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article culture schedule Dec 4, 2025 source 2 sources visibility 14 link 11 artists, 1 gallery

culture editors gift guide christmas holidays

Cultured magazine's editors have published a holiday gift guide featuring a curated selection of items ranging from books and film memberships to robes, facials, and art-related products. Recommendations include Elaine Kraf's novel "The Princess of 72nd Street," an AAA24 membership from production company A24, a Hanro shawl collar cotton robe, a facial from Cali Strauhs, and a set of architecture-themed notebooks and books from the New Museum and Special Special. The guide also highlights a bronze sculpture by artist Ryan Schneider, tying the list to contemporary visual art.

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museum exhibitions schedule Feb 23, 2026 visibility 17 link 17 artists, 4 galleries

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Cultured magazine highlights three emerging artists to watch during Frieze Los Angeles: Katelyn Eichwald, Nevine Mahmoud, and Casey Bolding. The article features interviews with each artist, discussing their upcoming presentations in LA, their creative processes, and how their life experiences inform their work. Casey Bolding, for example, discusses his exhibition "Bloodstream" at Karma Los Angeles and how his background in graffiti and faux finishing influences his paintings.

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article culture schedule Feb 23, 2026 visibility 16 link 4 artists

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Kenturah Davis, a Los Angeles- and Accra-based artist known for large-scale drawings and carbon pencil rubbings that incorporate text, lost her Altadena home and studio in the Eaton fire last year. In response, she helped organize “Ode to ‘Dena,” a group show at the California African American Museum honoring the neighborhood, and is now launching Rest Stops, a restorative public art project and community garden aiming to establish 10 green spaces by 2027. She has also taken up pottery classes and rebuilt her studio practice in a new Altadena sanctuary.

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article culture schedule Feb 19, 2026 visibility 13 link 8 artists

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The article explores the intersection of art and playground design, highlighting how artists have created inspiring play spaces that double as works of art. It begins with the 1954 Museum of Modern Art competition for creative playground equipment, won by Virginia Dortch Dorazio's Fantastic Village, and discusses Isamu Noguchi's Playscapes, including his only U.S. installation in Piedmont Park, Atlanta, commissioned by the High Museum of Art in 1975. The piece then profiles four artist-designed playgrounds: Carsten Höller's Pink Mirror Carousel in St. Moritz, Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam's Woods of Net in Japan, Niki de Saint Phalle's Tarot Garden in Italy, and others, each blending sculpture with interactive play.

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article culture schedule Feb 18, 2026 visibility 8 link 4 artists

fashion versace ss26 campaign mexico city

Versace has launched its Spring/Summer 2026 campaign, commissioning three photographers—Steven Meisel, Frank Lebon, and Tania Franco Klein—to create distinct visual contributions. Klein, a Mexican photographer based in Mexico City, shot her portion entirely in her home city, using local talent and crew. Her images are intimate, psychological, and reference her own past projects, including a recreation of her grandmother's earthquake-destroyed room. The campaign was directed by Dario Vitale and features a soundtrack by the duo New York.

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person people schedule Feb 20, 2026 visibility 11 link 21 artists

art collector amelie du chalard gallery interview

Amélie du Chalard, a bi-continental art collector and gallery owner, discusses her lifelong journey with art in an interview with CULTURED. Starting her collection at age 16 through family tradition, she founded her eponymous gallery in Paris in 2015 and later expanded to New York. Her collection and gallery blend design objects with fine art, embracing what she calls 'haptic minimalism'—a tactile, gentle aesthetic. She shares her sourcing process, including using the Drouot auction app and Artsy, and recounts tracking down a piece first seen in a 14th-century palace.

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article culture schedule Sep 16, 2025 visibility 12 link 10 artists

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CULTURED magazine hosted a September issue launch party at FOOD, a revived 1970s art-world restaurant now run by artist Lucien Smith and the estate of Gordon Matta-Clark. The event, co-hosted by legendary model and activist Bethann Hardison and CULTURED Editor-in-Chief Sarah Harrelson, drew a crowd of fashion and art insiders including designers, stylists, artists, and editors. Guests enjoyed family-style dishes, Lagavulin cocktails, and left with copies of the magazine's latest covers featuring Julia Fox, Anthony Edwards, Vicky Krieps, Sophie Calle, and Lucien Smith.

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article culture schedule Feb 24, 2026 visibility 6 link 6 artists

literature wayne koestenbaum books my lover the rabbi

Wayne Koestenbaum, a leading figure in New York's queer and literary scenes since the 1980s, is releasing his first novel in nearly two decades, *My Lover, the Rabbi*, in March. The 464-page book centers on an unnamed narrator's psychosexual affair with an aging rabbi, exploring themes of desire, repulsion, internalized homophobia, and the lingering aftermath of the Holocaust. Koestenbaum, known for his confessional prose and genre-straddling criticism—including his 1993 book *The Queen's Throat*—discusses the novel's intellectual filth, the conflation of desire and disgust, and his literary role models such as Samuel Delany and Jean Genet.

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museum exhibitions schedule Feb 18, 2026 visibility 9

fashion buccellati shanghai retrospective milanese jewelry

Buccellati, the Milanese jewelry house founded in 1919 and now owned by Richemont, held a major retrospective titled “The Prince of Goldsmiths” in Shanghai. The exhibition traced the family-run enterprise’s 100-plus-year history, showcasing signature pieces such as four butterfly brooches representing successive generations of the Buccellati family—from founder Mario to great-granddaughter Lucrezia—alongside sumptuous jewelry and lesser-known home decor, including animal-inspired silverware and chrome lobster sculptures.

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