Discover the Mapplethorpe Snapshot of Peter Berlin Hiding in This São Paulo Gallerist’s Bedroom

Alexandre Gabriel, a partner at São Paulo gallery Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, opens his home in the Praça da República neighborhood to reveal his personal art collection, which includes works by friends and a Robert Mapplethorpe photograph of Peter Berlin (1976). Gabriel describes how his collection began with gifts from artist friends he met while interning at a film production company in 1996, including Ivens Machado, Luiz Zerbini, Barrão, and Ernesto Neto, and emphasizes that his collection is strictly personal, guided by love and memory rather than market trends.

Here Are the Seven Booths We’re Beelining to at NADA’s 2026 New York Edition

The 12th edition of NADA New York is now open through May 17 at the Starrett-Lehigh building in Chelsea, featuring 120 galleries and nonprofit spaces from around the world. The fair emphasizes intimacy and scale, with presentations ranging from wrestling-scene paintings by Ursula Dilley to miniature landscapes stitched onto shirt cuffs by Chang Suyung, alongside collaborations rooted in regional craft traditions and psychedelic excess. Cultured magazine highlights seven must-see booths, including solo shows by Douglas Rieger and Loucia Carlier, and a transatlantic dialogue between Saenger Galería and COHJU.

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Abbas Akhavan has transformed the Canadian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale into a greenhouse-like installation titled "Abbas Akhavan: Entre chien et loup." The pavilion's wooden doorway has been replaced with glass, revealing a pond with pinkish water illuminated by sunlight and LED grow-lamps. Visitors encounter mossy boulders, a vintage fur coat sprayed with water, sharpened bronze sticks, and custom frosted mirrors that blur the architecture. The centerpiece will be three giant Bolivian water lilies, grown from seeds sent from Kew Gardens to Padua, which will gradually take over the pond over the summer. The exhibition is curated by Kim Nguyen, commissioned by the National Gallery of Canada, and supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.

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Cultured magazine invited seven MFA students from CalArts, Columbia, RISD, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Yale to share recent works and discuss their artistic concerns. The students—Sascha Huth, Martha Estrella, Wenqing Zhai, Yehwan Song, Ricky Vasan, Virginia Hanusik, and Khidr Joseph—work in painting, photography, and sculpture, addressing themes such as commodity culture, Mexican American identity, China's one-child policy, digital inequality, personal yearning, ecological collapse, and grief.

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Three downtown galleries in New York are currently exhibiting works centered on kittens, puppies, and puppetry, offering an escape from geopolitical conflict and domestic strife. At Chapter NY in Tribeca, Joseph Jones presents a solo show of photorealist pet portraits, including 'White cat with gemstones, 2026,' which dares viewers to engage with the often-dismissed genre of pet portraiture. Further east, Tibor de Nagy gallery hosts 'The Nagy Marionette Company: A 75th Anniversary Exhibition,' celebrating the gallery's origins in puppetry with archival documents and contemporary puppet-inspired art by nearly 20 artists, including Sarah McEneaney and Tabboo!.

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The article is a guide to three painting shows in New York's Tribeca neighborhood, curated by a critic who recommends visiting them in reverse order, ending with Nicole Eisenman's exhibition at 52 Walker. The featured shows are Katherine Bradford's "Communal Table" at Canada gallery (through December 13, 2025), Leslie Smith III's "Gentle Thoughts" at Chart gallery (through December 20, 2025), and Kate Spencer Stewart's exhibition at Bureau gallery (through December 20, 2025). Each show is described with critical observations about the artists' techniques, themes, and visual impact.

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The article reviews Alex Katz's latest exhibition at Gladstone Gallery in New York, featuring 11 large orange-and-white canvases depicting the road to his Maine home, alongside Matthew Barney's three-channel video work "DRAWING RESTRAINT 28" showing Katz at work on a ladder. The show, on view through December 20, 2025, pairs Katz's new paintings with Barney's video, continuing a collaboration first seen at O'Flaherty's gallery. Katz, now 98, reflects on his artistic evolution, citing Matisse's "The Red Studio" as inspiration while asserting his move away from literal representation.

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The Museum of Modern Art in New York is launching its latest New Photography exhibition, “Lines of Belonging,” on September 14, marking the series’ 40th anniversary. The show features 13 international artists and collectives from four cities, including Sandra Blow, L. Kasimu Harris, and Prasiit Sthapit, who each reflect on their contributions. Blow captures Mexico City’s queer nightlife, Harris documents Black Masking Indian traditions in New Orleans, and Sthapit photographs the changing landscape of Susta, Nepal.

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Artist Sam McKinniss, known for his internet-sourced celebrity portraits exploring fandom and parasocial relationships, is opening a new exhibition titled “Law and Order” at Jeffrey Deitch gallery in New York on September 6. The show shifts focus to figures of crime and justice, including “Hot Felon” Jeremy Meeks, Luigi Mangione, art dealer Mary Boone (as portrayed by Parker Posey in the 1996 film *Basquiat*), and a painting of Alcatraz, the former prison that President Donald Trump has proposed reopening. McKinniss describes the work as tracing the parameters of a top-down worldview in an era of new tyrannies. In an interview with CULTURED, he discusses his studio routine, creative influences like Martha Argerich, and the informal group chat that first sees his works-in-progress.

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Brandon John Harrington, a collector and Google executive, is featured in Cultured magazine for his role in the art world and his advocacy for queer visibility. The article highlights his collection and his work at Google, where he intersects technology with art patronage.

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The Aspen Art Fair returns for its second edition from July 29 to August 2, 2025, at the historic Hotel Jerome in Aspen, Colorado. The fair has doubled in size to 44 dealers, including returning exhibitors like Perrotin, Galerie Gmurzynska, and Southern Guild, and newcomers such as Marianne Boesky Gallery, Sean Kelly, and Vielmetter. Co-founded by Becca Hoffman and Bob Chase, the event features a boutique, intimate format with galleries displayed in hotel bedrooms, along with collector home tours, panel discussions, hikes, cold water plunges, and dinners. A special curated suite by advisor Wendy Cromwell draws inspiration from novels by Miranda July and Virginia Woolf.

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Photographer Martin Parr, 73, visited 24-year-old Moscow-born artist Maya Golyshkina at her London home for a collaborative shoot and interview published by Cultured. The two, who both began photography before age 16, discussed playfulness in their work, non-traditional materials like cardboard and household objects, and the role of social media in their careers. Golyshkina showed Parr her wearable cardboard creations, and the conversation ranged from Parr’s decades-long career documenting human banality to Golyshkina’s viral crying videos and her rise from posting self-portraits on Instagram to collaborating with luxury fashion houses.

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Arcmanoro Niles presents his latest paintings, including a rare self-portrait, in the exhibition "When There's Nothing I Can Do: I Go to My Heart" at Lehmann Maupin in Chelsea, on view through August 15. The Washington, D.C. native, known for intensely saturated domestic scenes and portraits in teals, reds, pinks, and oranges, created the works at his East Hampton studio, where he has been based since 2022. The show also serves as a preview for Niles's forthcoming solo exhibition at Guild Hall next summer. In an interview with CULTURED, the artist discusses his studio habits, his love of working alone at night, and his practice of never discarding old works.

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Michelin-starred chef Daniel Humm proposed to actor Annabelle Dexter-Jones during a portrait sitting with artist Francesco Clemente in New York on February 6. Humm commissioned Clemente to paint Dexter-Jones as a birthday gift, then revealed the completed portrait—Clemente's first nude—with an engagement ring painted on her hand and a matching ring from jeweler Joel Arthur Rosenthal of JAR in his pocket. The couple, who met at Vito Schnabel's wedding in spring 2024, plan a low-key wedding in New York later this month.

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Stefanie Hessler, director of New York's Swiss Institute, has curated the Parcours section of Art Basel for its second year, choosing the theme "Second Nature." The program, now in its 15th year, integrates site-responsive artworks into Basel's urban fabric, activating local businesses, infrastructure, and public spaces along the left bank of the Rhine. Works include Martha Atienza's three-channel video installation at a shop called Tropical Zone, Sturtevant's "Finite Infinite" (2010) under the Mittlere Brücke bridge, and a 1960s piece by Thomas Bayrle recreating a functional artist shop in a department store. Hessler selected artists whose work engages with patterns and habitual behavior, exploring how repeated gestures become ingrained customs.

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Two new art critics join the fold at Cultured, with Johanna Fateman reviewing Sanya Kantarovsky's first New York solo show since 2019, "Scarecrow," at Michael Werner Gallery's two Upper East Side locations. The exhibition features paintings, monotypes, and a glazed stoneware vase centered on Hera, a whippet belonging to artists Mark Dion and Dana Sherwood, alongside works like *Stage (Watteau)* that engage with historical painting. Mary Simpson covers Rosemarie Trockel's acerbic conceptualism, and Jeanette Bisschops reviews a posthumous exhibition of Chloe Dzubilo's intimate and irate drawings, "The Prince George Drawings," at Participant Inc., curated by Alex Fleming and Nia Nottage.

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American painter Chase Hall opens his first exhibition since becoming a parent, titled “Momma’s Baby, Daddy’s Maybe,” at Galerie Eva Presenhuber in Vienna (through July 19). The show features his signature acrylic works on raw canvas with coffee stains, exploring American archetypes like cowboys, tennis players, and musicians. In a new CULTURED column called Studio Frequencies, Hall shares insights into his creative process, studio rituals, and the tools he relies on, including a hand-held staple remover from Japan and an espresso machine. He discusses working with one assistant, Kelsey, and the influence of his wife Lauren Rodriguez Hall as his first critic.

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Artist Sarah Meyohas and architect Ben Dobbin, lead of Foster + Partners' San Francisco office, discuss their creative processes in a conversation published by Cultured. Meyohas, known for her conceptual work exploring technology across film, cryptocurrency, and holograms, recently installed a serpentine wall at Desert X and served as an executive producer on the Oscar-winning film *The Brutalist*. Dobbin, whose portfolio includes Apple Park and Vivaldi Towers, collaborated with The Dalmore distillery on the third Luminary series masterpiece, creating a sculptural display for two rare 52-year-aged whisky bottles, one auctioned at Sotheby's. The pair compare notes on designing spaces that shape human experience, from Meyohas's Bell Labs-inspired film *Cloud of Petals* to Dobbin's intimate restaurants in Tuscany.

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Woven and CULTURED hosted their second annual luncheon at Alba in Los Angeles, celebrating visionary women in design. The event brought together gallerists Megan Mulrooney and Anat Ebgi, interior designers Jane Hallworth and Sarah Weichel, and other creative professionals for a relaxed gathering that included fresh flowers, copies of the CULT100 issue, and a vintage car display. Attendees included jewelry designer Kim Dunham, gallerist Rosa Park, lighting designer Analuisa Corrigan, and others, with photography by Madison McGaw/BFA.

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Gordon Hall's exhibition "Hands and Knees" at the Kitchen in New York features sculptures made from chrome cantilevered chairs with seats and backs removed, arranged in configurations that evoke bodies on all fours. The show includes unannounced performances where performers are carried in on stretcher-like sculptures and placed on the chair forms, exploring themes of submission, rest, and bodily interaction. Separately, the article reviews Martha Diamond's posthumous exhibition "After Image" at David Kordansky Gallery, highlighting her 1986 painting "White Light" and her abstract depictions of New York City.

BLANCA DE LA TORRE Y EL “MUSEO ANFIBIO”: “A MÍ ME INTERESA EL PÚBLICO, NO NECESARIAMENTE LAS MASAS”

Blanca de la Torre, director of the Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (IVAM), discusses her concept of the "Museo Anfibio" (Amphibious Museum) in an interview for Artishock Revista's series on Ibero-American museum leaders. She proposes reimagining the museum as a relational institution that mediates between physical and symbolic territories, communities, and ecosystems, structured around two axes: Territories-Earth and Aquatic Environments. The interview is part of a series leading up to International Museum Day, with previous entries including Nicolás Gómez Echeverri of the Banco de la República de Colombia.

Historic Architecture Emerges from Stone in Matthew Simmonds Ethereal Sculptures

Historic Architecture Emerges from Stone in Matthew Simmonds Ethereal Sculptures

Sculptor Matthew Simmonds meticulously carves miniature, hyper-realistic architectural interiors—including gothic cathedral arches, vaulted ceilings, and stairwells—directly into hunks of Carrara marble and limestone. His recent works, often based on real sites like Bamberg Cathedral or Tuscan cities, reveal ornate, smooth interiors that contrast with the stone's raw exterior, and he is currently using a quieter period to experiment with how light and space within the sculptures can express a sacred quality.

Hannah Black “Harsh Muting” at zaza’, Naples

Hannah Black presents her first solo exhibition, "Harsh Muting," at the zaza' gallery in Naples. The show features five circular oil paintings that draw inspiration from the rotating word-play disks in Marcel Duchamp's surrealist film *Anemic Cinema*.

“Conceptual Art and Christine Kozlov” at Raven Row, London

A new exhibition at Raven Row in London is dedicated to the work of American artist Christine Kozlov, a key but often overlooked figure in the early Conceptual Art movement. The show focuses on her contributions from the mid-1960s to the late 1970s, revealing the scope of her activity during this formative period.

What makes love political, Wynnie Mynerva?

Was macht Liebe politisch, Wynnie Mynerva?

Peruvian artist Wynnie Mynerva discusses her exhibition "Volveré y seré millones" at the Société gallery in Berlin, timed to coincide with Gallery Weekend. The artist explores Andean cosmologies, specifically the concept of 'Ayni' or collective reciprocity, as a counter-narrative to Western, capitalist structures of romantic love and individualism. Her work draws from her personal experience as a migrant in Europe and her observations of Berlin’s queer scene, questioning how care and survival function within modern political frameworks.

A Drawing by Hans Baldung Grien Classified as a National Treasure

Un dessin de Hans Baldung Grien classé trésor national

A 1517 silverpoint drawing by German Renaissance artist Hans Baldung Grien, titled 'Portrait of Susanna Pfeffinger,' has been classified as a French national treasure. The work, which was set to be auctioned at the Hôtel Drouot by Beaussant-Lefèvre, is now subject to an export ban, giving French museums like the Louvre a 30-month window to acquire it.

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The Rothschild Vienna Mahzor, a 15th-century illuminated Hebrew prayer book, sold for $6.4 million at a Sotheby's auction on February 5. The sale followed the manuscript's recent restitution to the descendants of Alphonse von Rothschild, from whom it was seized by the Nazis in 1938.

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On June 23, the first of 16 larger-than-life copper statues was reinstalled atop Notre-Dame Cathedral's spire, following a blessing from Archbishop of Paris Laurent Ulrich. The statues, comprising the 12 apostles and four evangelist symbols, were originally installed in 1861 and had been safely removed days before the 2019 fire. After restoration by French company SOCRA, the statues are being returned in stages, with completion expected by July.

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Iran and Israel have taken urgent steps to protect their cultural heritage amid escalating military hostilities, including air strikes on Tehran and Tel Aviv. Iran's Cultural Heritage Organization transferred museum artifacts to secure storage and closed all museums and heritage sites, with deputy minister Ali Darabi directing custodians to follow crisis protocols. Israeli institutions, including the Israel Museum in Jerusalem and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, removed artworks from display to underground facilities and closed indefinitely, following Iran's retaliatory strikes on Tel Aviv.

Roberto Lugo brings monumental tribute to Puerto Rican culture to Manhattan park

Roberto Lugo has unveiled a monumental 20ft-tall urn titled *Capicú de Cariño (I Heard It Both Ways)* (2026) in Manhattan’s Madison Square Park, as part of his exhibition *Alfarero del Barrio (Village Potter)* commissioned by the Madison Square Park Conservancy. The urn features portraits of prominent Puerto Rican figures including Bad Bunny, Sonia Sotomayor, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Roberto Clemente, and the artist’s own parents, Gilberto and Maribel Lugo. The installation also includes a 15ft-tall orange fire hydrant sculpture, *Para Los Días Caliente (This Is For The Hot Ones)* (2026), and several planters and domino tables, all designed to invite public interaction and community engagement.