Katy Donoghue
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Why Hans Op de Beeck’s New Brussels Exhibition Is One to Watch This Fall
This fall, Hans Op de Beeck returns to Brussels with an exhibition that seems to ask for something increasingly difficult to find: time. Opening September 10 at Almine Rech Brussels, “Vanishing Point” brings together new sculptures and an animated film in the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery—and his first solo presentation in Brussels in more than 15 years.
A Rarely Open Madrid Garden Welcomes Thomas Houseago’s Sculptures
This summer, a hidden garden in the heart of Madrid becomes the setting for an encounter with some of most imposing and psychologically charged sculptures by Thomas Houseago. For “Thomas Houseago. Sculptures. Banca March Garden,” the British artist’s first exhibition in Spain, seven monumental works are installed across the 1,600-square-meter garden of Banca March’s headquarters on Calle Castelló, a verdant and rarely accessible space in the Salamanca district.
The Paris Hotel to Know This Fall Is a Love Letter to Proust
There is perhaps no better season to return to Paris than the moment the city begins to change. Late-summer afternoons give way to September’s first cool evenings, the fashion world arrives, galleries and museums unveil their fall programs, and Paris resumes its particular rhythm of exhibitions, dinners, openings, and long walks between them all. For travelers looking for an address that feels inseparable from the city itself, Maison Proust offers something more transporting than a place to stay.
Inside Amalia Pica’s Interactive New Installation at The Bass
When Amalia Pica’s “Lecturas Posibles” opens at The Bass on September 17, it will invite visitors to do something museums do not always encourage: leave their mark. The Argentine-born artist’s new immersive installation will transform The Rotunda, the museum’s recently activated satellite gallery in Collins Park, into an almost two-dimensional library where walls, furniture, bookshelves, and familiar objects become surfaces for drawing and writing.
Cj Hendry Brings Her Immortal Flower Shop to Hong Kong
For Cj Hendry, flowers have always offered fertile ground for reimagining the familiar. Now, after creating viral flower markets and immersive installations around the world, the artist is giving her floral universe a permanent home in Hong Kong. Located at G/F, 15 Aberdeen Street in Central, near PMQ, Hendry’s new Flower Shop is a three-level flagship devoted to flowers that, quite literally, never wilt.
What Makes Alex Prager’s Los Angeles Feel So Familiar?
For more than two decades, Alex Prager has constructed a world somewhere between photography, cinema, theater, and dream. Born and raised in Los Angeles, the artist is known for elaborately staged photographs and films in which seemingly ordinary moments become charged with psychological tension.
The Quiet Power of Beginning Again in Guimi You’s New Paintings
With its final days approaching, Guimi You’s “When the Sun Shines Again” offers a timely invitation to slow down and look closely. On view at Lehmann Maupin in New York, the exhibition brings together new paintings centered on an elemental but profound idea: what it means to begin again. Guimi You artist portrait, February 2026, photo by Guimi You Studio, courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Seoul, and London.
How Flora Yukhnovich Turned Pregnancy into Her Most Personal Exhibition Yet
For her latest exhibition, “Egg,” on view at Victoria Miro Venice, Flora Yukhnovich approaches painting as a way of working through experience in real time. Conceived during the early stages of pregnancy, the show draws from a wide range of creation stories—mythological, biblical, and drawn from popular culture—tracing how these narratives shape expectations around the body, often without capturing its reality.
Louis Vuitton’s Investment in The Frick Goes Beyond the Runway
For Louis Vuitton Cruise 2027, Nicolas Ghesquière returned to New York City with a collection rooted in contradiction, energy, and cultural collision. Presented inside The Frick Collection on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, the show marked the first fashion presentation ever staged across the museum’s historic first-floor galleries, transforming one of New York’s most revered cultural institutions into a cinematic runway experience.
Discover Vacheron Constantin’s New Louvre Watches Inspired by Ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, and Assyria
For more than two centuries, Vacheron Constantin has balanced technical innovation with artistic mastery, treating watchmaking not simply as precision engineering, but as a cultural art form. That philosophy continues in the maison’s newest Métiers d’Art collection, created in collaboration with Musée du Louvre, an ongoing partnership first established in 2019 around a shared commitment to preserving heritage, craftsmanship, and artistic knowledge. Courtesy of Vacheron Constantin.
Christelle Capdupuy on Regeneration 2030, Craft, and the Future of Louis Vuitton
For Louis Vuitton, sustainability is no longer simply about minimizing impact; it’s about actively contributing to restoration. Earlier this year, the House unveiled “Regeneration 2030,” a new environmental roadmap that expands upon its previous sustainability commitments by focusing on climate, biodiversity, water stewardship, and circular creativity across every part of the business.
Koen Vanmechelen’s “We Thought We Were Alone” Examines Humanity and Nature
For Koen Vanmechelen, Venice has never simply been a destination—it has long functioned as a place of return, reflection, and reinvention. Opened during the 61st Venice Biennale, his exhibition “We Thought We Were Alone” transforms the historic Palazzo Rota Ivancich into an immersive environment where sculpture, ecology, science, and philosophy collide.
Yuriko Takagi and the Poetry of Movement
Born in Tokyo in 1951, Yuriko Takagi is one of the most influential Japanese photographers of her generation, renowned for images that dissolve the boundaries between fashion, movement, and lived experience. Trained in visual communication at Musashino Art University and later in fashion design at Trent Polytechnic in Nottingham, Takagi began her career working as a designer in Europe before turning more fully to photography in the 1980s.
5 Reasons CAN Art Fair Ibiza Is the Art Event of the Mediterranean Summer
As the centerpiece of Ibiza Art Week, CAN Art Fair Ibiza has built a reputation for doing things differently. Now celebrating its fifth edition, the fair continues to prove that contemporary art doesn’t need to exist solely inside convention centers or white-walled galleries. Instead, CAN embraces Ibiza’s unique rhythm, extending across beaches, historic landmarks, museums, and public squares while bringing together more than 30 international galleries alongside local artists and institutions.
Why Dior’s New Paris Exhibition Is a Must-See for Fashion Lovers
In Paris, fashion history is once again being rewritten inside the walls where it first unfolded. Beginning June 10, La Galerie Dior introduces an entirely new exhibition that retraces the creative evolution of one of fashion’s most influential maisons, offering visitors an immersive journey from the vision of Christian Dior to the contemporary perspective of Jonathan Anderson. Installation view of La Galerie Dior, photo by © ADRIEN DIRAND.
Craft is Having Its Moment, But Can It Compete with a Viral Runway?
A wall of water crashing through a makeshift beach at the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris. A fog machine swallowing Saint Laurent models whole at Men’s Fashion Week. Jonathan Anderson‘s guests picking their way through half-renovated Belle Époque salons, scaffolding, and priceless furniture coexisting in the same room. Men’s Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2027 did not lack for atmosphere. The question is whether it had too much of it.
Isha Ambani Brings India’s Cultural Momentum to the Upcoming Serpentine Summer Party
On June 23, London’s cultural world will once again gather beneath the summer skies of Kensington Gardens as the Serpentine Summer Party returns for one of the most anticipated evenings on the international arts calendar.
Mila Dalal Shares Her Top 11 Picks From Art Basel 2026
This week, Basel is the center of the art world, and you feel it the moment you walk in. The 2026 edition of Art Basel brings together close to 290 galleries under one roof, and the density is what gets me every year. Works of museum quality sit a few steps from artists most people haven’t heard of yet, and somehow it all holds together. It is the one fair where you can see a major historical piece, a blue-chip painting, and a young voice making their first real noise, all in the same afternoon.
At Art Basel, Pucci’s Camille Miceli Trades Fashion for Art, Reviving Yves Laloy
It is increasingly common to find fashion houses at the world’s art fairs; it is rarer to find a fashion artistic director there as a curator. At this year’s Art Basel in Basel, Camille Miceli, the artistic director of Pucci, has done exactly that, assembling a focused solo presentation of paintings by Yves Laloy (1920–1999) at the stand of Paris’s Galerie 1900-2000.
Art Basel Honors Paula Cooper Gallery with a Historic First-Ever Legacy Award
For nearly six decades, Paula Cooper Gallery has stood as one of the most influential forces in contemporary art. This week in Basel, that enduring contribution received a new form of recognition as Art Basel announced the New York gallery as the inaugural recipient of its Gallery Legacy Award, a distinction created to honor galleries whose commitment to artists extends far beyond exhibitions and sales.
Why ZEGNA’s Latest Art Basel Fellowship Is Investing in the Future of the Philippines
For more than a decade, VISIBLE has championed a different vision of contemporary art—one that measures impact not by visibility alone, but by its ability to engage with the realities of everyday life. This year, during Art Basel in Basel, ZEGNA and VISIBLE announced the recipient of the 2026 VISIBLE Situated Fellowship: GOODLand, a community-based artistic and environmental platform founded by artist Martha Atienza on Bantayan Island in the Philippines.
Inside JR’s La Caverne du Pont Neuf, the Most Ambitious Art Installation in Paris This Summer
When Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrapped the Pont Neuf in golden fabric in 1985, they permanently altered the way artists and audiences thought about public space. More than four decades later, French artist JR returns to the same landmark with an equally ambitious gesture. Open to the public through June 28, La Caverne du Pont Neuf temporarily transforms Paris’s oldest bridge into a vast cavernous landscape, creating a new encounter between history, imagination, and contemporary technology.
10 Reasons Basel Social Club Is Basel’s Most Unpredictable Destination
Now in its fifth edition, Basel Social Club has become one of Art Basel week’s most anticipated alternative destinations—and in 2026, it arrives with its most ambitious setting yet. Taking over a vacant multi-story office building designed by Diener & Diener just minutes from Basel SBB station, the project transforms a former workplace into a sprawling social and cultural experiment.
7 Reasons Art World Insiders Never Skip Liste in Basel
As the art world descends on Basel, there is no shortage of fairs competing for attention. Yet for many curators, collectors, and artists, one stop remains essential year after year: Liste Art Fair Basel. Since its founding in 1996, Liste has built a reputation as the place where tomorrow’s leading artists are often seen before they enter major museum collections, international biennials, and blue-chip gallery rosters.
9 Ambitious Projects Defining Art Basel Unlimited 2026
As Art Basel opens its VIP preview days this week in Basel, one of the fair’s most anticipated sections once again proves why it remains a destination unto itself. Unlimited, Art Basel‘s pioneering platform for large-scale artistic production, returns with 59 ambitious projects presented by 66 international galleries, transforming the vast halls of Messe Basel into a landscape of monumental sculpture, immersive installation, film, performance, and architectural intervention.
Inside the Collection: Yuichi Kurita on Supporting Artists and Creatives
For Yuichi Kurita, collecting art is less about acquisition than it is about composition. Rooted in a background in fashion—where vintage garments and printed textiles first sparked his visual curiosity—his approach to art has evolved into something deeply personal and spatial. Rather than pursuing works for their market value or pedigree, Yuichi Kurita gravitates toward pieces that contribute to a broader environment, one shaped by instinct, mood, and a desire for balance.
At MCA Tokyo, Kenjiro Okazaki Explores Time Beyond the Present
With “而今而後 Time Unfolding Here” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Kenjiro Okazaki presents a sweeping survey of a practice that has consistently resisted disciplinary boundaries. Spanning painting, sculpture, architecture, robotics, performance, and writing, Okazaki’s work is unified by a deep inquiry into time, perception, and what he describes as zōkei—plastic arts as a force capable of reshaping how we experience the world.
Why Ceramic Artist Takuro Kuwata Never Throws Away a Finished Work
Takuro Kuwata’s practice is rooted in deep knowledge of ceramic tradition, but it resists staying still. In recent years, his work has traced a cyclical path—moving from the handheld tea bowl to monumental forms and back again—questioning repetition, scale, and what it means for an object to remain alive once its function disappears.
What Seven Generations Have Taught Arita Porcelain Lab About Craft
In the hills of Arita, where porcelain first took root in Japan more than four centuries ago, making is not preserved as history—it is practiced daily. At Arita Porcelain Lab, every piece is produced entirely in-house, guided by the rhythms of a working factory and the knowledge passed down through seven generations of the Yazaemon kiln.
6 Essential New Books on Design, Art, and Culture: The Japan Reading List
Japan continues to inspire an extraordinary range of books that explore its architecture, design, craft traditions, landscapes, and cultural identity. From definitive architectural studies to beautifully produced volumes celebrating flowers, cities, and contemporary living, this Japan Reading List of recent publications offer thoughtful entry points into a country where history and innovation remain deeply intertwined. “Katsura Imperial Villa” (Phaidon, 2025).
Keita Morimoto Creates Cinematic Urban Scenes Illuminated by the Rhythms of Contemporary Life
At once cinematic and restrained, the paintings of Keita Morimoto transform ordinary urban scenes into quietly charged psychological spaces. Born in Osaka in 1990 and now based in Tokyo, Morimoto draws from Baroque lighting, early 20th-century American Realism, and pre-modern genre painting to construct images that feel suspended between eras—familiar yet subtly dislocated.
Download Whitewall’s Japan Issue: Our Spring Issue of Art, Design, and Culture
Our spring issue has always been one of my favorites. Each year, we dedicate these pages to a specific region—an opportunity to slow down, look closely, and engage with the artists, designers, and thinkers shaping a place from within. This year, we turn our focus to Japan. It’s an incredible honor to do so alongside our guest editor, Shohei Shigematsu.
Summer Issue Cover Story: How Hikari Mori Is Reimagining Japanese Living Through a Historic Kominka
Set in Chiba Prefecture, a 150-year-old kominka once built for a village leader has become the center of a deeply personal and evolving project for Hikari Mori. Drawn to the property’s layered history and quiet presence, she began restoring the estate as both a home and what she describes as a “laboratory of living”—a space to explore how architecture, craft, and daily life can shape a more thoughtful way of being.
From Keith Haring to The Frick, Louis Vuitton Cruise 2027 Celebrates New York in Style
For Louis Vuitton Cruise 2027, Nicolas Ghesquière returned to New York City with a collection rooted in contradiction, energy, and cultural collision. Presented inside The Frick Collection on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, the show marked the first fashion presentation ever staged across the museum’s historic first-floor galleries, transforming one of New York’s most revered cultural institutions into a cinematic runway experience.
Calder in Motion: Fondation Louis Vuitton Stages a Monumental Retrospective
This week, Fondation Louis Vuitton unveils “Calder. Rêver en Équilibre,” a sweeping retrospective that repositions Alexander Calder not only as a pioneer of kinetic sculpture, but as an artist whose work continues to shape how we experience space, movement, and environment.
The Ultimate Essential Guide to New York Art Week This May
New York Art Weekreturns this May, and the art world converges on the city for a dense run of fairs, museum openings, and gallery nights stretching from the Lower East Side to the Upper East Side. Here is Whitewall‘s guide to navigating it. May 14–17, 2026 Anas Albraehe at mor charpentier at Frieze New York 2026.
Inside 26TH AND 10TH, the Show Mixing Jean Prouvé, Danh Vo, and Misha Kahn
In Chelsea, where galleries, studios, and creative offices continue to shape the rhythm of downtown culture, a new exhibition titled “26TH AND 10TH” offers a layered meditation on art, identity, and atmosphere. Presented by BILLYCLARK and Paris-based advisory _POLIMENO, the exhibition transforms a loft at 516 West 26th Street into something between a lived-in apartment, a collector’s fantasy, and a cinematic stage set.
Why the Holy See Pavilion Is the Quiet Revelation of the Venice Biennale 2026
At the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, few presentations felt as emotionally expansive and quietly transformative as the Holy See Pavilion, “The Ear is the Eye of the Soul.” Spread across two deeply atmospheric sites in Venice—one hidden within a centuries-old Carmelite garden in Cannaregio, the other inside the evolving restoration of Santa Maria Ausiliatrice in Castello—the exhibition became one of the most profound experiences of the Biennale.
One Weekend, 240 Artists: Don’t Miss Upstate Art Weekend’s Open Studios
As anticipation builds for this summer’s edition of Upstate Art Weekend, a new initiative is offering an earlier invitation into the creative communities that define the Hudson Valley and Catskills. Taking place Saturday, May 16 and Sunday, May 17 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Open Studios by UAW brings together 240 artists across the region, opening their working spaces to the public in a rare opportunity for direct engagement with artists and their practices.
The Art of Instability: A Shifting Tone within the Venice Biennale 2026
The Venice Biennale 2026 does not feel like an exhibition. It feels like a barometer. Not because artists are attempting to explain the world, but because they are revealing, almost unconsciously, the emotional atmosphere of our era. Walking through the Giardini, the Arsenale, and the countless palazzi hosting collateral exhibitions, one senses less a curatorial thesis than a collective psychological condition. Certainties have softened. Monumentality has lost its seduction.
India’s Venice Biennale Pavilion Traces Home Across Time and Distance
At the 61st Venice Biennale, the India Pavilion returns with “Geographies of Distance: remembering home,” a group exhibition curated by Amin Jaffer. Bringing together artists from across regions and generations, the presentation considers how “home” is shaped not only by place, but by memory, material, and lived experience. “The Indian Pavilion has been a truly collaborative effort.
“SeaWorld Venice” Turns the Austrian Pavilion into a Living System
At the 61st Venice Biennale, Austria’s Pavilion becomes a site of transformation with “SeaWorld Venice,” a new commission by Florentina Holzinger curated by Nora-Swantje Almes. Expanding beyond the pavilion into the city itself, the project unfolds through installation, performance, and a series of site-specific Études staged across Venice and its lagoon.
Koen Vanmechelen’s “We Thought We Were Alone” Unfolds a Vision in Venice
Set within the timeworn interiors of Palazzo Rota Ivancich, “We Thought We Were Alone” marks Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen’s first solo sculptural exhibition in Venice, presented in parallel with the 61st Venice Biennale. Spanning three floors and comprising 40 newly commissioned works, the exhibition transforms the historic palazzo into an immersive environment where art, science, and philosophy converge.
Sara Shamma on Memory, Loss, and Palmyra at the Venice Biennale
At the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Sara Shamma presents The Tower Tomb of Palmyra, a powerful new installation for the National Pavilion of Syria. Curated by Yuko Hasegawa, the exhibition marks a significant shift for the pavilion, foregrounding a single artist in a deeply personal and expansive presentation.
Download Whitewaller Venice: Your Go-to Guide of Biennale and Beyond
At the 61st edition of the Venice Biennale, curated by Koyo Kouoh, the city reveals itself through a quieter, more deliberate rhythm—one that rewards close looking and sustained attention. This year, Venice feels less like a spectacle and more like a series of unfolding encounters, shaped by artists, curators, and voices who invite us to slow down and engage more deeply.
Voice from Venice: Chahan Minassian, Designer, on Living—and Loving—Venice
Interior designer Chahan Minassian has built a practice defined by a refined sensitivity to history, craftsmanship, and the lived experience of space. Founder of Chahan Gallery, he is known for interiors that feel collected rather than composed, where each element carries a sense of narrative and intention.
Flexform Defines a New Era of Ease with Quincy and Margherì in Milan
During last week’s Salone del Mobile in Milan, Flexform introduced two distinct yet complementary collections—Quincy and Margherì—that expand the brand’s language of understated luxury through sculptural form, material nuance, and a continued commitment to comfort. Designed respectively by Antonio Citterio and Monica Armani, the collections move fluidly between interior and exterior environments, offering new ways to inhabit space with ease and intention. Quincy, courtesy of Flexform.
Poliform’s Milan Moment: New Collections Unveiled in a Historic Palazzo
During this year’s Salone del Mobile, Poliform anchored its Milan Design Week 2026 presentation with a sweeping takeover of Palazzo Clerici, transforming one of the city’s most storied Baroque landmarks into a layered, immersive expression of contemporary living.
Matthieu Blazy’s First Chanel Cruise Show Channels Biarritz’s Spirit of Freedom
Today, the Chanel Cruise 2026/27 collection was presented in Biarritz, returning to the seaside city where Gabrielle Chanel established her couture house in 1915 and first defined the codes of modern elegance.
Your Ultimate Guide to the 61st Venice Biennale Arte and Beyond
As the art world descends on Venice for the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, the city transforms into a layered landscape of exhibitions, gatherings, and chance encounters unfolding across canals, courtyards, and historic palazzi. Curated by the late Koyo Kouoh, this year’s central exhibition, “In Minor Keys,” invites a more attuned way of looking—one that favors subtlety, atmosphere, and emotional resonance over spectacle.
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