museum in Villa de Tututepec, Oaxaca in […]

There are only a handful of soon-to-be-cancelled plans left this summer, which ultimately leaves me with far too much time to ruminate on anything and everything.I want to get to know my neighbors better, but I refuse to take off my headphones when I’m on the go. I say I’ll spend more time making the most of what the city has to offer, but I often just stop at CVS before going straight home. I tell myself I should make more art just for fun, but I’m so critical of my output that I don’t even put anything out. When I’m not agonizing over my self-defined and over-inflated wrongs, I’m stuck on the untimely loss of Hayden Panettiere, which followed shortly after that of Daveigh Chase; how Luigi...

Taiwanese artists are accusing the Gwangju Biennale of political censorship after event organizers axed the country's name from promotional materials.

Alejandro Aguilar Canela finds profound value in what may be seen as some of our bleakest emotions. Delving into subject matters such as depression, anger, abandonment, fear, individuality, sexuality, and more, Canela strives to understand the multitudes within each, and how their shadowy paths have the ability lead us somewhere brighter. Though occasionally venturing into sculpture, the Austin, Texas-based artist specializes in drawing. His works range in size, with many of his compositions spanning two to four feet wide on both traditional paper and vellum. Canela largely employs graphite and fine line mechanical pencil, welcoming “mistakes” or inadvertent motifs—such as smudges and unplanned...

When Prempeh I was enstooled as Asantehene (king of the Asante Empire) in 1888, his immediate concern was the British presence on the Gold Coast of Africa. Barely a decade had passed since colonial forces led by Sir Garnet Wolseley sacked the Asante capital of Kumasi, unleashing devastating violence. That trauma still lingers: The Asante people remember the 1873–74 war as the “Sagrenti War,” a corruption of Wolseley’s name.Prempeh would not prevail. In late 1895, British forces under Sir Francis Scott marched into Kumasi again, looting and burning the royal palace and mausoleum. They demanded not only a vast indemnity in gold but also the Golden Stool, the most sacred symbol of Asante identity. Prempeh...

The faculty union at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City says some of its members were “blindsided” by the cancellations of courses and programs as the school pursues budget cuts amid a $22 million structural deficit, the largest in its 79-year history. On July 1, nearly a year after 30 SVA employees were laid off due to “financial challenges,” the school's interim president Christopher J. Cyphers said in an all-staff email that the school will introduce measures to reduce operating costs. He cited multiple factors, including “the ongoing dismantling of education and the arts by the federal government,” a 40% drop in enrollment since 2019, and a dwindling international student...

The prosecutor’s office of the republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol is investigating two unnamed researchers, one of them associated with the Hermitage, for war crimes. The prosecutors say they participated in illegal archaeological expeditions in the territory, which has been occupied by Russia since 2014. The charges could result in sentences of up to 12 years in prison. The second person of interest is a representative of “the so-called ‘Institute of Archaeology of Crimea of the Russian Academy of Sciences,’” per the prosecutor.  The prosecutor announced the investigation on Monday.  The suspects have allegedly been involved since 2014 in unpermitted digs in Medieval Solkhat, in the...

The theft of four paintings by Renaissance master Antonello da Messina from a Sicilian museum has prompted suspicions of mafia involvement, given the startling speed and ease of the high-stakes crime, Italian authorities said on Monday.  “It’s a very, very strange affair,” Messina’s top culture official, Enzo Caruso, told Reuters, detailing the troubling circumstances: The thieves broke into the Regional Museum of Messina on the night of August 15, bypassed the museum’s alarm system, broke into security display boxes, and fled the scene with the three of five surviving panels that composed the altarpiece Polittico di San Gregorio, and a fourth, smaller painting, within a matter of minutes. It’s...

Diya Vij, commissioner of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA), named two new positions within the agency: Bryan Joseph Lee will serve as deputy commissioner, and Ryan Max will serve as chief of staff. Max has been the director of external affairs at DCLA for 11 years—he first joined the department in 2013. […]

Located on an infill lot in San Rafael, Mendoza, the house is inserted into a low-density urban fabric characterized by the presence of vegetation in both private courtyards and public spaces. In this context, the project seeks to reinforce the relationship with the green surroundings and build a gradual transition between the public sphere and the domestic realm.

The oldest existing fragment of The Odyssey, Homer’s eternally relevant epic Greek poem that’s recently been adapted into a high-profile blockbuster, has just gone on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art after a long hiatus from being on public view.  The fragment is a Ptolemaic relic that dates to around 285-250 BCE, and was […]

A book of immaculate drawings that has been stewarded by the Van Eeghen family in the Netherlands for more than three centuries has been donated to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, where it will go on view starting August 19. In a press release, the museum said, “The Van Eeghen Drawing Book can be considered a new highlight of the Rijksmuseum Print Room Collection, as well as one of the most significant additions to this collection in recent years.” The institution also noted that it is exceptionally rare for a 17th-century drawing book—“carefully kept and passed down from generation to generation”—to have survived completely intact. Attribution for the book had long been unknown until around two...

 
Exploring the people, places, and cultures that shape cities around the world, The City Series showcases images that respond to place not as a fixed subject, but as an idea shaped by experience, observation, and interpretation.
100 images of the city. Welcome to Cambridge.
Published by Shutter Hub Editions, and with a foreword by Alice Ryan, this beautiful collection of 100 images of Cambridge is a portrait of the city through the eyes of international photographers.
Order THE CITY SERIES: CAMBRIDGE here.
   
The photographers featured in THE CITY SERIES: CAMBRIDGE are: Zaklina Anderson, Robert Barcia, Viktor Barkhatov, Catherine Breslin, Tara Bucklow, Tiina Burton, Alison Carter, steven chandler, Alice...

The preexisting single-story house did not accommodate the spatial needs of the new residents. It was necessary to add another floor, but we did not want to alter the original proportions of the construction.

“For me, paintings represent an attempt (sometimes more successful, sometimes less so) to grasp a ‘something’ that for some reason deeply moves me, agitates me,” says Turin-based artist Francesco Pirazzi. In atmospheric, dreamlike paintings, deceptively simple architecture, trees, walkways, and other features of the landscape glow amid uncanny lighting. “What drives my research is the feeling that something in reality is slightly off, that before my eyes lies an indecipherable enigma,” Pirazzi says, adding that he enjoys the way painting can encompass both reality and the “unknowable world,” and the ways they irresistibly converge. Deep shadows, minimalist archways, luminescent clouds, and...

a five-minute escape from monterey car week
 
By the middle of Monterey Car Week, the entire peninsula is buzzing with engine noise. The days begin early and run late, with unveilings, concours lawns and drives up and down the coast, and supercars roaring into the night. When we hopped into the driver’s seat of the 2027 Lincoln Nautilus and closed the door, the contrast was immediate and welcome. We were sitting inside the new Eminent Hour Black Label interior, surrounded by deep purples and warm copper tones, about to spend five minutes just sitting still, something that’s fairly unusual during Car Week.
 
From the Nautilus’ 48-inch panoramic display, we chose a forest meditation. Sunlight glowed...

Island Records and EMI have unveiled their redesigned shared headquarters in King’s Cross

THE GALLERY BECOMES A STAGE
 
For Berlin Art Week 2026, German artist André Wendland turns BETTER GO SOUTH into something between a gallery, a theatre and a particularly elaborate visual trick. Titled On Stage, the solo exhibition explores the language of performance spaces and set design through large-format paintings populated by curtains, proscenium-like frames, props and strangely theatrical fragments of everyday life. Created during a summer residency in Berlin, the series treats looking itself as a staged event, asking how framing, placement and light can quietly choreograph the way people perceive a space.
 
Taking cues from John Cage’s attention to ordinary sound, Wendland shifts that logic toward...

PORFIRIO takes a clear stance on the consolidated city: to densify without losing identity. Located less than a hundred meters from Parque Hundido, the project recognizes not only an environmental value in its immediate context, but also a material memory linked to the clay extraction that gave rise to the Noche Buena neighborhood. The complex is organized around two vertical volumes articulated by a horizontal base that integrates housing and commerce, establishing an active relationship with the street. Rather than an isolated object, the project acts as a piece of urban fabric: the ground-floor retail space, with independent access on Porfirio Díaz Avenue, extends public life, while the housing rises to...

Pi Artworks has announced the representation of Istanbul-based artist Antonio Cosentino, a founding member of Hafriyat Collective

A RAILING DETAIL TAKES CENTER STAGE
 
A steel sphere usually relegated to the edges of architecture becomes the building block for Wishes Collection, a series of furniture and objects by Reza Raeisifar and Saber Abar. Borrowing from the logic of modular systems — and, more broadly, the way complex structures emerge from the repetition of smaller elements — the designers take a single spherical component and multiply it into chairs, benches, lighting, and even a home for pets. What once played a supporting role on a railing has, quite literally, moved to center stage.
 
Across the collection, identical polished steel spheres are assembled into structures that change character according to their scale and...

Lee Bul brings new sculptures, paintings and future ruins to Hauser & Wirth New York for the gallery’s first exhibition with the Korean artist.

“He never had a birthday cake, so we ordered a birthday cake for him,” reads one plate. “He was only 15,” reads another dated July 23, 1945, with images of chicken drumsticks and watermelon. Yet another reads, ornately, “NONE,” dated May 22, 2002. These are just a few of the ceramic pieces comprising the expansive series The Last Supper by artist Julie L. Green (1961-2021). Between 1999 and 2001, Green collected an array of mass-produced ceramic platters and plates, re-firing with the addition of cobalt blue mineral paint to illustrate everything from pizzas and lobster to pies and KFC cartons. The project was spurred by an Oklahoma newspaper clipping published in 1999 that described one man’s...

Artists have sold their work through galleries, art fairs and auction houses to collectors worldwide for centuries: walk in, look... Read More

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! The Headlines MAI, OH MAI. Joshua Reynolds’s monumental 18th-century portrait of Mai, a young Tahitian man who arrived in London with Captain Cook in 1774, will soon make its West Coast debut, the Los Angeles Times reports. After a joint acquisition, for more than $61 million, between the Getty Museum in Los Angeles and the National Portrait Gallery in Los Angeles, the eight-foot painting made a transatlantic and transcontinental trek to the Getty, where it is currently undergoing intensive conservation research, which has so far revealed layers of paint, revisions, and...

At Casa Damata, located in the rural area of Itatiba (SP), the interior design by Melina Romano builds upon Otto Felix's architecture and Daniel Nunes's landscaping to reinforce the relationship between the residence and its surrounding landscape. The design extends the materiality and construction references of the rural São Paulo context indoors, coordinating materials, furniture, lighting, and artwork into a continuous language between interior and exterior.

The Rijksmuseum has received an exceptionally rare 17th-century drawing book that remained in the same family for more than 300 years.

Erik Kruug captures a way of living shaped by water
 
Erik Kruug’s aerial photographs of the Loosdrecht Lakes in the Netherlands reveal a way of living in which land and water are difficult to separate. Houses sit on narrow strips of land between canals and lakes, with gardens, decks, boats and small paths extending directly into the water. From above, the landscape looks almost like a collection of green brushstrokes floating across a dark surface. Look closer and each one contains a home.
 
The Loosdrecht Lakes, between Amsterdam and Utrecht, were not always lakes. The area was originally a low-lying peat landscape, too wet for conventional agriculture. From the 16th century onward, peat was extracted...

The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) has announced Brett Littman as its new director and CEO. From 2018 to 2023, Littman served as director of the Noguchi Museum in Long Island City, New York. He succeeds Kathryn Kanjo, who left after nine years in the role to become the inaugural director of the  UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum. Littman has operated […]

Known for his large origami-style works, Sipho Mabona turns his attention to a deeply personal object in a new series: the calabash. The hollowed, dried gourd is native to tropical Africa and utilized across the continent as a bottle-like vessel for food and beverage. In The Calabashes We Never Drank Amasi From, Mabona translates his familial connection to the functional fruit into vibrant patterns made from recycled milk cartons. “The starting point for my audiovisual series of works is my childhood memories of my late father’s stories about his own childhood in the rural Eastern Cape of South Africa,” he says. “One memory that was especially close to his heart, and which he often told my siblings and...

From mysterious lights and malevolent mists to ghosts and spirits like the Diné’s skinwalkers, the desert has long spawned myths and tales of the supernatural. The American West, in particular, is characterized by its vast canyons, plateaus, and mountains, along with the rugged individualism of its inhabitants who make their lives in a landscape many would deem inhospitable. It’s also not difficult to imagine how the atmospheres of powerful monsoons, the unrelenting sun, or the light of a full moon may conjure the uncanny. Wiley Wallace, who is based in Phoenix, harnesses the magic of the desert in glowing acrylic paintings featuring crystals, enigmatic energy forces, starlight, and specters. His current...

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Le sculture di Anna Maria Maiolino (Scalea, 1942) si accumulano. Si ammucchiano per ripetizione e sono costruite da gesti infiniti e dal tatto. Ma questi piccoli gesti quotidiani non sono solamente pratica artistica: visualizzano come la vulnerabilità e la sensibilità, il tatto e la cura, possono essere un atto di resistenza. La Galleria Ovale del Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT) di Lisbona, Portogallo, racchiude queste sculture create con modalità ripetitiva. La mostra si intitola Poetic Earth. Alcune delle opere sono state realizzate decenni fa, altre sono state create in situ, proprio in questo spazio a forma di foglia.
View of the exhibition “Anna Maria Maiolino. Poetic Earth”,...

Ci sono artisti la cui carriera coincide con una lunga ricerca e altri che, raggiunta una determinata soglia, sembrano aver trovato una lingua tanto riconoscibile da poter attraversare qualsiasi soggetto senza modificarne realmente la struttura. È una condizione rara, che appartiene a quei pochi autori il cui immaginario ha ormai assunto la forma di un universo autonomo, capace di assorbire temi, epoche e narrazioni mantenendo pressoché intatta la propria grammatica. Osservando Le Alchimiste, il mastodontico progetto concepito da Anselm Kiefer per la Sala delle Cariatidi di Palazzo Reale, a Milano, a cura di Gabriella Belli, la sensazione è proprio questa: non quella di assistere a una svolta, quanto...

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La pittura contemporanea ha spesso trasformato il ritorno in una narrazione di recupero: un’interruzione superata, una perdita convertita in nuova possibilità. When the Sun Shines Again, la prima grande personale newyorkese di Guimi You presso Lehmann Maupin, usa questa struttura per metterla in crisi. La mostra osserva ciò che accade quando il gesto artistico emerge da periodi di sospensione, quando il fare pittura si intreccia con la cura, l’attesa e forme di vita che tradizionalmente rimangono fuori dalla storia della produzione.
Guimi You, “When the Sun Shines Again”, installation view at Lehmann Maupin New York. Photography by Studio Kukla, courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Seoul...

Knokke Art Fair è una delle fiere d’arte più antiche al mondo e la più longeva tradizione internazionale sulla costa belga, un luogo speciale dove l’arte emoziona, giovani e anziani, curiosi ed esperti. Che sia ammirata tra le solenni mura di un luogo deputato o all’aria aperta (con una scultura site-specific), l’arte suscita emozioni, stimola la riflessione e invita al dialogo.
Vista esterna della location di Knokke Art Fair, edizione 2026
Knokke Art Fair è un evento del tutto indipendente, incentrato sulla qualità basata su un’accurata selezione che si svolge prima dell’apertura della fiera, ed è organizzata da Alexander Tuteleers. In questo luogo, il tempo sembra essersi fermato in...

Fino al 30 novembre 2026 il Parco Archeologico di Pompei ospita la mostra Philip Colbert in Pompeii: Pop Mythology. La mostra, curata da Cesare Biasini Selvaggi, espone oltre trenta sculture monumentali dell’artista britannico tra le quali protagonista assoluto è l’astice antropomorfo, alter ego dell’artista e ormai suo marchio riconoscibile.
Philip Colbert, ph. courtesy of the artist studio
Le opere di Colbert sono progettate per risultare subito leggibili e perfettamente compatibili con le aspettative della comunicazione social. Molti lavori si distinguono per l’uso di colori saturi, monumentalità, ironia pop e kitsch con citazioni della classicità ridotte a segni facilmente riconoscibili e nel...

By Betty Ann Brown "The idea becomes a machine that makes the art."—Sol LeWitt Dean De Cocker creates richly conceived, exquisitely crafted, and visually delightful artworks that shuttle between abstraction and conceptual representation. He has long been drawn to machines, from bicycles to motorcycles, cars to airplanes, and formal echoes of these devices appear in his current body of work, exhibited at the Visual Arts Center in the small Central California town of Visalia. Welcome to the...

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By Victoria Thomas Photographer and ceramic artist Catherine (Cathy) Opie first shocked and rocked the fine art world with her self-portraits during the late 1990s. Today, her decades of work — often termed confessional — now serve as context for the far more enigmatic Holding Blue installation, on view at Regen Projects through July 3. The Los Angeles-based artist identifies as a leather dyke, lesbian cowboy, an elder, and as "Mama Cathy," with a mustachioed male alter-ego named Bo. Opie is...

By Betty Ann Brown "Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation — I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances."—Henri Matisse Jill sykes by Eric Minh Swenson Jill Sykes creates beautiful paintings of botanical phenomena. Like Matisse, she translates three-dimensional objects into two-dimensional images, occupying the territory between abstraction and representation to achieve balance and equilibrium. From a very early age,...

By Victoria Thomas There's something about a hanging. Whether legal or not, the visual experience seems mythic, supernatural, theatrical, and ritualistic, versus the efficiency of a swift kill. If local authorities greenlight the killing, it's called a hanging. If they don't, the hanging is extrajudicial, and it's called a lynching. Anyone with even the scantiest grasp of American history will know that our country has a sordid romance with lynching — a romance which persists. And unless...

By Betty Ann Brown Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, February 22–June 28, 2026 Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.—Dolores Huerta The Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF, originally the Rebel Chicano Art Front) was an art collective founded in Sacramento in the early 1970s. The visual art members, who focused on printmaking and murals, collaborated with writers, musicians, performers, and teachers. Together, they...

It is credited with ‘democratising photography’ on a global level – and now Shutter Hub is making its most democratic move yet. As of this month, the organisation will pass into the control of the community it was built for, in what founder Karen Harvey MBE describes as ‘a logical next step: to make things more equitable we need multiple perspectives.’ The announcement follows Karen’s decision to remove paid memberships last year, making Shutter Hub ‘fully open-access and available at no cost to all’. It’s a typically altruistic move from the social entrepreneur: also the founder of Toiletries Amnesty, the award-winning NGO. She was made an MBE in 2024 for services to people living in hygiene...

The week of Art Basel is for me the most compelling moment in the city, and this year it reaffirmed its position as the most closely watched annual event in the international art calendar.

The City Series by Shutter Hub is an ongoing publishing project exploring the people, places, cultures, and contradictions that shape cities around the world. Rather than documenting a location as a fixed subject, the series invites photographers to respond to a city as an idea: something experienced, observed, imagined, and interpreted through the photographic eye.
For its second edition, we turn our attention to London in partnership with Battersea Power Supplies, a new museum and gift shop celebrating Battersea Power Station. We invite photographers from across the globe to contribute to a major publication celebrating one of the world’s most photographed, complex, and ever-changing cities. We want to see...

For an artist to return to painting after life‑altering injury is to witness the human spirit at its most unguarded. In such a moment, understanding the forces that carry you back to the page becomes all‑important, and in Joel Bradish Nichols’ case, the answers lie in the people and pursuits he had cherished. In a coma for months after a near‑fatal accident, his re‑emergence into artistic practice becomes inseparable from a narrative of devotion and determination — a surrounding spiritedness...

By Tabea Martin ‘Me Myself’ brings together four artists — Anna‑Lena Ruff, Debora Schultheiss, Tabea Martin, and Eva Schick — whose works move across differing styles and energies yet find in this art space an unforced coherence. I sense a shared thread of observation and inner dialogue, and a contemplation of natural female presence. The exhibition is currently showing at the Anja Edith Brinckmann Galerie, Basel. From here, the individual narratives invite a closer reading. By Anna-Lena...

 
Join us on Sunday 07 June from 1.30pm to celebrate the launch of INTO THE TREES by photographer Jo Stapleton, curated by Karen Harvey and published by Shutter Hub Editions.
INTO THE TREES is an expressionist photographic account of Jo’s interactions with trees and woodland, later remembered and reimagined in the darkroom using a range of alternative processes and techniques.
Drinks and canapés will be served from 1.30pm before the formal launch event at 2pm, including a book signing and interview discussion between Karen and Jo about the making of the book and the role photography has to play in helping to protect our wildlife and green spaces.
To celebrate the launch of the book, Jo has produced a...

In the forest nothing stands still. Time layered through thoughts and feelings, leaves kicked and crunched as we walk. The trees talk to each other, sending mycelium messages, carbon gifts, and warnings of drought or illness. From ancient wisdom to popular culture, it’s all here.
If a tree falls in the forest and there’s nobody there to hear it, did it make a sound? Of course it did. And if Jo Stapleton was there to capture the moment, there would be a visual symphony of light, shape and form to follow.
Published by Shutter Hub Editions, this beautiful collection of 100 images by Jo Stapleton is an expressionist photographic account of her interactions with trees, forest and woodland, later remembered and...

Limited Edition print by Gerhard Wichler It’s been a distinctly textured start to the year at THE GAZE, where invigorating artistic narratives emerge across forms and disciplines, threading their way through an unsettled climate. I’m delighted to share the completion and publication of a candid, close‑range interview with abstract artist Gerhard Wichler—an exchange that brought a refreshing clarity amid the mayhem of today’s world. You can read our fascinating interview here. We also mark an...

The Undercurrent Surfaces There are moments in a country’s creative consciousness when the atmosphere tilts. For many of the designers showing at Zurich Fashion Week 2026, the seeds were sown during last year’s pre‑events. And so, after more than twelve months of preparation, this was the week their work stepped fully into the light — an undercurrent now rising into a transformative movement in modern style. As I walked into the Kongresshaus Zurich this February, the first edition of Zurich...