At the Greek Pavilion of the Venice Art Biennale, Escape Room stages a labyrinth of soft ruins, self-filming surveillance, and queer spatial logic — Andreas Angelidakis’s sharply timed response to an age of disinformation, rewritten history, and far-right populism.
No protest, no political noise. These pavilions at the 2026 Biennale di Venezia show how, through crafts, art can hold a mirror to our most pressing concerns.
Platonic Caves, probes and soviet barracks. At Venice Biennale 2026, some of the most radical art isn’t on the walls — it’s in the walls.
From a tilted brick chapel to a home on a wheelbarrow and a floating synagogue, these surreal architectures at the Venice Art Biennale reframe space, identity, and belonging.
At Venice’s Negozio Olivetti, houses grow roots, corals mimic cities, and marble melts — in Erlich’s Hybrids, the impossible feels wonderfully real.
The American artist transforms a Venetian back alley into a breathing, community-made meditation on water, tide, and urban resilience against mass tourism and climate change.
There is something quietly arresting about a sixteenth-century Venetian synagogue, perched atop a floating rock, drifting above the waters of the lagoon. This is Nabatele, a mesmerising installation by Anna Kamyshan, and an official Collateral Event of the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.
The ‘Inverse Ruin’ installation reimagines an ancient temple from the top down as a floating structure — and reframes the way we look at ruins altogether.
From a resonating ping-pong table to a chandelier composed of a thousand porcelain soldiers, the Unique Design X exhibition during Mexico City Art Week challenged conventional notions of what design can be.
Opening on 22 September in Los Angeles’ Exposition Park, the Lucas Museum by MAD Architects will connect generations through culture, from Darth Vader’s masks to works by Renoir and Degas.
Check out our guide to Miami Art Week 2025 – from Art Basel to Design Miami and beyond. Discover whimsical animal-shaped benches, introvert chairs, rotating libraries, resilient Ukrainian creatures, and more.
At the stunning Petits-Augustins chapel in Paris, artist and designer Harry Nuriev’s Objets Trouvés transforms forgotten or unneeded objects into a participatory living cycle of art, exchange, and renewal.
A fractured black rock shrine, a cosmic light show, and a Brutalist pyramidal tower glowing in the desert — here’s what we loved most at Burning Man 2025!
Luca Fortin and Atelier mock/up’s ‘Faire le vide’ is a hidden secret alcove in a quiet conversation with the surrounding forest and water.
The tiny Moonhouse will land in Mare Frigoris, showing how even impossible dreams can come true when we work together.
Commissioned by Clerkenwell Design Week, ‘A Week at the Knees’ brings a playful twist to the London festival. Indeed, this is no ordinary building.
Socket boards become skyscrapers, biscuits become furniture, and Times Square is made of rubber stamps. The ‘small MUJI’ exhibition is about serendipitous ingenuity.
Inspired by the Renaissance vision for the Ideal City, the Italian Pavilion by Mario Cucinella Architects invites visitors to experience the country’s art, architecture, science, and technology.
Salone del Mobile presents Mother, a poetic installation by acclaimed light artist Robert Wilson in dialogue with Michelangelo’s Pietà Rondanini at Castello Sforzesco.
A Spanish galleon emerging from the sands, a herd of crafted migrating elephants, and oversized urban jewellery. Check out our design guide to Miami Art Week 2024.
For the ‘Future Relics’ exhibition, Galerie Philia tasked six international designers with reinterpreting Florence’s rich cultural legacy under the rule of the Medici.
Until September 22, Lake Como Design Festival 2024 invites you to discover art and design exhibitions across the Italian city of Como and around its lake.
Nebula Shroom Grove is a forest of mushroom-like parametric architectures tackling the loneliness issue despite our hyper-connected world.
The light-filled ‘Temple of Together’ by Caroline Ghosn fused Neo-Gothic, Art Deco and traditional Lebanese weaving techniques with an inclusive message.
Check what we liked the most at Burning Man 2024. Alice in Wonderland-inspired installations and architectures responding to contemporary global issues, from Ukraine to the Middle East.
Sardonic Sicilian ceramics, illusory fibreglass design collections, beeswax cityscapes, and Nordic-Mexican furniture… Nomad Capri 2024 presented unique pieces at the intersection of architecture, collectible design and contemporary art.
Spiky cabinets, iridescent bed sculptures and pleated paper furniture. Design goes up to high altitude at Nomad St. Moritz 2024.
A ghostly football field, forgotten shadows and iridescent walls… Desert X AlUla 2024 explores the mystery of the desert, both present and silently absent.
Iridescent 3D printed sculptures and high-tech materials. At Maison & Objet, seven rising talents blend savoir-faire and digital technology.
A floating furnace under the Rialto bridge, detergent dispensers made from Murano glass, and a tribute to Bohemian masters… Check what we liked the most at Venice Glass Week 2023.
