DESIGN DISPATCH A Major New Fashion Retrospective Makes a Splash at MAXXI, and Other News Plus, Collina Strada's Hillary Taymour designs Christmas trees for Edition hotels, and the National
DESIGN Atelier Jolie’s Year of Artisanry Angelina Jolie reflects on her eponymous atelier's year spent quietly making a mark in the form of...
DESIGN L’Enchanteur are Atelier Jolie’s New Makers-in-Residence The CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund-winning accessory and fine jewelry designers Soull and Dynasty Ogun...
DESIGN Anina Major Has Won the Inaugural Future Perfect Prize With the award, the Bahamian-born maker will receive a $20,000 grant along with a solo exhibition...
DESIGN Gen-Z Sets its Sights on Reinventing the Record Player With their first vinyl player, enterprising startup Kickback seeks to combine quality audio,...
SURFACE 7 A Palatial Members Club Devoted to Fine Wines and Dining Stuns in Hong Kong Plus, Kelly Wearstler’s Giobagnara collaboration, a Swedish streetwear label lands in New York,...
ARTIST STATEMENT In the Oeuvre of Terence Ntsako Maluleke, Storytelling Runs Deep With Jackson Hlungwani’s Gift II, the Johannesburg-based painter immortalizes a cherished...
SURFACE 7 Sky Ting Yoga Spreads Its Wings Plus, an elite newcomer to Milan’s members-only sphere, a penthouse stocked with artisan-made...
ARTIST STATEMENT Ron Norsworthy Imagines a “Narcissus” for Our Times In his newly opened exhibition at Edwynn Houk Gallery, the queer image maker’s poignant collaged...
ARTIST STATEMENT Franklin Williams Is (Still) In It for Himself The California-based artist and educator combines folk art, textile craft, sculpture, and...
ART Roselee Goldberg Reflects on 20 Years of Performa The founder of the art organization and biennial reflects on the liberating power of live...
CULTURE CLUB Twenty Years of Performa Reverberates Through WSA On Nov. 1, the performance art biennial founded by Roselee Goldberg celebrated its 20th anniversary
ARTIST STATEMENT Mira Mariah’s Pastel Tarot Cards Bear Witness to Girlhood Inking fashion girls and musicians in her romantic line art catapulted tattooer, poet, sculptor,...
FASHION Meet the Honorees of the 2024 CFDA Awards This year, Rachel Scott, Willy Chavarria, Raul Lopez, and Henry Zankov were honored as the American
RUNWAY REDUX At Paloma Wool, Playful Materiality and Cam-Inspired Performances Since it was founded by Paloma Lanna in 2014, fine art photography and a daring embrace of...
CULTURE CLUB Designers from Around the World Get Grounded in Nature In late September, the design world bade goodbye to summer at an exhibition and garden party hosted
STORE A Running Hub Shaped by Paris Design Week, Tokyo, and Maya Lin In addition to its glossy edit of tights, tops, and accessories informed by Fashion Month runways,...
RUNWAY REDUX From Paris, Cecilie Bahnsen Looked to Tokyo’s Night Skies At Paris Fashion Week, the Copenhagen-based designer best known for tempering the romanticism of...
CULTURE CLUB Artwalk New York Brings a Benefit to Chelsea’s Gallery Corridor On October 21, fixtures of Chelsea’s blue-chip galleries trekked just a block or so over to...
CULTURE CLUB Armani Touches Down in New York Last week, Giorgio Armani presided over a three-pronged celebration of his eponymous brand in New...
SET DESIGN How Electric Lady Studios Came Alive at Madison Square Garden Show designer Tobias Rylander speaks on channeling Electric Lady Studios, David Bowie, and the...
FASHION At New York City Ballet, Gilles Mendel Melds Couture and Costume The couturier shares how 19th-century corset-maker Mr. Pearl inspired his collaboration with...
CULTURE CLUB Mark Ronson and KAWS Hold Down Baxter St.’s Benefête On Oct. 8, the Lower East Side was alight with the energy of New York’s visual artists and...
CULTURE CLUB Kyle Abraham Kicks Off Art Gala Season On Oct. 6, luminaries from the art, dance, and fashion worlds converged on the Lighthouse at...
ART New York’s Avant-Garde Finds a Home in John Giorno’s Former Building The poet and artist’s legacy lives on in the experimental art nexus of The Bunker, a loft within...
Business A Non-Exhaustive List of LVMH’s Shakeups It’s been a bullish few weeks for the French conglomerate, whose companies have been on a roll of
ARTIST STATEMENT Tiffany Shlain’s Tree Rings Transcend Time and Medium The multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker pulls from a deep well of inspiration, spanning ancient...
ART For Alexandre Lenoir, Process and Painting Go Hand-in-Hand The French artist makes his New York City solo debut at Almine Rech, where his unconventional...
DESIGN DISPATCH Formafantasma Creates a Champagne Vineyard Installation, and Other News Plus, wHY Architects is tapped to revamp the Louvre, and Jean Dubuffet's longtime studio hits the...
CULTURE CLUB Worlds Collide at the Edges of Ailey Opening Every so often, an art world happening takes the whole of New York City’s cultural sphere by...
RUNWAY REDUX Kim Shui Proves Paris is Always a Good Idea A perennial favorite of It-Girls-about-downtown, Kim Shui gave a wink and a nod to the boys in the...
RUNWAY REDUX Off-White Touches Down in New York If you ask creative director Ibrahim “Ib” Kamara to define Off-White, the words “melting...
FASHION Willy Chavarria’s Américan Dream On the heels of a season-defining Spring/Summer 2025 runway show and his third consecutive...
DESIGN DISPATCH FKA twigs Debuts Performance Art at Sotheby’s for Eusexua, and Other News Our daily look at the world through the lens of design.
SPATIAL AWARENESS Cass Calder Smith Crafts a Jewel-Box Diamond Gallery Vrai’s recently opened Manhattan showroom evokes the inherently sculptural nature of gemstones....
FASHION For Indie Designers, What’s the ROI of Dressing It-Girls? Caroline Zimbalist, who has dressed Chappell Roan and Reneé Rapp, and Elena Velez, whose clothing...
FASHION At New York Fashion Week, a Season of Revival Designers hit—or approached—their strides as they showed collections that embodied clarity of...
CULTURE CLUB Fashion Week Kick-Off Cocktails with the Black in Fashion Council On Sept. 5, Black in Fashion Council leaders Sandrine Charles and Lindsay Peoples hosted stylists,...
CULTURE CLUB The Armory Show Kicks Off Its 30th Edition With a Bang This year’s Armory Show kickoff party was a change of pace for the 30-year-old art fair, marking...
FASHION J. Crew’s Beloved Print Catalog Makes a Comeback The purveyor of Americana prep embarks on the next stage of its post-bankruptcy return with an...
ARTIST STATEMENT Carolyn Mazloomi Quilts Cornerstone Moments The Ohio-based textile artist crafts portraits of key Civil Rights figures and changemakers in her...
CULTURE CLUB On Running Takes a Fashion-Cool Crowd Courtside in Brooklyn Ahead of the official start of the U.S. Open, Swiss athleticwear brand On Running brought the...
CULTURE Goth-Inflected Girlhood Goes Mainstream As brat summer winds to a close, girlhood and coquettishness seem poised for a goth-inflected...
URBAN PLANNING Celebrities Funnel Star Power Into Saving Elizabeth Street Garden Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, and Patti Smith have joined legions of letter-writers entreating...
CULTURE CLUB “The Crow” Stars Show Out for a Goth-Chic Premiere On August 20, Ssense, TikTok, and Lionsgate gathered the cast and crew of director Rupert...
DESIGN Under Surya, Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams Makes a Comeback After a shocking and public collapse under its previous owners last summer, the furniture industry...
TRAVEL Luca Guadagnino’s Latest Project Is a Big Screen–Worthy Palazzo After showing at Milan Design Week and completing a number of interior commissions through his...
SPATIAL AWARENESS Pophouse Makes Connections in the Motor City The Detroit-based design studio plumbs its knowledge of local heritage, merging two historic...
EXHIBITION These Thoughtful Wall Coverings Champion Latin American Heritage An outing to Mexico Design Week and the proliferation of Latin American creatives in the...
DESIGN DISPATCH Saudi Arabia Makes Moves Towards Hosting the 2034 World Cup, and Other News Our daily look at the world through the lens of design.
FASHION From Tracksmith, the Olympic Blazer That Could Have Been With all eyes on Paris, Tracksmith has teamed up with indie tailoring house Clementina to bring a...
DANCE Van Cleef & Arpels Choreographs the Future of Contemporary Dance With its Dance Reflections festival, the haute jeweler is almost single-handedly buoying the...
DESIGN DISPATCH Mathieu Lehanneur’s Olympic Torch Takes Flight, and Other News Our daily look at the world through the lens of design.
EXHIBITION Taylor Swift’s “Eras” Wardrobe Gets the Museum Treatment The European leg of Taylor Swift’s Eras tour is leaving no major city untouched, least of all...
CULTURE Behold, René Redzepi’s Cinematic Universe With the impending closure of Noma as it operates today, chef-owner René Redzepi seems to be...
FASHION With Maryam Nassir Zadeh’s Capsule, J.Crew Gets In On Brat Summer “It’s about showing skin:” Indie designer Maryam Nassirzadeh brings her label’s...
CULTURE CLUB A Lawn Party at The School Kicks Off Upstate Art Weekend On July 19, friends, family, and art enthusiasts enmeshed in the world of more than 145...
DESIGN DISPATCH Theaster Gates and Leonora Carrington Will Headline Frieze Sculpture, and Other News Our daily look at the world through the lens of design.
Design Jaipur Living Combines Artisan Handicraft With Fine Fibers The rug brand makes the case for recasting cashmere, wool, and silk from the cornerstones of a luxe
DESIGN DISPATCH Supreme Sells for $1.5 Billion, and Other News Our daily look at the world through the lens of design.
DESIGN DISPATCH A Formidable Contemporary Art Collection for JFK’s New Terminal, and Other News Our daily look at the world through the lens of design.
CULTURE CLUB BlackStar Projects Inaugurates NeueHouse’s New York Cinema On July 11, the arts nonprofit, which amplifies the work of Black, brown, and indigenous...
CULTURE Spring Studios, Herman Miller, and A24Say “Print Isn’t Dead” As publishers face economic and workplace uncertainties, brands are embracing the power of the page
CULTURE CLUB Jonathan Anderson and Loewe Toast Magdalene Odundo at Houghton Hall Last month, Loewe’s creative director Jonathan Anderson hosted a weekend getaway for friends of...
DESIGN Millennial Yassification Comes for Window Units After years of quietly building market momentum, a new generation of sleek air conditioners is...
NEW & NOTABLE What’s New This Summer, From Our List Members Liaigre’s capsule collection with the storied hotel Costes in Paris, Thomas Cooper Studio’s...
SURFACE 7 A U.K. Staple of Slow Fashion Sets Up Shop in Brooklyn Plus, Harry Nuriev aces a silvery ping-pong setup, a cave-like speakeasy in Mumbai’s chicest...
CULTURE CLUB Maserati and World Red Eye Host a Night of Tequila and Cigars with Thomas Keller On June 21, a fleet of Maseratis greeted guests at an invite-only seated dinner at Bouchon, Thomas...
EVENT RECAP New York Commemorates the Life of Jeffrey Beers More than 300 friends, family members, and associates of the late, brilliant mind behind...
CULTURE CLUB London’s A-List Convenes for the Serpentine Summer Party On June 25, musicians, star artists, cultural figures, and more notables gathered at Kensington...
CULTURE CLUB Parisian Culturati Fête High-Art Skateboards at the Hôtel de Crillon On June 17, a who’s who of the French fashion and art worlds descended upon Paris’s 8th...
RESTAURANT Two Beloved Chefs Chart a New Path for Farm-to-Table Dining One White Street’s Austin Johnson and Frenchie’s Gregory Marchand make the case for bringing...
ARTIST STATEMENT Phil Davis Questions the Origin Stories You Think You Know The artist and landscape designer’s solo show at Fernberger turns ephemeral references on their...
CULTURE CLUB Aperture and Friends Celebrate “The Design Issue” On June 12, the photography journal gathered writers, artists, and well-wishers at the Times Square
CULTURE CLUB Marco Brambilla Debuts a Times Square Utopia On June 18, film artist Marco Brambilla took over more than 95 of Times Square’s LED billboards...
FASHION On Canal Street, The Real Real Makes a Bold, “Superfake” Statement On New York City’s most notorious corridor for knockoff designer handbags, The Real Real has...
FASHION Another Olympics, Another Blue Ralph Lauren Blazer for Team USA While there’s no shortage of internet outcry around Ralph Lauren’s fifth and latest navy blazer
ART How Creator Labs Buoyed Daveed Baptiste’s Practice The 27-year-old photographer, fashion designer, and visual artist Daveed Baptiste reflects on how...
CULTURE CLUB The Glass House Rings In Its 75th Anniversary This past weekend, artists and architecture enthusiasts decamped to New Canaan, CT, to take in...
CULTURE CLUB “Don’t Touch My Hair” Opens at Hannah Traore Gallery Ever the downtowner’s destination for thought-provoking art, Hannah Traore recently celebrated...
CULTURE CLUB Mass MoCA Rings In 25 Years at Its Spring Gala On May 24, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art celebrated its 25th anniversary with a gala
CULTURE Casa Bosques, CDMX’s Cult-Favorite Art Bookstore, Comes to New York Casa Bosque’s trove of global art and architecture books, rare queer erotica, psychosexual...
ARTIST STATEMENT Catherine Haggarty Crafts a “Collaboration” Spanning Space, Time, and Life The New York City-based artist’s collection of works on paper, which will be shown along with an...
CULTURE CLUB Daniel Arsham and Yann Nury Host a Champagne Soirée Downtown On May 15, amidst the flux of New York’s art and design fairs, Daniel Arsham hosted an intimate...
CULTURE CLUB A Costume Contest Showdown at the Art Students League Gala On June 1, more than 400 practicing artists, patrons, and educators took to the Art Students League
ART Before Mapplethorpe, Hujar, and Warhol, George Platt Lynes Elevated the Male Nude to High Art 'Hidden Master,' a new documentary from writer-director Sam Shahid, gathers art-world luminaries...
FAIRS CK Reed on People Watching at Design Miami.LA The L.A.-based artist and designer sat down with Surface to reflect on the highlights of the West...
CULTURE CLUB New York’s Power Players Come Out for the Whitney Gala On May 15, the Whitney Museum of American Art celebrated the defining forces of its future-facing...
SPA Hotel Plaza Athénée Gives Dior Spa the Proper Palace Treatment The recently-revamped spa makes Rue Montaigne a veritable fashion and wellness destination.
CULTURE CLUB The Broad Toasts a First for Mickalene Thomas On May 23, the Broad Museum helped Mickalene Thomas ring in a career first with the opening...
ARCHITECTURE The Grand Palais Restoration Races Toward the Olympics There’s no shortage of sensationalized projects nearing their do-or-die completion date as the...
CULTURE CLUB The Past, Present, and Future of Experimental Art Collide at the Kitchen Gala On May 22 the Kitchen took to midtown to honor Lynn Hershman Leeson, Bernard I. Lumpkin, Carmine D.
ARTIST STATEMENT With ‘Showtime,’ Lizzi Bougatsos Sets an “Absurdist Stage” The visual artist and experimental musician opens up about an assemblage made from stained vintage...
CULTURE CLUB Public Art Fund Brings the Art to Its Spring Party On May 15, a crowd of 350 turned out to raise more than $1 million for Public Art Fund’s annual...
OPENING SHOT Marcel Ravin Serves Up Caribbean “Fruits de Mer” on the Côte d’Azur Ravin’s Blue Bay Monte Carlo pays homage to the chef’s Martinique roots and global travels in...
FASHION Citing Fashion’s Impossible Demands, Mara Hoffman Shutters Her Label In an open letter published to her brand’s Instagram account, the defining name of sustainable...
CULTURE CLUB Mercedes-Benz Toasts Miami’s F1 Grand Prix—and Its First North American Residences On May 1, Mercedes-Benz teamed up with The Concours Club to toast Mercedes-Benz Places, a 67-story...
ARTIST STATEMENT Anastasia Komar Prods at Science’s “God Complex” Question Cutting-edge biotech, the Garden of Eden, and profound meditations on the future of civilization...
CURRENTLY COVETING A Personal Gymnasium Fit for the Most Ardent Design Enthusiasts In a match made in the leisurely idyll of Comporta, Portugal, Ethimo and architecture firm Studio...
CULTURE CLUB At Its Annual Spring Benefit, Print Center New York Honors Pat Steir On May 14, artists, collectors, and supporters of one of Manhattan’s defining institutions...
NEED TO KNOW Zaha Hadid Architects and The Dalmore Transform Scotch Whisky Into High Art Firm director Melodie Leung details a years-long collaboration with the distiller, which has...
CULTURE CLUB The Ali Forney Center Gala Raises $2.5 Million for LGBTQ Youth On May 4, the Ali Forney Center’s spring gala, among the nearest and dearest to New York’s...
FASHION The Challengers Ripple Effect Hits the Fashion World Between Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s clubby earworm of a score, the dirtbag-prepster dichotomy
CULTURE CLUB New York’s Culturati Partied for Amref with Kehinde Wiley On May 4, Amref Health Africa’s annual ArtBall drew luminaries of the culture and entertainment...
OPENING SHOT Fabrizio Casiraghi Brings Moody Opulence to Paris’s Left Bank Tucked between Montparnasse and Saint-Germain, Hôtel des Grands Voyageurs harkens to the days of...
ARTIST STATEMENT Parme Marin Catalogs the Dualities of Artistry and Motherhood Marin merges a decade-long fashion career with expertise in ceramics and paintings in an incisive...
CULTURE CLUB Carlos Martiel’s El Museo Del Barrio Preview was Frieze Week’s Most Under-the-Radar Scene On May 1, Museum Mile happened to host a veritable it-crowd of artists, models, and fashion...
ART Beyond Borders, Paris Rings In 150 Years of Impressionism Musée D’Orsay’s landmark exhibition, “Paris 1874: Inventing Impressionism,” opened to...
SPATIAL AWARENESS Open Sky Zion Cultivates a Wildland Vision of Solitude Deep in the backcountry surrounding Zion National Park, Open Sky Zion has created a one-of-a-kind...
ARTIST STATEMENT Jérôme Lagarrigue Walks the Line Between the Tangible and Intangible In his first solo exhibition with Fridman Gallery—and on the heels of his feature in the Brooklyn
EVENT RECAP More Than 2,000 Gather in Berlin to Toast 75 iF Design Award Winners For its 70th awards show, iF took over the stage of Berlin’s Friedrichstadt-Palast to celebrate...
ARTIST STATEMENT Beneath ‘Colors of Gray,’ a Toxic Undercurrent Even on first glance, Thu-Van Tran’s ‘Colors of Grey’ is rife with a sense of loss. Its...
ARTIST STATEMENT Cindy Phenix Casts Shadows of the Unseen Into the Light The Canadian painter unleashes a “strange vortex” of apocalyptic tableaux in vivid hues,...
CULTURE CLUB A Who’s Who of the Photo World Brushed Elbows at AIPAD’s Photography Show Last week, the Photography Show made a triumphant return to the Park Avenue Armory, where the fair...
EXHIBITION SCAD Student Photographers Turn Their Lenses on “Power in Perspective” Realized in partnership with Leica, the group exhibition reflects on expectations of feminine...
ART Photography Show Director Lydia Melamed Johnson’s Artists to Watch As AIPAD’s Photography Show returns to New York City's Park Avenue Armory in full force, Melamed...
CULTURE CLUB The Aldrich Throws a 60th Anniversary Gala Last week, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, one of the country’s oldest institutions devoted...
SPATIAL AWARENESS A Season of Rebirth Heralds a New Chapter for Piaule Catskill Following its 2021 opening, the property quickly became a cult destination for style-savvy New...
CULTURE CLUB Volker Haug Toasts a Collaboration With Flack Studio at Milan Design Week On April 17, the Australian lighting design studio debuted a new line designed with fellow...
FASHION Dior Cozies Up to New York City It’s something of a rite of passage for upstart, New York–based fashion labels to start showing
CULTURE CLUB SculptureCenter Honors Thaddeus Mosley At Its Annual Gala On April 11, the Long Island City-based destination for sculpture drew New Yorkers from the other...
FAIRS For 2024, Salone del Mobile Charts a Thrilling New Path For proof, look no further than an all-star lineup of installations, talks, exhibitions...
SPATIAL AWARENESS A Fashion Alumna Creates an Art- and Antique-Driven Madrid Boutique At Salon 27, shoppers can discover seasonal collections from independent designers alongside...
ART Taja Cheek Shakes the Walls of the Whitney The experimental musician and guest curator behind the Whitney Biennial’s performance art brings...
CULTURE CLUB Artists Descend on Epiphany Center for the Arts for RenBen Gala We’re in the midst of gala season, which touches the worlds of art, culture, and philanthropy...
CULTURE CLUB ICP’s Infinity Awards Celebrate Five Boundary-Breaking Women Artists Last week, the International Center of Photography hosted its landmark commemoration of enduring...
CURRENTLY COVETING How Many Designers Does it Take to Engineer a Comfortable Armchair? Vitra’s new Mikado chair is the answer to a deceptively complicated brief.
IN MEMORIAM The Life and Legacy of Faith Ringgold The late artist, children’s book author, and Civil Rights activist shaped the art world as we...
HOTEL In Sydney, a Swath of Suites Dare Guests to Expect the Unexpected No two suites at The Darling are the same—and local designer Fender Katsalidis packed them full...
CULTURE CLUB Dynamic Duos Take the Spotlight at the BadAss Art Woman Awards Last week, Project for Empty Space took to the Angel Orensanz Foundation for its annual celebration
RESTAURANT Villa Skärtofta Offers High Art and Haute Cuisine The fanciful villa hotel Vår Gård’s new fine dining restaurant combines Italian influences with
RESTAURANT In Istanbul, a New Restaurant Rounds Out a Michelin-Caliber Dining Scene Located at the heart of a destination villa, Arkestra brings together velvety interiors with a...
ART Project for Empty Space Reintroduces Itself to New York The talent incubator has opened the doors to PES Futures, a Chinatown exhibition space inaugurated...
CULTURE CLUB At the New Museum Gala, A Master Class in Public Speaking On April 3, Cipriani South Street hosted the museum’s annual benefit, where a star-studded list...
CULTURE CLUB The Guggenheim’s Young Collectors Council Boogies Down Uptown Earlier this week, artists, curators, and young collectors convened to fête filmmaker and LG...
HOTEL Résidence Bouchardon Is Steeped in Seventies Eclecticism Bernard Dubois leans into retro-cool elements over Beaux-Arts grandiosity for a transportive new...
NEED TO KNOW Upstart Design Studio Heirloom Cuts Through The Noise A team of global design leaders have opened the doors to the interdisciplinary studio of their...
CULTURE CLUB Shannon Maldonado and Surface Bring a Taste of Yowie to New York Following its February debut, Surface’s art and culture dinner series ushered the creative energy
STORE Cúpla London Fashions a High Street Shop for Rixo The womenswear label’s new Marylebone shop is awash in vivid hand-painted prints that complement...
ART Nicolas Party’s Latest Works Are For Sale at a Bookstore Near You The Swiss artist ardently believes in the power of poetry: he recently created two new pastel...
ART “Mode Et Sport” Treads New Ground in Fashion and Art History As the Paris 2024 Olympics near, a pivotal show at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs about...
CULTURE CLUB Gohar World Greets Spring With a Champagne-Soaked Spring Fling Last week, Laila and Nadia Gohar’s art-inflected tableware line brought a few dozen of their...
RESTAURANT A Long-Awaited Hidden South American Gem Glistens in Singapore Araya brings together the beauty of Chile’s landscapes with a mélange of flavors from cuisine...
RESTAURANT At Rockefeller Center, Smith & Mills Proves Lightning Can Strike Twice The Tribeca culinary fixture’s next chapter heads uptown in a much more spacious footprint that...
CULTURE CLUB Saks and Art Production Fund Raise $850,000 for Public Art Is it possible to go “overboard” on fundraising? On March 14, the public art nonprofit teamed...
HOTEL In London, a “Grand” Boutique Hotel Imbued With Coziness The Grand Bellevue Hotel is a vision of warmth, styled after what Fabrizio Casiraghi imagines as...
STORE Vincent Van Duysen Nods to Salvatore at Ferragamo’s Milan Boutique Striking slabs of red marble—the late founder’s favorite color—and other bursts of color...
CULTURE CLUB Art World Luminaries Gathered Uptown for the Bronx Museum Gala As a leader in both galvanizing its community of ardent supporters and staging exhibitions of our...
RESTAURANT In Montreal’s Old Port, a Transportive Experience Awaits at Hayat Ivy Studios channeled the beauty of the Syrian desert for the color-rich interiors of chef Joseph...
ART Belkis Ayón’s Prolific Legacy Is Not for Sale In Ayón’s first posthumous gallery exhibition at Miami’s David Castillo Gallery, the dealer...
CULTURE CLUB Free Arts NYC Benefit Gala Honors Christopher Wool On March 7, the New York City nonprofit hosted its annual benefit in support of arts education and...
ART For Proof of the Power of Collaboration, Look No Further than Joan Jonas It’s not just you—the 87-year-old visual artist is having a major moment in New York and...
CULTURE CLUB Kikuo Saito Inaugurates James Fuentes Tribeca The latest in a rush of thrilling new arrivals to Tribeca’s gallery scene is marked by the debut...
RESTAURANT Echoes of Past Lives Reverberate in This Light-Filled Brasserie Studio Modijefsky’s clever interiors for Dordrecht eatery De Witt pay respect to its bygone days...
NEW & NOTABLE What’s New This Spring, From Our List Members Studio Plow debuts Casa de Arte, Matthew Fisher launches a new collection at Remains, and more from
RESTAURANT A Madrid Gem Store, Reborn As an Artisan Bakeshop Plantea Estudio fashions Acid Shop into a sanctuary of a coffee shop with deep connections to its...
EVENT RECAP Art For Change and Phillips Take on Climate Change at L.A. Art Week Coinciding with Frieze, Art For Change and Phillips Auction House toasted a climate-centric...
FASHION Fashion’s Newly-Minted Creative Directors are Making Moves The Fall/Winter 2024 season was major for the heavy hitters of the Europe shows, where new creative
RESTAURANT A Jewel-Box Omakase Spot Sets Up Shop in the East Village With burled oak walls, a dazzling jade quartzite bar, and a hand-painted mural of bird feathers,...
ARTIST STATEMENT Michael Dayton Hermann Embraces New Beginnings In his latest show, the photographic artist and self-proclaimed “eternal optimist” offers up...
CULTURE CLUB Fernando Mastrangelo Kicks Off Surface’s New Dinner Party Series On Feb. 29, friends of Surface gathered for a downtown dinner party hosted by designer Fernando...
NEED TO KNOW Hannah Gottlieb-Graham Is in Good Company In just four years, the Alma Communications founder and Surface alumna has founded a female-founded
CULTURE CLUB Sanford Biggers Takes Over the Hammer Museum During L.A. Art Week On Mar. 1, the Harlem-based L.A.-born artist partnered with Jenni Benzaquen of Marriott’s Luxury...
CULTURE CLUB A Sparkling Gala Commemorates 90 Years of the School of American Ballet On Feb. 26, New York’s society set turned out at Lincoln Center to support the New York City...
RESTAURANT In Toronto, Daphne Takes Diners Down the Rabbit Hole Studio Paolo Ferrari dreams up a welcome entry to the city’s burgeoning bistro scene with a...
ARTIST STATEMENT Cole Sternberg Reimagines the California Dream The California painter reinterprets the mythos of his state’s civic and cultural iconography,...
DESIGN Behind the Scenes in Detroit’s New Art Micro-Neighborhood The founders of Detroit’s Library Street Collective have devoted a section of the city’s East...
RESTAURANT Futurism and Flavor Await at Ichi Station Milan An abundance of illuminated peach-toned glass accents courtesy of Masquespacio transports visitors...
NEED TO KNOW F05 Studio’s Overnight Success Was Years in the Making The award-winning architecture and design studio is approaching its fourth anniversary, but past...
RESTAURANT In London, Meat the Fish Distorts All Sense of Time and Place Teeming with nods to the outdoors, the Beirut-based destination for Mediterranean fare enters...
CULTURE CLUB Southern Guild Makes a Splashy Entrance in Los Angeles For the past 16 years, the gallery and artist residency Southern Guild has been South Africa-based.
ARTIST STATEMENT Barbara Earl Thomas Cultivates Divine Mystery Some might see the Venetian Gothic architecture of the University of Pennsylvania’s Arthur Ross...
EXHIBITION Art For Change Stages a Pop-Up Show at Grand Army Plaza As the 136 year-old Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Arch undergoes a much-needed renovation,...
FASHION What If We All Saw Midtown Through Fernando Garcia’s Eyes? The Monse and Oscar de la Renta co-creative director speaks on Monse’s return to the runway at...
CULTURE A Thrilling Season of Art and World Premieres at New York City Ballet The winter season is traditionally something of an incubator for innovation and ingenuity at the...
RUNWAY REDUX Legacy, House Codes, and Ukrainian Heritage Permeate Bevza’s Sumptuous Knits and Tailoring Eighteen years in, Svitlana Bevza is as dedicated as ever to getting to the heart of her eponymous...
DANCE Kyle Abraham Shares an Exclusive First Look at A.I.M’s Newest Commission This weekend, Kyle Abraham’s dance company A.I.M will debut Year, from decorated choreographer...
RUNWAY REDUX Hillary Taymour’s Vision of a Femme Flex Rings Clear at Collina Strada Collina Strada has a well-earned reputation for stealing hearts and headlines during New York...
FASHION Grace Ling Wins the CFDA/Genesis House Design Innovation Grant The CFDA and Genesis kicked off fashion week with a party to celebrate the collections of Grace...
CULTURE CLUB Hannah Traore Toasts Chella Man With Big Downtown-Cool Vibes On Feb. 8, Hannah Traore and Chella Man celebrated the landmark achievement of Man’s first solo...
EVENT RECAP Juilliard’s Annual Scholarship Benefit Raises $1.7 Million The Juilliard School’s winter scholarship benefit kicked off with a student showcase concert...
RUNWAY REDUX Marina Moscone Zeroes In on Refined Simplicity For F/W 2024, the New York City designer offers a study in pared-back simplicity with body-skimming
RESTAURANT In Fort Greene, Old European Influences Coalesce at Theodora A sun-drenched bar, chef-owner Tomer Blechman’s fresh Mediterranean flavors, and a tasteful mix...
CULTURE CLUB Ten to One Convenes a Salon at the Georgia Room On Feb. 5, Ten to One Rum founder and CEO Marc Farrell convened friends from the arts, fashion,...
ART The Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys’ Art Comes to Brooklyn Over the past five years, Kasseem Dean (better known as Swizz Beatz) and Alicia Keys have assembled
FILM Dazzling Public Bathrooms Star in Wim Wenders’ Latest Film The art-house filmmaker has turned his lens on an unlikely muse: Tokyo’s public toilets.
CULTURE CLUB The Marley Family Celebrates Bob Marley’s Biopic in L.A. On Feb. 5, Marley family convened for a dinner with friends to celebrate the release of “Bob...
URBAN PLANNING Urban Planning Our Way Out of the Car Culture Hellscape In an exclusive excerpt of “Renewing the Dream: The Mobility Revolution and the Future of Los...
CULTURE CLUB Well-Wishers Toast “How to Collect Art” in Miami’s Design District On Feb. 1, polymath and art market economist Magnus Resch celebrated the publication of his new...
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BAR An Art-Filled Café and Bar Arrive at the National Portrait Gallery The London museum’s East Wing reopens after a three-year restoration with two lavish spots by Run
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ART Finding “The Flesh of the Earth” at the Edge of Manhattan In a new group exhibition at Hauser & Wirth, breakout curator Enuma Okoro makes sense of...
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DESIGN Porsche and Cervélo Chart the Next Frontier in E-Bikes The sportscar legend and the 2022 Tour de France–winning bike maker teamed up to create a tour de
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ART Revisiting David Seidner’s Life in Haunting Photos The International Photography Center's new survey of the work of boundary-breaking writer and...
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CULTURE CLUB Créateurs Design Awards Gathers Creatives in Paris On Jan. 20, some of the world’s most celebrated designers and architects gathered in Paris to be...
RESTAURANT At Palmilla Cocina, Topographic Influences Abound In sandstone-hued interiors drawing from the California Coast, the seaside cocina serves up...
CULTURE CLUB A Star-Studded Crowd Turns Out for Winter Show On Jan. 18, amid New York City’s recent, bitter cold snap, a group of distinguished names in the...
SPATIAL AWARENESS Studio PCH Refashions a Grande Dame of Bermuda’s Resort Scene Ahead of Ariel Sands’ 2025 opening, founder and principal Severine Tatangelo gives ‘Surface’...
CULTURE CLUB Jupiter Magazine Launches with Dinner and Dancing in Brooklyn Publishing behemoths may be at a tipping point, but last week, Jupiter, a new independent arts and...
DESIGN Enviable Glassware Steals the Show at Guild Bar Located inside Roman and Willams' shoppable restaurant-showroom La Mercerie, Guild Bar's...
ARCHITECTURE With Ray, Dasha Zhukova Sets Her Sights on Philadelphia The New York City art world power player speaks on her decision to launch her art and real-estate...
CULTURE CLUB A Lively Opening Night at Jack Shainman’s Downtown Gallery On Jan. 12, gallerist Jack Shainman hosted well-wishers at the opening celebration for his newest...
ARCHITECTURE A Gilded Age Palazzo is Reborn a Monumental Art Gallery Jack Shainman’s latest gallery, The Hall, opens its doors in a corner of Tribeca’s Clock Tower...
FASHION The Appeal of Destroying Fashion On Camera The rise of creators like Tanner Leatherstein, who uses his tannery and leather goods expertise to...
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ARCHITECTURE Can Paris 2024’s Green Ambitions Stick the Landing? A recent look at the infrastructure revamps planned around the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games begs
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CULTURE CLUB Visionary Projects Gathers Artists and Friends for Dinner and a Show On Dec. 13, the art collective celebrated the opening of its newest exhibition, aptly titled “The
DECORATIVE Is the Supply/Demand Curve Coming for Christmas Trees? It seems like with every passing year, niche trade groups catastrophize the growing demand for...
CULTURE Dystopian Capitalism Underpins the So-Called “Year of the Girl” Behind the cutesy moniker that 30-somethings masquerading as “girlies” have clung to this year,
CULTURE CLUB Alex Israel and the Cultivist Bring Four Nights of Festivities to Miami During Miami Art Week, the Angeleno artist teamed up with Capital One and the global club for art...
NEW & NOTABLE What’s New This Winter, From Our List Members Italian Design Brands’ New York City flagship, Original BTC’s ode to the plum blossom, and more
CULTURE CLUB Tina Frey’s Eclectic World Comes Alive in Miami On Dec. 5, the San Francisco–based designer teamed up with local design agency Studio Santos on...
CURRENTLY COVETING This Shape-Shifting Taburet Celebrates “Freewheeling” Creativity Cecilie Manz spent the past two years collaborating with Fritz Hansen’s skilled artisans to bring
CULTURE CLUB MoMA PS1 and Eartheater Bring Queens Spirit to Miami On Dec. 5, the forward-thinking Queens museum teamed up with athletic footwear brand On to kick off
CULTURE CLUB Serpentine Brunches for a Cause at Miami’s Casa Tua On Dec. 5, the London megawatt gallery commemorated the upcoming 10th anniversary of its Serpentine
CULTURE CLUB Gagosian Toasts Miami Art Week, Positano-Style On Dec. 5, the gallery teamed up with Franco’s Bar and Le Sireneuse, the Amalfi Coast staples of
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CULTURE CLUB Venus Williams and Pace Bring the Glitz to Miami’s Mainland There’s almost unrivaled focus on Miami Beach this week, but on Dec. 6, the tennis legend and...
CURRENTLY COVETING “Honest” Design Permeates This Finnish Furniture Studio Vaarnii is increasing its international footprint and putting down roots in New York at Suite NY,...
CULTURE CLUB White Cube Kicks Off Art Basel With Big VIP Energy On Dec. 5, White Cube gallery toasted the beginning of Art Basel Miami Beach with a who’s who of...
ART At Art Basel, Sallisa Rosa Probes Memory Through Materiality The rising Brazilian artist creates a fictional landscape instilled with generational knowledge and
CULTURE CLUB Worthless Studios Brings the Gala Circuit to East Williamsburg On Dec. 4, the Brooklyn-based artist empowerment organization celebrated its annual Goodtimes Gala...
CULTURE CLUB Woods Bagot Celebrates 15 Years of Architectural Excellence On Nov. 30, Woods Bagot celebrated its 15th anniversary with a swaggering cocktail party inside one
CULTURE CLUB After Hours at the World Trade Center With Silver Art Gala On Nov. 28, the New York-based artist residency Silver Art Projects hosted its inaugural gala. The...
CURRENTLY COVETING Caran D’Ache’s Latest Launch Champions the Creative Class The Swiss leader in premium writing and drawing tools breaks down the barriers to learning about...
EXHIBITION This Spring, AIPAD’s Photography Show Returns in Full Force In an exclusive interview, executive director Lydia Melamed Johnson speaks on the fair’s highly...
CULTURE CLUB Christofle Gives Zine Culture a Seat at a Fabulous Table On Nov. 14, the French tableware stalwart took the plunge into zine culture in impeccable style and
CULTURE CLUB Yohji Yamamoto Makes a Splash in SoHo On Nov. 15, SoHo’s glitziest row of fashion and furniture shops added another to their ranks with
FILM Without Makeup Prosthetist Kazu Hiro, There Is No “Maestro” At the SCAD Savannah Film Festival, Hiro and producer Kristie Macosko Krieger pulled back the...
ART These Artist-Made Digital Monuments Center Black History and Culture Leveraging the same augmented reality technology that powers Pokémon Go, the Kinfolk Foundation is
DESIGN At Bard, a Design Gallery in Leith, Scottish Artisanry Lives On On its first anniversary, the bastion of Scottish design ingenuity stages a group exhibition...
CURRENTLY COVETING Balletic Influences Permeate These Sculptural Stone Objects Virtuosic designer Matthew Fisher speaks on his latest collection of stone furniture and vessels,...
DESIGN Ulla Johnson and Kelly Wearstler Capture California Magic For Johnson’s newly opened Los Angeles boutique, the two collaborators spoke with ‘Surface’...
FILM The Deeper Meaning of Priscilla’s Candy-Colored Scenography Sofia Coppola’s latest film, an adaptation of Priscilla Presley’s memoir, lives up to the...
SPATIAL AWARENESS A Sun-Drenched Watering Hole Glimmers on Joshua Tree’s Outskirts Sibling-duo Brit Epperson and Barrett Karber breathed new life into a 1952-era Joshua Tree...
ARTIST STATEMENT Stan Squirewell’s “Remixed” 19th– and 20th–Century Portraits As a self-described child of the hip hop era, the collage artist re-fashions historical photography
CULTURE CLUB The Art Students League Gala Takes Over MoMA’s Halls Earlier this past week, New York City’s preeminent arts education organization rallied its...
CULTURE CLUB Tiffany Shlain Convenes a Feminist Art Dinner Party in D.C. This week, to mark the opening of her exhibition “A Feminist History Tree Ring” on Washington...
ART What’s the State of Italian Painting Today? An expansive new exhibition at Triennale Milano takes stock of how today’s generation of Italian...
CULTURE CLUB Art and Design Collide at The Glen Grant’s Devotion Unveiling Last week, Speyside distillery The Glen Grant celebrated the U.S. launch of its 70-Year-Old single...
CULTURE CLUB Powerhouse Arts Toasts The Fall of Man at the Times Square Edition Last week, the Brooklyn-based arts organization headed uptown to the swanky digs of the Times...
DESIGN The Glen Grant Proves Good Design Is Its Own Act of Devotion Artisan-made glass crystal decanters housing a hyper-limited release of 70-Year-Old single malt...
FASHION With One Dress, Mara Hoffman Raises the Bar for Fashion-Tech The designer known for colorfully sophisticated womenswear built to last a lifetime is the first in
ARCHITECTURE In Roy Lichtenstein’s Former Studio, a New Home to the Curators, Critics, and Artists of Tomorrow The late pop art grand master’s former studio and home has reopened its doors on the artist’s...
EXHIBITION The Other Art Fair Finds a New Home in Gowanus As a standard-bearer for affordable and approachable art acquisitions, the Other Art Fair seems to...
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SPATIAL AWARENESS An Inviting Home Base for Workshop/APD’s First Furniture Line Behind the New York City design firm’s latest project to launch in the public eye are some...
CULTURE CLUB Elmhurst Hospital Toasts 190 Years, and Revives Pictures for Elmhurst The Elmhurst Hospital has been on the front lines of New York City’s public health crises since...
EXHIBITION Ian Collings’ Study of Life Force Culminates in an Exploration of Movement The furniture designer-turned-sculptor brings stone to life with “Movements,” in which he...
SPATIAL AWARENESS An Oasis-Like Home for the Yageo Foundation’s World-Class Collection In the heart of Taipei, entrepreneur and art collector Pierre Chen enlisted French interiors firm...
EVENT RECAP A Night Out at David Zwirner, Benefitting Arts Education Last week, the mega-gallery treated friends and art world insiders to an exclusive first look at...
EVENT RECAP Arch League Boogies Down at the Brooklyn Navy Yard The organization's annual Beaux Arts Ball brought architects and designers out for an immersive...
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CULTURE CLUB Kambui Olujimi Brings a Fine Art Crowd to Lincoln Center The legendary venue may be better known for the performing arts, but on a recent weekend in early...
CULTURE CLUB Dorsia and Serpentine Toast Frieze London On October 12, Dorsia teamed up with megawatt gallery Serpentine to kick off Frieze London—and...
CULTURE CLUB Storm King’s Glittering Night at the Rainbow Room On October 4, Storm King Art Center headed downstate from its sprawling grounds in New Windsor to...
FASHION In a New Chloé Retrospective, Gaby Aghion’s Liberated Woman Lives On A new retrospective of the French fashion house and Gaby Aghion, its Jewish-Egyptian founder,...
CULTURE CLUB New York City Ballet’s Fall Fashion Gala Puts Its Best Foot Forward On October 5, Lincoln Center rolled out the red carpet for guests of New York City Ballet’s 75th...
NEW & NOTABLE What’s New This Fall, From Our List Members An art gallery at the Tin Building built by Cass Calder Smith, Holly Hunt's 40th anniversary...
HOTEL Japanese Minimalism Meets the Rugged Coastline of Los Cabos Studio PCH founder Severine Tatangelo offers an inside look at the new 60-room accommodations at...
FASHION Inside Carolina Herrera’s Historic New York City Ballet Commission As the first fashion designer ever commissioned by the world-class company to create costumes for a
CURRENTLY COVETING With the ACX Chair, Vitra Proves Simplicity Reigns Supreme Antonio Citterio’s latest for the Swiss company is a contemporary take on a task chair that...
EVENT RECAP Opera Gallery Brings Shepard Fairey to Singapore in Spectacular Fashion The gallery recently fêted the LA-based artist’s Singapore debut: a solo exhibition at Opera...
CURRENTLY COVETING Holly Tupper’s Fine Jewelry Debut for Cultus Artem Recalls Her Encounters With Nature By mining memories of childhood summers spent in the coastal idyll of Rhode Island and a...
ART With a Dazzling Work by Martin Puryear, Storm King Looks Ahead Hudson Valley’s sprawling museum and sculpture park recently unveiled an amorphous brick...
URBAN PLANNING What do Residents Gain From Well-Intentioned Neighborhood Rebrands? More than a decade ago, the Denver Housing Authority embarked on an ambitious redevelopment plan...
ARCHITECTURE From Upstate New York, Magazzino Charts a Future for Italian Art The museum and research center entered its next chapter with the unveiling of the Robert Olnick...
CULTURE CLUB Dallas Contemporary Celebrates 45 Years and Raises $1.6 Million On September 22, the museum rang in its 45th anniversary with a gala benefiting its extensive...
DESIGNER OF THE DAY Designer of the Day: Studio SFW In 2021, Studio SFW partners Rachael Stollar, Erin Fearins, and Ward Welch closed one chapter of...
NEED TO KNOW Skram Founder A. Jacob Marks Reflects on 20 Years of Hard-Fought Success The designer and furniture maker took his company from an idea cultivated in Piedmont, North...
RUNWAY REDUX At Carolina Herrera, Modern Elegance and Downtown-Cool Inspired by Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy’s casual glamor, Wes Gordon headed downtown from the Plaza...
CULTURE CLUB Creative Capital’s Gala Brings Art and Soul to the Paradise Club Last week, the grantmaking organization asked its considerable network to don their most...
TRAVEL The Four Seasons Drive Experience Isn’t Another Cookie-Cutter Napa Valley Tour The resort takes visitors into wine country’s most celebrated restaurants, vineyards, and...
ART Hank Willis Thomas Speaks on the Work That Remains The artist and For Freedoms co-founder was recently presented with the 2023 Medal of Arts award by...
RUNWAY REDUX At Proenza Schouler, Tough Questions and Clarity For Spring/Summer ‘24, Proenza Schouler founders and self-described “art school kids” Jack...
FASHION Are Redesigned Uniforms the Biggest Win for Women’s Sports? In an indisputably marquee year for women’s sports, more women athletes can now show up for work...
FASHION At NYFW, Designers Found Inspiration—and Collaborators—in the Art World Among them: runways at the Whitney and Phillips Auction House, prints attributed to Joan Jonas and...
ARCHITECTURE New York City Welcomes a Performing Arts Center at Ground Zero At the $500 million Perelman Performing Arts Center, the minds behind it sketch a hopeful future...
CULTURE CLUB Fashion Photographer Terry Tsiolis Toasts His Ultimate Muse—His Mother Last week, New York’s Salmagundi Arts Club celebrated the opening of Terry Tsiolis’s new...
CULTURE CLUB Magazzino Italian Art Opens Its New Pavilion With a Blowout Party Over the weekend, the museum and research center hosted more than 700 guests on its bucolic grounds
Trending How Much Money Should a Museum Director Make? A recent survey of the tax filings of cultural institutions pulled back the curtain and sparked a...
DESIGN Christopher John Rogers Speaks on His Farrow & Ball Collection Known for dreaming up colorful clothes imbued with exuberance and personality, the in-demand...
CULTURE CLUB Saint Laurent Curated Epic Vibes With Their Venice Film Festival Dinner August 29, Saint Laurent brought some star power to Venice by way of a dinner hosted by Anthony...
CULTURE CLUB The Black in Fashion Council Branches Out to Beauty On August 24, the Black in Fashion Council teamed up with Studio Symoné founder Darian Harvin to...
DESIGN Can Olympic Poster Art Dispel Paris’s Reputation for Cultural Snobbery? Six French artists and two Americans created a collection of posters to celebrate next year’s...
CULTURE CLUB The Southampton Arts Center SummerFest Brought Hamptonites Out for a Cause On August 19, it seemed as if all of the Hamptons turned out to toast Simone Levinson’s Champion...
EXHIBITION Society Awards Pulls Back the Curtain on the Artistry of Awards Season As the primetime Emmys draw near, Society Awards stages a first-of-its-kind exhibition that gives...
NEED TO KNOW Ingenuity and Inspiration Runs in the Veins of Buster + Punch Massimo Minale shares how past lives in architecture and motorcycle making led to his current...
CULTURE CLUB Mother Nature Crashed the Party at the Watermill Center’s Summer Benefit On July 29, the Robert Wilson–founded arts center on the South Fork of Long Island hosted its...
NEED TO KNOW The Evolution of Audo Copenhagen, a Standard-Bearer of Danish Design Joachim Kornbek Engell-Hansen stewards the family business in a new era and under a new name, ready
BEAUTY Will Prada Beauty’s Tech-Forward Makeup Lure Shoppers In? At a time when celebrities from the niche to the A-list (and most major fashion brands) all have...
NEW & NOTABLE What’s New This Summer, From Our List Members Karl Zahn’s kinetic sculptures at The Future Perfect, iF Design Foundation’s North American...
EXHIBITION Studio PCH Charts a Blueprint for Psychedelic Design The California-based studio’s captivating “Soulscapes” offer a glimpse into architecture’s...
RESTAURANT At Clase Azul’s La Terraza Los Cabos, Tequila and Fine Dining Soar to New Heights The high-end tequila and mezcal distiller is on a mission to roll out top-shelf-worthy tequila...
CULTURE CLUB Magazzino Italian Art Throws a Garden Party for Upstate Art Weekend On July 21, Magazzino Italian Art brought its founders, patrons, and friends together for Upstate...
EXHIBITION A Secret Jay-Z Retrospective Takes Over the Brooklyn Public Library Thousands of artifacts documenting the music mogul’s career were secretly assembled at the...
DESIGN Is Climate-Cooling Paint Coming to a Hardware Store Near You? Purdue University researchers are starting to get the world’s whitest white paint out of...
FASHION Ganni Goes All In On Bacterial Cellulose Alt-Leather This year’s most high-profile Scandinavian fashion debut wasn’t at Copenhagen Fashion Week, and
FASHION Thom Browne Officially Enters Couture With his 58-look, 35 minute-long Couture Week debut, the CFDA chairman put a spotlight on American...
CULTURE CLUB The CFDA’s Finest Turn Out to Celebrate AAPI Talent On June 28, the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) and Genesis House celebrated the new
Culture Club We Buy Gold Takes Over Jack Shainman and Nicola Vassell Galleries On June 29, We Buy Gold, the roving art space founded by Joeonna Bellorado-Samuels, celebrated the...
FASHION An Influencer Trip to Mask Shein’s Misdeeds Backfires The fast fashion giant has taken its latest misstep in the form of a botched influencer trip to...
Design Dialogues At SCADstyle 2023, a Melding of Minds on Sustainable Urban Futures INC Architecture & Design and Supernature Labs joined Surface for Design Dialogues No.58 to discuss
ARTIST STATEMENT For Gio Swaby, Love is Liberation The textile artist celebrates the multifaceted power of her chosen medium, finding softness and...
CULTURE CLUB A Carnival and Cruise Honors Creative Capital’s Newest Grantees On June 22, Creative Capital celebrated its 2023 “Wild Futures” grant recipients with a night...
Dance With Fusion at the Leipzig Ballet, AI-Hype Hits the Dance World Harry Yeff's 'Fusion' has grabbed headlines as the first “AI ballet,” But with humans behind...
ARTIST STATEMENT ClownVamp Imagines a Cannon of Overtly Queer Impressionist Painting The digital artist, whose recent exhibition, “Chester Charles: the Lost Grand Master,” was...
CURRENTLY COVETING With an Artful Eye, Anony Illuminates the Materiality of Sheet Metal The Canadian lighting studio’s new Pola collection reclaimed the softness of steel at its debut...
NEED TO KNOW With Her New Landmark Collection, Hannah Polskin Goes Global Ten weeks at work in SCAD Lacoste’s Alumni Atelier has yielded a career breakthrough for the...
NEW & NOTABLE What Our List Members Launched at ICFF/WantedDesign Biodegradable furniture from Model No., IED alumna Matteo Congiu shows ceramics made from culinary...
FASHION What to Know About Satoshi Kuwata, the 2023 LVMH Prize Winner Satoshi Kuwata has been named the winner of the 2023 LVMH Prize for Young Designers. It’s a...
DESIGN At Veuve Clicquot’s Polo Classic, Stephanie Goto Crafted the Best Seats in the House For the architect's La Grande Dame cabana pavilion, she found inspiration in Paola Paronetto's...
STORE A Terrazzo Track Graces an Airy Running Shop in Brooklyn Tracksmith's new Williamsburg outpost extends the effortless sophistication of its athletic apparel
EVENT RECAP Hannah Traore Talks Artful Rebellion with UN Women in New York On June 1, UN Women hosted Hannah Traore, Yvonne Apiyo Brändle-Amolo, and Justice Faith Betty for...
Culture This Summer’s Forecast: Pink, With a 100 Percent Chance of Barbie With the premiere date of Greta Gerwig’s highly anticipated film drawing near, Barbie-mania has...
ARCHITECTURE The Cost of Stigma Around Suicide-Prevention Architecture Architects and developers can work together to prevent such tragedies by breaking the stigma around
NEW & NOTABLE What’s New This May, From Our List Members A rare cask from Louis XIII, Moss & Lam’s whimsical decor for Holly Hunt, Miami Design...
SPATIAL AWARENESS A Beacon of the Arts Rises from the Hills of Los Angeles The Glorya Kaufman Performing Arts Center showcases a different side to L.A., bringing arts...
CULTURE CLUB The Guggenheim’s Young Collectors Council Hosts a Sci-Fi-Inspired Fête On May 24, the Guggenheim’s Young Collectors Council turned out for a seated dinner and benefit...
EXHIBITION Hacin Brings a Snapshot of Beantown Life to Venice After more than three years of isolation, the firm jumped at the chance to participate in the...
CURRENTLY COVETING An Intricate Chandelier Inspired by Birds in Flight Walking the line between glamour and minimalism, Ross Gardam’s Volant chandelier is the pinnacle...
Need to Know At Model No., High Design and Craft Meets Modern Manufacturing CEO Phillip Raub shares how the upstart furniture company uses 3D-printing and a made-to-order...
DESIGN Eriko Inazaki Wins the Sixth Annual Loewe Craft Prize Japanese sculptor Eriko Inazaki was selected as this year’s Loewe Craft Prize winner by creative...
Culture Club The Standard Kicks Off Art Week With a Talk for Young Collectors On May 12, a rising generation of collectors turned out in the East Village for the art week...
FASHION As Peter Do Ascends at Helmut Lang, Fashion’s Youthquake Continues The label’s newly appointed creative director is the latest example of unexpected...
ARTIST STATEMENT Karin Davie Charts the Journey of Making Art and Ascribing Meaning To It For “To Boldly Go Where No Man’s Gone Before,” her new exhibition spanning two New York City...
Hotel This Hotel Is Purpose-Built to Solve Travel Woes—But You Can’t Stay There With Skyview 6, a new hotel tailored for pilots and flight attendants, American Airlines takes a...
CURRENTLY COVETING An Archival Chair Inspired by an Architect’s Butterfly Fascination Previously limited to a sample run of only 10 chairs, Carl Hansen & Søn’s celebration of Vilhelm
NEW & NOTABLE What’s New This Spring, From Our List Members Gantri and Studio Word revive a fan-favorite lamp, Cadence’s latest Capsules, Kimy Gringoire's...
Store Luxury Fashion Carves a Foothold in Pittsburgh With newly opened retail destination Tons, two fashion veterans are bringing Maison Margiela, Jil...
Art Hip Hop’s Victory Lap Around the Art World Peaks in Baltimore With “The Culture: Hip Hop & Contemporary Art in the 21st Century,” the Baltimore Museum of Art
ART For Cj Hendry, Art Is Not a Spectator Sport The New Yorker by way of Brisbane has made a name for herself by staging solo shows in which the...
CULTURE CLUB Hästens Brought Slumber Party Vibes to Its Anniversary Party On April 12, Hästens rang in the 45th anniversary of its iconic Blue Check at its Soho Sleep Spa...
DESIGN DISPATCH A Lakeside Retreat Celebrates Dutch Maritime Heritage, and Other News Our daily look at the world through the lens of design.
CULTURE CLUB MOCA Throws a Star-Studded Soiree in Little Tokyo On April 15, bicoastal A-listers descended upon the Geffen Contemporary, MOCA’s outpost in the...
CULTURE CLUB A Glittering Dinner in Mumbai Toasts Dior and Indian Craftsmanship To celebrate Dior’s landmark pre-fall show and cultural programming in Mumbai, Chanakya ateliers...
Fashion Dior’s Landmark Mumbai Show Transcends Fashion Dior’s pre-fall show in Mumbai may seem like just another fashion-world spectacle, but in...
Trending What Drunk Americans Spent $14 Billion on Last Year A recent study raised a few eyebrows—and elicited some laughs—over the surprising ways...
Museums What’s Going on With the Met’s “Blood Antiquities?” A damning investigative report laid bare the dodgy details about the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s
Need to Know At Submaterial, Handcrafted Quality Reigns Supreme From functional wall art to biomorphic tabletop objects, the New Mexico–based company looks to...
Spatial Awareness A Multi-Island Oasis Springs Up on Riyadh’s Ever-Expanding Horizon Rolling lawns, shady expanses, and ample amenities make Riverwalk a destination for the growing...
EXHIBITION What to Expect When the Photography Show Returns to New York The flagship fair of AIPAD—Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD)—offers...
Need to Know Ouive’s Handmade Rugs Celebrate Centuries-Old Moroccan Handicraft Founder and photographer Kristina Williamson turned an off-the-cuff trip to the country into a way...
Culture Club The Art World Embarks on “Una Notte a Magazzino” On March 24, Italian art and culture aficionados flocked to Cold Spring, New York, for an...
URBAN PLANNING The 2028 Summer Olympics Looms Over Los Angeles Amid public misgivings, long-needed improvements—from public land revitalization to rail transit...
CURRENTLY COVETING Sustainability Meets the High-Seas Style Sunreef’s catamaran sailing yachts combine upscale amenities with the most innovative solar panel
CULTURE CLUB Art Production Fund Brings Couture Summer Camp to the Seagram Building On March 15, the Art Production Fund took over the landmark Seagram building in New York for its...
Film Willem Dafoe’s Latest Nemesis is Hostile Architecture In the newly released film 'Inside', the beloved character actor destroys museum-quality art and...
Runway Redux LVMH Prize Semifinalist Anne Isabella Finds Inspiration in Nature Behind Anne Isabella Rasmussen’s gauzy dresses and ‘70’s-mod knitwear is a deep appreciation...
CULTURE CLUB Project for Empty Space Honors Women Trailblazers On March 8, arts nonprofit Project for Empty Space took to the gothic revival Angel Orensanz...
Museums In London and the Bronx, the Next Generation of Children’s Museums Last week, the Victoria & Albert Museum announced the July opening of its long-awaited children’s
Currently Coveting This Collab Wants to Disrupt Denmark’s Affinity for “Fast Kitchens” Danish kitchen fabricator &Shufl’s revival of d line archival hardware proves newer isn’t...
Need to Know Good Design Has a Scarcity Problem—Gantri Is Using 3D-Printing to Solve It Industry titans have long held a status quo of unattainable pricing and incremental progress...
Fashion After a Year of Spectacle, Fashion Re-Focuses on the Clothes As the public’s tolerance for spectacles—like Schiaparelli's faux animal heads at couture...
Project Spotlight Studio PCH Brings California Cool to Universal Music Group You’d never know acoustic perfection was top of mind for the Nobu-favorite firm, which set the...
New & Notable What’s New This February, From Our List Members Ceramic coffee service by the minds behind RIOS, a Bergdorf Goodman takeover by Cultus Artem,...
ART David Hockney’s New Immersive Show Has Scandalized London Critics The art world's eyes are on David Hockney as he looks to transcend the gimmickry of immersive light
Currently Coveting Behind These Woven Wall Mirrors, An Existential Question Art and Loom teams up with Parts + Assembly to release a one-of-a-kind collection.
Runway Redux For His Ready-to-Wear Debut, Jackson Wiederhoeft Plunges High Society into Dante’s Inferno Jackson Wiederhoeft recently bought a bible for the first time in 10 years. “There’s a lot of...
Need to Know Javier Robles’ Worldly Perspective Transcends His Design Practice With commissions spanning four continents, the architect and designer brings his self-described...
Art Suneil Sanzgiri’s Anti-Colonialism Films Get a Bigger Screen The Indian-American artist, who became the first filmmaker to win the UOVO Prize, talks about...
Runway Redux Andrew Kwon Looks to the Northern Lights and Old Hollywood Glamour For his New York Fashion Week debut, rising star Andrew Kwon showed demi-couture evening wear...
Culture Club High Spirits at Mortlach by Design’s VIP Frieze Kickoff On February 15, Mortlach hosted VIPs for a preview of Sebastian ErraZuriz’s augmented reality...
Culture Club Rococo Art Advisory’s Frieze Week Dinner Brought Works of Art to the Table On February 14, guests gathered at Los Angeles restaurant Botanica for a five-course dinner party...
Runway Redux Legacy, Memories, Homecoming: Head of State’s Taofeek Abijako Explores His Nigerian Roots and Upstate Upbringing Nigerian-born designer Taofeek Abijako founded Head of State at the age of 17; from the beginning...
Exhibition At Frieze, Sebastian ErraZuriz Infuses Scotch Whisky with AI The multihyphenate is the latest design-world luminary to partner with Mortlach to showcase the...
Exhibition Jessica Lichtenstein’s Concrete Hearts Explore Masculinity and Femininity The artist’s latest—and last—exhibition of cracked concrete hearts draws inspiration from the
Runway Redux Ethereal Femininity and Unapologetic Boldness: Tia Adeola Returns to New York It’s reductive to center the conversation about Tìa Adeola’s designs around “sexiness.”...
Culture Club New York’s Culturati Turned Out in Force to Fête “Helmut Lang: Cowboy” On February 10, the Standard East Village hosted cultural tastemakers for an evening of art,...
Project Spotlight Holly Hunt Builds Two Villas Inside Its Sprawling New L.A. Showroom Why settle for one showroom when you can have two? With some help from local firm Johnston Marklee,
CULTURE CLUB Creator Labs Artists and Friends Throw Down at Boom On February 9, Google Pixel and SN37 toasted the 25 artists of Creator Labs: Season 7, a group...
RUNWAY REDUX Y2K, Pop-Punk, and Aughts Harajuku: A Vibe Shift is Afoot at Adeam Forget bicoastal—Adeam’s CEO and creative director Hanako Maeda’s latest collection draws on...
CULTURE CLUB Alicia Keys Toasts Hennessy Paradis With a Secret Concert in Joshua Tree On Feb. 7, Hennessy and Alicia Keys hosted an intimate group of cultural figures for a dinner and...
ART With Her Lens and Hip Hop, Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter Centers Black Feminism For a wrenching new exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, the Philadelphia-based artist establishes...
Design High-End Design Is Going to the Dogs—In a Good Way With home renovations and decor overhauls that prioritize Fido’s needs and perfumed pooch...
Project Spotlight For a Miami High-Rise, Gilberto Cioni Channels the City’s Art Deco Golden Age The Brazilian-born interior designer strikes a tasteful balance between the Magic City’s...
Culture Club Laura Kim and Tina Chen Craig Host a FOMO-Worthy Lunar New Year Dinner Party On January 30, Oscar de la Renta and Monse co-creative director Laura Kim and U Beauty’s Tina...
Designer of the Day Designer of the Day: A. Jacob Marks For furniture and lighting designer A. Jacob Marks, good design and fine workmanship are...
Travel Peek Inside the New Dubai Hotel Controversially Christened by Beyoncé The superstar recently made headlines for her not-so-secret performance at the most outrageous new...
Culture Club Hannah Traore Rings in Her Gallery’s One Year Anniversary Over the weekend Hannah Traore celebrated her 28th birthday as well as the one year anniversary of...
New & Notable What’s New This January, From Our List Members A 'Drop' of World-Class Cognac from Louis XIII, Flavor Paper’s Collaboration with Duke Riley,...
CULTURE CLUB Art and Design Upstarts Turn Out in Force for Young Collectors Night On January 26, the Park Avenue Armory hosted over 500 of New York’s most ardent art and design...
Currently Coveting Workshop/APD and Desiron’s Latest Furniture Line Belongs at the Center of Attention Inspired by today’s renewed focus on the importance of domestic space, the duo’s collection of...
Culture New York City Ballet Takes a Modern Turn Following the fall premiere of Surface cover star Solange Knowles and Gianna Reisen’s acclaimed...
Spatial Awareness A Dated Vacation Home, Reborn as a Dazzling Treehouse A Christopher Boots quartz chandelier, pristine La Cornue range, and ample skylights coalesce to...
Exhibition With ‘Merge’, Duplex’s Patrizio Chiarparini Flexes His Eye for Spotting Where Art and Function Meet The show of works by Duccio Maria Gambi meditates on the intersection of nature and manmade...
Business of Design Why Women Athletes Are Leaving Megabrands Like Nike For some women athletes, eschewing contracts with household-name sports brands in favor of more...
Trending With More Zero-Proof Beer, Wine, and Mixed Drinks Than Ever, Dry January is Gaining Year-Round Appeal A proliferation of booze-free speakeasies, bars, and bottle shops are gaining momentum and...
Need to Know How Steph Hon Made Cadence Capsules a Coveted Lifestyle Accessory In demanding better from designers, engineers, and investors, the founder is revolutionizing a...
OPENING SHOT At Central London’s Velvet Bar, Shrug Off the Cold With Cabaret and a Truffle Sazerac Equal parts plush and glamorous, the history-laden spot soars with sumptuous touches while dishing...
NEED TO KNOW How the Art World’s Favorite Mattress Helped Make Lauren Halsey’s Met Rooftop Installation a Reality The Hästens Art Support Fund is charting a new path forward by equipping artists with much more...
Project Spotlight In East Hampton, Magdalena Keck Puts a Modern Spin on Old-World Decadence Vintage furnishings practically sing against contemporary artworks at this East Hampton getaway,...
Design There’s a Sleek New Player on the SAD Lamp Scene Upstart gadget-tech company Loftie is offering sleepy aesthetes an alternative to the...
Culture Club Magazzino Italian Art Toasts the Holidays and a New Patron Program with a Disco Soirée On Dec. 13, Magazzino Italian Art hosted guests for a dinner party in Brooklyn followed by a disco...
Need to Know How Mortlach Is Flipping the Script on the Scotch Whisky Experience By engaging design talents around the world with one-of-a-kind collaborations, the heritage...
BUSINESS OF DESIGN “Caviar Lairs,” Ritzy Lodgings, and Pricey Furniture: Is RH Trying to Become the Next Soho House? RH seems to be on track to deliver the members’ club experience without annual dues, thanks to a...
Opening Shot In Edinburgh, the Storied Gleneagles Debuts a Boutique Hotel Inside a Restored Baronial Bank Promises of champagne buckets and a sumptuous Christmas day feast await holiday guests, who can...
EVENT RECAP In Miami, Surface and Model No. Toast the Power of 3D Printing On Nov. 30, Surface and sustainable furniture company Model No. hosted a reception for "Endless...
Culture Club Creatives from Around the World Joined Surface and Polygon at Miami Art Week On December 1, Surface and Polygon closed out a four-day takeover at the W South Beach, creating a...
Design Can a Revamped Rockefeller Center Lure New Yorkers to Midtown? Those behind the Art Deco landmark’s recent refit by INC Architecture & Design are hoping new...
Culture Club Nazy Nazhand and Carl Craig Throw a Vinyl-Signing Party at the Miami Beach Edition On Friday, December 1, the art and music worlds converged at the Miami Beach Edition for a vinyl...
Culture Club The Cultivist and Maestro Dobel Bring Power-Lunching to Miami Art Week On December 1, the Cultivist hosted its sixth annual artist lunch at the Setai Miami Beach....
Currently Coveting One of Lawrence Weiner’s Final Sculptures Is Now for Sale A year after his death, the first and only blanket from the pioneering Conceptual artist upholds...
FILM In the Sleek Universe of the Menu, Fiction is Scarcely Stranger Than Fact In creating 'The Menu', a new horror-satire that examines the dynamics at play in fine dining, the...
Project Spotlight In the Wilds of Utah, Susannah Holmberg Fashions an Indoor-Outdoor Retreat The designer's eponymous studio cultivates an inviting interior that speaks to the clients’ love...
ART For Creative Capital’s Christine Kuan, Supporting Artists Is Everything As the president and CEO nears two years in her post—and the grant-making organization nears its...
Events Join Surface at Miami Art Week 2022 From Web3 Salon Sessions co-hosted with Polygon at the W South Beach to cocktails fêting a...
Currently Coveting A New Outdoor Furniture Collection from Philippe Starck Effortlessly Harmonizes with Nature The architect and designer's first collaboration with Janus et Cie unites timeless elegance and...
Opening Shot In New York’s Hampton Bays, a Historic Inn is Restored Into a Serene Waterfront Getaway With a standout contemporary art collection, an outpost of cult-favorite boutique and spa Onda...
Culture Club Vivian Caccuri and Miles Greenberg Toast Their Show at The New Museum With a Party at the Public Hotel On Wednesday, November 9, artists Vivian Caccuri and Miles Greenberg toasted their joint New Museum
Beauty Behind the Rise of Artist-Designed Perfume Bottles Creative collaborations between art- and design-world talents and fragrance houses have long...
Project Spotlight Michael Hennessey Creates Hillside Harmony in a Sonoma Valley Home The architect transformed a Sonoma Valley home with a sprawling footprint reminiscent of suburbia...
Fashion Highlights and Honorees of the 2022 CFDA Awards Awards went to a roster of talented designers, stylists, and other industry insiders. Among them:...
Fashion Choose Your Fighter: Inside Fashion’s Gaming Play Following the likes of Marc Jacobs and Sandy Liang's Animal Crossing endeavor and Balenciaga's...
Design Laila Gohar and Mette Hay Launch a Tableware Collection On the heels of her inaugural Gohar World collection, Gohar lends her eclectic eye to HAY to...
Art Is Philanthropy As We Know It Going Out of Style? As a new generation comes into their inheritances—or self-made fortunes—and supplants...
Fashion This Fall, Fashion Can’t Get Enough of “Cocooning” Tekla finds inspiration in Le Corbusier's legacy with a drop of mohair throws, Tom Ford does...
Designer of the Day Designer of the Day: Marina Moscone “Impeccable” and “elegant” are words often associated with Marina Moscone's eponymous...
Need to Know Les Monts Doesn’t Want to Be Just Another Sunglasses Brand Ted Baker alumnus and Les Monts founder Casey Klugman talks charting his own path, the importance...
Culture Club Antwaun Sargent Rings in His Birthday and Frieze with MatchesFashion On Oct. 11, MatchesFashion kicked off Frieze week—increasingly regarded as the fifth fashion...
Designer of the Day Designer of the Day: Ian Collings From his days at the Pratt Institute to his postgraduate path in furniture design, a love for shape
Culture Club The Cultivist Fêtes Frieze London in Style at the Royal Academy On October 12, the Cultivist took over London’s Royal Academy of Arts, kicking off Frieze Week...
Art One of the Biggest Street and Light Art Festivals Opens Thursday in Cincinnati—Here’s What to Expect Blink festival executive director Justin Brookhart previews highlights from the festival, which...
Culture Club Ghetto Gastro Hosts a One-Night-Only Popup Restaurant and Afterparty On Oct. 5, culinary collective Ghetto Gastro created a popup restaurant as a part of Square's...
ART At Worthless Studios, Voice Art Takes Shape as an Immersive Exhibition Mohammad Gorjestani’s digital voicemail project, “1-800 Happy Birthday,” takes shape as a...
Fashion On the Heels of Fashion Month, Ukrainian Designer Svitlana Bevza Reflects on a Whirlwind Year The designer and founder of Kyiv-based label Bevza chatted with 'Surface' about an unprecedented...
Art Orange County Gets a World-Class Contemporary Art Museum A relaunched California Biennial, free admission, and the end of a 14 year-long project: here's...
Event Recap Simon Kim’s Taste of Asia Raises $1.4M for New York City Nonprofits In its second year running, the likes of Phillip Lim, Laura Kim, Andrew Kwon, and Eva Chen joined...
New & Notable What’s New This Fall, From Our List Members A limited-edition drop from Moleskine and Missoni, Seth Rogen’s new ceramic pieces for...
Project Spotlight 400 Suspended Flowers Revitalize a Brutalist Hallmark in Toronto Consultancy firm Art and Objects hearkened back to the roots of Old Toronto to craft an extensive...
Fashion F.K.A. Salvatore Ferragamo: The Italian Fashion House Would Like to Reintroduce Itself Everything is looking shiny and new at Ferragamo, where creative director Maximilian Davis used his
Project Spotlight Neil Logan Transforms a 20th-Century Industrial Workshop into Karma Gallery’s Newest Outpost The architect preserved the spirit of the space’s original features while executing a white-cube...
Currently Coveting Fritz Hansen Gives New Life to an Arne Jacobsen Classic With a fresh update to the FH3605 desk, the heritage brand continues celebrating its 150th...
FILM Does a Paid Fan Club and a Merch Store Make A24… Cheugy? Maybe the better question to ask, in light of its reception on the international film festival...
Culture No One Captured the Girlboss Aesthetic Better Than the Wing The biggest strength of the exclusive social club and coworking space was its image—until it...
Technology Apple is Dominating Contactless Payment—For Now Eight long years of patience is paying off for Apple, which is seeing adoption of Apple Pay...
Fashion For His First Theory Collection, Lucas Ossendrijver Finds Inspiration on the Streets of New York The collection marks the former Lanvin menswear designer's first foray into womenswear—and more...
Project Spotlight Carpenters Workshop Gallery Reclaims an Abandoned West Hollywood Warehouse A solo exhibition of Nacho Carbonell’s ethereal sculptures highlights how Standard Architecture...
Travel The Crop of Fresh Arrivals Re-Energizing New York City’s Hotel Scene Post-pandemic, the city is roaring back to life. Here are our favorite stylish new hotels to...
Project Spotlight Il Bisonte and Architect Giacomo Salizzoni Ensure the Future of a Secret Garden in Florence Part of a Florentine UNESCO World Heritage Site, an abandoned running track in the historic city...
Project Spotlight Sawyer & Co. Imbues a Hotel with a Spirit Befitting the Home of the Blues The 174-room Canopy Hilton Memphis aptly nods to the city's tradition of music studios, barbecue,...
Culture Forward-Thinking Directors are Heralding a New Era for Classic Plays With captivating leads, sleek production design, and a masterful handle on language, Robert...
Culture Club Worthless Studios Takes Over the Reform Club for Its Annual Summer Social On July 30, Worthless Studios celebrated its summer social at the Reform Club in Amagansett....
New & Notable What’s New This Summer, From Our List Members A new Glossier store in Washington, D.C., Pophouse Pop-Up at the PGA , Idris Khan’s first solo...
Art Artist Derrick Adams is Building a Retreat for Black Creatives The artist spoke with 'Surface' about how he partnered with Tiffany & Co. and Artsy to support the...
Culture Club The Cultivist Toasts Leslie Hewitt at Dia Bridgehampton On July 23, the Cultivist celebrated the recent opening of Leslie Hewitt’s new exhibition at Dia...
Fashion Hulu’s New Victoria’s Secret Documentary Is Full of Bombshells From its ties to the late disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to its...
Event Recap Art for Change Artists Launch a New Series of Prints at the Rockaway Hotel The artists, whose prints are now included in the hotel's contemporary art collection and available
Events Design Dialogues No. 56 with Winka Dubbeldam and Dror Benshetrit, Presented by Arca At the Arca showroom in Miami, Surface CEO Marc Lotenberg spoke with architect Winka Dubbeldam and...
Event Recap On a Brooklyn Warehouse, Oscar yi Hou Uplifts His Community The newest recipient of the Brooklyn Museum’s UOVO Prize, yi Hou celebrated the reveal with...
Fashion Schiaparelli’s Unsung Surrealist Legacy Gets Its Due A new exhibition examines the Elsa Schiaparelli's creative history and the house's present under...
Travel Hacin + Associates is Putting its Stamp on Boston’s Going-Out Scene A strong sense of place pervades the design firm's constellation of Beantown restaurants and bars....
Project Spotlight Innocad Merges Biophilic Design and Sustainability at an Austrian Research Center At MAM’s research and development facility, the wellbeing of employees is as paramount as the...
Event Recap Guests Stay After-Hours for Storm King’s “A Summer Night” Picnic and Party Storm King Art Center hosted “A Summer Night,” its second-annual summer celebration in New...
Travel Can Lie-Flat Seats Make Economy Class Flights Bearable? Designs from Air New Zealand, Alejandro Núñez Vicente, and Jeffrey O’Neill could usher in a new
Culture Club Fairchain Celebrates Three Years in the Business with a Summer Happy Hour On June 28, Fairchain celebrated its third anniversary with a happy hour at New York City's Time...
Project Spotlight Kvadrat’s L.A. Showroom is Adorned in Knitted Yarn Color and craft come together in the textile designer’s house-within-a box showroom envisioned by
New & Notable What’s New This Spring, from Our List Members From a new lighting collection by Christopher Boots at Milan Design Week and Lafayette 148’s...
Restaurant At Oiji Mi, Dinner Starts with Bokbunja Foie Gras and Air Force 1s are the Uniform de Rigueur This is not your parents’ prix-fixe: chef-owner Brian Kim imbues fine dining with fun and...
Currently Coveting Anony’s Wisp Suspension Lamp is a Study in Design Ingenuity Seeming to defy the laws of physics and mechanics, the Wisp lamp also invites constant interaction.
Culture Club The Cultivist and Bulgari Host an Artist Lunch at Design Miami/ Basel On June 15, global arts club The Cultivist and Italian fine jewelry house Bulgari kicked off Design
Fashion The Fashion Industry’s Powerful—and Controversial—Sustainability Rating System, Exposed Some of the biggest mass-producers in fashion support the Higg Index and its parent organization,...
Project Spotlight RIOS Brings a Futuristic Take on a Desert Super Bloom to Milan The installation sought to explore the joy and wonder of witnessing swaths of wildflowers appear...
Event Recap Chilewich Toasted Its Newest Store with a Cocktail Party in New York City Hosted during NYCxDesign, the textile studio's party gave festival-goers a chance to take in the...
Business of Design Absurdly High Spenders are Driving Luxury Fashion’s Pandemic Rebound Brands in turn are shelling out for private stores and super exclusive experiences to keep their...
Event Recap Surface and Rottet Collection Co-Host a Cocktail Party at ICFF New York City’s design community and friends of Surface and Rottet celebrate the brand’s new...
Design With the Return of the Disco Ball, Social Media Anoints Its Next Design Obsession Following in the footsteps of viral design objects such as Ettore Sottsass’s Ultrafragola mirror...
Art Teresita Fernández Creates Glimmering “Walled Garden” Made of Stainless Steel Above Brooklyn Fernádez spoke with Surface exclusively ahead of the unveiling of Paradise Parados to discuss the...
Currently Coveting Two Designs from Lasvit Capture the Fleeting Beauty of Nature With Herbarium and Dancing Leaves, the lighting and glassware company toes the line between art and
Currently Coveting Fritz Hansen Proves True Classics Never Go Out of Style With the Re-Release of an Iconic Chair Previously limited to a circulation of only 600, Fritz Hansen is re-releasing Poul Kjærholm’s...
Restaurant Near the Arc de Triomphe, a Young Chef Reveals a Sumptuous Feast Arnaud Behzadi architects took cues from Mallory Gabsi's interpretation of contemporary European...
NEED TO KNOW Same, But Better: Inside Herschel Supply’s Design-Driven Era of Reinvention With a fresh Soho flagship store and a New Classics collection of time-tested, artist-approved...
EXHIBITION Wolf-Gordon’s Artist-Driven AI Collab Reveals the Power of Human Creativity With its recent exhibition, “Project: HI > AI,” the wallcovering company saw human creativity...
DESIGN DISPATCH Bonhams’ Hong Kong Auction House Prepares for Opening Day, and Other News Plus, more than 100 galleries will be represented at Frieze L.A., and COP29 forms an...
DESIGN DISPATCH A Major New Fashion Retrospective Makes a Splash at MAXXI, and Other News Plus, Collina Strada's Hillary Taymour designs Christmas trees for Edition hotels, and the National
DESIGN Roman and Williams’ Latest is a Staggering Show of Luminous Power Behind the exhibition of 100 original lighting designs from from the prodigious power duo, a...
DESIGN Gen-Z Sets its Sights on Reinventing the Record Player With their first vinyl player, enterprising startup Kickback seeks to combine quality audio,...
ART Holograms and Boundary-Pushing Laser Art Dazzle in a Basement Gallery A subterranean darkroom may seem an unlikely place for a visceral art encounter, but subverting...