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Yayoi Kusama Retrospective Opens at Fondation Beyeler
SummaryFondation Beyeler hosts Switzerland’s first major Yayoi Kusama retrospective, showcasing over 300 worksHighlights include Infinity "Mirrored Room – Illusion Inside the Heart," "Narcissus Garden" and immersive polka‑dot tentacle installationsThe show will run until January 25, 2026The Fondation Beyeler in Basel is hosting Switzerland’s first major retrospective of Yayoi Kusama. The show presents a vast vision of the artist's prolific output, featuring approximately 300 works that span her entire career, presenting both iconic installations and previously unseen pieces that highlight her lifelong exploration of infinity, repetition and the interplay between art and life.Among the standout works is "Infinity Mirrored Room – Illusion Inside the Heart" (2025), a mirrored cube installed i...
The V&A East Museum Is Set To Open Its Doors in Spring 2026
SummaryThe V&A East Museum is set to open on April 18, 2026, in Queen Elizabeth Olympic ParkDesigned by O'Donnell + Tuomey, it features free "Why We Make" galleries and a Thomas J. Price sculpture at the entranceThe Victoria and Albert Museum has confirmed that the long‑anticipated V&A East Museum will officially open its doors on April 18, 2026, in London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Conceived as part of the East Bank cultural complex, the venue represents a legacy of the 2012 London Olympics and a major regeneration project for Stratford. The museum will span five storeys and serve as a hub for global creativity, showcasing art, design, fashion, performance and architecture in a space designed to reflect the multicultural vibrancy of East London.The building has been designed ...
Promi-Hotspot Daylesford: Hier wollen alle hin! Das Lifestyle-Imperium auf dem Land
Baronin Carole Bamford ist die ungekrönte "Queen of the Cotswolds". In ihr Dorf Daylesford eilen Tausende Tourist:innen, Royals und Stars – weil die Chefin Jahrzehnte vor dem Hype erkannte, was Entsch ...
Europäischer Lifestyle und Moral – Europa verliert an Ansehen – und wird zum gekränkten Narziss
Wer die Zeichen der Zeit nicht zu lesen versteht, geht unwissend unter. Europa muss sich neu erfinden und seine Selbstbezüglichkeit überwinden, um als freiheitliches Lebensmodell auch in Zukunft zu üb ...
Lifestyle-Teilzeit, Deregulierung, Rabattpickerl: Welches ist für Sie das Unwort des Jahres?
WIEN. Stimmen Sie ab: Welcher Ausdruck hat Ihrer Meinung nach den fragwürdigen Titel "Unwort des Jahres 2025" verdient?
Jaguar and the RCA Celebrate Emerging Talent with the Inaugural Jaguar Arts Awards
Summary:Created in partnership with the Royal College of Art, the Jaguar Arts Award champions emerging artists through the ethos ‘Copy Nothing’, inspired by Jaguar founder Sir William Lyons.Jobe Burns received the Gerry McGovern Award for ‘Intimate Conversation’, a sculptural piece exploring craftsmanship, materiality, and dialogue through salvaged materials and automotive finishes.Additional awards recognised Yvann Zahui, Emma Goring, Ali Bartlett, and Annabel MacIver for innovative works spanning photography, sculpture, and mixed media.There were five winners of the first-ever Jaguar Arts Awards this year.The award, created in partnership with the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London to champion emerging creative talent, invited Master's students in Fine and Applied Arts to complete a pr...
The House That Adam Zhu Built
arHundreds gather on a Chinatown rooftop for the opening of Alix Vernet’s EDEN at Market Gallery. Staged in a former 9-by-15-foot storage shed, the gallery, perched above the bustle below, feels like secret hidden in plain site, and even among the new class of shoebox galleries cropping up around the neighborhood, it distinguishes itself through the atmosphere it fosters. The space, housing Vernet’s crackled, spray paint delights, only fits a handful of visitors at a time, lending a more visceral intentionality to each encounter with the works. Outside, summer openings double as barbecues; in the winter, soups, a DIY favorite, simmer over the fire pit. On this night, you’ll find Adam Zhu, the man behind Market, tending the grill.Sure, New York art regulars have often seen it all when it co...
Mariko Mori Conjures Up Primordial Dreamscapes in ‘Radiance’
Meet Mariko Mori, the time traveler. From ancient cosmologies to technological futures, the Japanese artist has long used her practice as a way to bridge the gap between matter and spirit, this world and the next, revealing the unseen dimensions that bind the universe. She sees connections where others see borders, and commits herself to bringing these immaterial links into a rich, resonant reality — a pursuit she considers her “mission.”This metaphysical journey extends into her ongoing exhibition, Radiance, at New York’s Sean Kelly, running through December 20. Connecting her enduring fascination with quantum imagination and primordial faith, the showcase explores the transcendental energy of iwakura – sacred rock sites found across Japan – and like these stones, the works on view are de...
Wes Anderson is Gagosian’s Latest Collaborator
SummaryGagosian is working with Wes Anderson to recreate Joseph Cornell's artist studio for an upcoming show in ParisTitled The House on Utopia Parkway, the exhibition will feature over 300 works by the celebrated American assemblagistGagosian is teaming up with Wes Anderson and curator Jasper Sharp for an upcoming Paris show celebrating the brilliance of the late American artist, Joseph Cornell. The House on Utopia Parkway will be staged in an Andersonian recreation of his New York studio, bringing a slice of the Big Apple to the 9 rue de Castiglione storefront.Running from December 16 through March 14, the gallery will become a “meticulously staged tableau, part time capsule, part life-size shadow box,” per a statement by Gagosian. The show, titled after the artist's family home and stud...
Ayoung Kim’s Cross-Dimensional ‘Delivery Dancer’ Drama Takes Over MoMA PS1
SummaryAyoung Kim is set to open, Delivery Dancer Codex, her debut U.S. exhibition at New York's MoMA PS1The film trilogy will be shown together for the first timeIn addition to the exhibition, Kim will also premiere a live work, “Body^n,” at Performa festival from November 13 through 15South Korean artist Ayoung Kim makes her U.S. debut at MoMA PS1 with Delivery Dancer Codex, bringing together the entirety of her celebrated video installation trilogy for the first time. A pioneering voice in the new media space, Kim’s works fuse virtuality reality, game engines, AI and sculpture to create immersive speculative systems that interrogate geopolitics, myth and technology.The trilogy follows two doppelgänger couriers hurtling through the backstreets of Seoul. What begins as a routine drop-off ...
Mous Lamrabat’s “Moustalgia” Exhibition Remixes ’90s Pop Culture with North African Roots
SummaryBelgian-Moroccan photographer Mous Lamrabat is launching his new exhibition, “Moustalgia,” with WePresent on November 7The show pays homage to 1990s pop culture (like boybands and MTV) blended with aesthetics from North Africa and the Middle EastShot primarily in Senegal, the exhibit celebrates cultural hybridity and opens for public viewing in London before moving to MarseilleAcclaimed Belgian-Moroccan photographer Mous Lamrabat is set to launch his latest exhibition, “Moustalgia,” in partnership with WeTransfer's arts platform, WePresent, on November 7. This highly anticipated show pays homage to the vibrant, monolithic pop culture that reigned supreme in the 1990s, from boybands and grunge to Power Rangers and MTV.Known for his unique visual dialogue between seemingly opposite wo...
This Record-Breaking Formula E Car Embodies the Future of Racing
In a groundbreaking milestone for racing, Formula E has revealed its most advanced car: the GEN4. With an assortment of upgrades, the model is set to bring precise movement and a newly experimental edge to racetracks, making the sport more nail-biting than ever before.Prioritizing speed and efficiency, the GEN4 offers 450kW of race power paired with an active all-wheel drive and unlimited traction control to transform how drivers attack corners and maneuver. A 600kW Attack Mode, 700kW of regenerative braking, and a 55kW race energy capacity continues to boost performance, unlocking increased strategy and greater risk-taking. As for its dynamic design, two key aerodynamic configurations give teams the option to switch from a high downforce to a lower downforce for different track conditions...
