Kelly Akashi and friends celebrate Altadena's resilience after Los Angeles wildfires

Artist Kelly Akashi created "Field Set," an installation and performance on the site of her former home and studio in Altadena, California, which was destroyed by the Eaton wildfire last year. The project, supported by the nonprofit Los Angeles Nomadic Division (Land), featured salvaged materials, hand-blown glass orbs, wildflower plantings, and a soundscape by artist Phil Peters, drawing around 500 visitors over two days. Akashi integrated remnants from the fire into her recent Lisson Gallery show and has been awarded the Hyundai Terrace Commission for the 2026 Whitney Biennial, where she will present a glass replica of her chimney titled "Monument (Altadena)."

This year for Art Basel, the square in front of the Basel fair will become a forest

Quest’anno per Art Basel la piazza di fronte alla fiera di Basilea diventerà una foresta

Swiss landscape architect Enzo Enea, founder of the Enea Tree Museum near Zurich, will transform the Rundhof courtyard at Art Basel in Basel into an immersive natural installation titled "The Living Fragment" for the fair's 2026 edition (June 15–21). The project brings a fragment of his open-air museum to the fair, featuring rescued trees from Europe, North America, the Caucasus, and East Asia, arranged with hand-carved wooden seating treated with the traditional Japanese Yakisugi technique. The installation will be open to the public from June 18 to 21, with VIP preview access on June 16–17, offering a green oasis for relaxation during the hectic fair days.

There is an exhibition on Impressionist landscapes at the Palazzo Reale in Palermo

C’è una mostra sui paesaggi Impressionisti nel Palazzo Reale di Palermo

A new exhibition titled "Tesori Impressionisti: Monet e la Normandia" has opened at the Palazzo Reale in Palermo, featuring 97 works by 45 artists from the Collezione Peindre en Normandie, the MuMa in Le Havre, and private collections. The show marks the centenary of Claude Monet's death and the 150th anniversary of Impressionism, and is curated by art historian Alain Tapiè. The article poetically connects the exhibition to an unusual climatic event in Palermo during January and February 2026, when stormy weather and diffused light temporarily made the Sicilian coastline resemble the Norman coast, mirroring the Impressionists' study of sea and sky.

NOMAD art fair to launch first U.S. edition in the Hamptons this summer.

NOMAD, the traveling fair for art and design, will launch its first U.S. edition at the Watermill Center in the Hamptons from June 25th through 28th. Curated by co-founder Nicolas Bellavance-Lecompte, the fair will feature a signature mix of modern and contemporary art, design, and jewelry, set within the indoor and outdoor spaces of the Watermill Center, an experimental arts venue founded in 1992.