Contrepoint: Design Meets Sculpture at Musée Bourdelle in Paris
French designer Anthony Guerrée’s Contrepoint exhibition engages in dialogue with the work of Art Deco sculptor Antoine Bourdelle.
Burning Man 2026 explored the connection between different realms
From a broken Eiffel Tower balanced between collapse and hope, to a sinking Titanic staging nightly fire spectacles, and a gothic folly built with no doctrine at all — Burning Man 2026 proved that the desert can still summon architecture with a pulse.
Homo Faber 2026: fine craftsmanship shines in Venice
Homo Faber 2026 brings together 700 handcrafted objects from artisans around the world, staged within Es Devlin’s immersive installations. At its core, the biennial showcase “explores the fundamental relationship between light, materials and the human hand.”
Walls, Shadows, Lies: Andreas Angelidakis’ Escape Room Brings the Platonic Cave to Venice
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.
Five Pavilions ‘In Minor Keys’ Where Art Meets Craft at the 2026 Biennale di Venezia
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.
Five National Pavilions Weaving Art and Architecture at Venice Biennale 2026
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.
Six surreal architectures at La Biennale di Venezia 2026
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.
Hybrids: Where Scarpa’s Architecture dialogues with Leandro Erlich
At Venice’s Negozio Olivetti, houses grow roots, corals mimic cities, and marble melts — in Erlich’s Hybrids, the impossible feels wonderfully real.
Marea by Melissa McGill: Painting the Tides of a City Under Pressure
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.
Nabatele: Anna Kamyshan creates a floating Synagogue in Venice
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.
Inverse Ruin: Gijs Van Vaerenbergh’s Impossible Temple Is Suspended in Time
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.
Unique Design X: Eclectic Design Shines in Mexico City
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.
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Arts: a spaceship to celebrate illustrated storytelling
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.
Miami Art Week 2025: twelve highlights in The Magic City
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.
Objets Trouvés: Harry Nuriev sparks creative exchange, turning unwanted belongings into art
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.
Burning Man 2025: architecture and design highlights from Black Rock City
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!
Sculpting Solitude: Faire le vide Brings Art and Architecture to a Remote Island in Quebec
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.
Moonhouse: The first house on the moon is a humble Swedish cottage
The tiny Moonhouse will land in Mare Frigoris, showing how even impossible dreams can come true when we work together.
Alex Chinneck’s ‘A Week at the Knees’ installation features a rippling facade that’s simply had enough
Commissioned by Clerkenwell Design Week, ‘A Week at the Knees’ brings a playful twist to the London festival. Indeed, this is no ordinary building.
‘small MUJI’ exhibition: Tatsuya Tanaka transforms MUJI products into tiny worlds
Socket boards become skyscrapers, biscuits become furniture, and Times Square is made of rubber stamps. The ‘small MUJI’ exhibition is about serendipitous ingenuity.
Italy Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka celebrates the country’s ‘Ideal City’
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.
Robert Wilson sculpts with light the unfinishedness of Michelangelo’s masterpiece
Salone del Mobile presents Mother, a poetic installation by acclaimed light artist Robert Wilson in dialogue with Michelangelo’s Pietà Rondanini at Castello Sforzesco.
Miami Art Week 2024: twelve must-visit art and design shows
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.
The ‘Future Relics’ exhibition reimagines Renaissance artefacts for the 21st century
For the ‘Future Relics’ exhibition, Galerie Philia tasked six international designers with reinterpreting Florence’s rich cultural legacy under the rule of the Medici.
Lake Como Design Festival 2024 celebrates ‘lightness’ through design
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 by Understory Creative fostered a sense of togetherness at Burning Man 2024
Nebula Shroom Grove is a forest of mushroom-like parametric architectures tackling the loneliness issue despite our hyper-connected world.
Caroline Ghosn created the ‘Temple of Together’ at Burning Man 2024
The light-filled ‘Temple of Together’ by Caroline Ghosn fused Neo-Gothic, Art Deco and traditional Lebanese weaving techniques with an inclusive message.
Burning Man 2024 followed Alice down the rabbit hole and beyond
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.
Nomad Capri 2024 blurs art and design with a view of the Mediterranean Sea
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.
Nomad St. Moritz 2024: design serendipity in the Swiss Alps
Spiky cabinets, iridescent bed sculptures and pleated paper furniture. Design goes up to high altitude at Nomad St. Moritz 2024.