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Chardin’s strawberries masterpiece forms fruity backdrop to Dior catwalk

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Eagle-eyed arty fashionistas spotted two delectable paintings by the underrated 18th-century French artist Jean Siméon Chardin hanging alongside the catwalk. LVMH also owns Dior. The Art Newspaper

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Commercial goes pastoral: the draw of showing art in the open air

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© Jean Tinguely, DACS 2025, Photo: Ken Adlard, Courtesy of the artists and Hauser & Wirth Since it opened in 2014, Hauser & Wirth Somerset has brought contemporary art, burrata and around 110,000 visitors a year to the small town of Bruton in southwest England. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2025.

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Renewed Bern Kunsthalle works to reframe Switzerland's history

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In place of plastic, the Ghanaian artist enfolded the building in a material evocative of global labour and trade—jute sacks made in Southeast Asia and imported to Ghana for the transportation of cocoa beans to European markets. ft of polyethylene over the Neo-Classical façade of the Kunsthalle Bern—their first wrapping of an entire building.

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Amid a cost of living crisis for London’s artists, a charity has secured dozens of affordable studio spaces

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It acquired its first building in 2022, the east London site opening the following year under the name Three Waters—with 70 affordable studios for artists. The studios will become available in 2026. Curations ​​was cut short. Curations ​​was cut short.

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Anonymous image makers, New York nights and confronting the colonial: three photography shows to see at Les Rencontres d'Arles

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Presented across several sections— Counter-voices , Families Stories , Rereadings , Archive Tales , Variable Geometry , Nomad Chronicles and Emergences —and accompanied by satellite shows at venues big and small, the sprawling event presents thousands of images by hundreds of image makers.

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New venue for video, sound and other durational art forms coming to Manhattan

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A new venue for durational art, Canyon , will open its doors on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 2026. The artists working in time-based media today are grappling with everything from artificial intelligence and facial recognition to climate anxiety and cultural memory. The 40,000 sq.

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Ahead of new fair in 2026, Qatar takes centre stage at Art Basel

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Rare appearance Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the sister of Qatar’s present emir and driving force behind the state’s long-term cultural ambitions, also made a rare appearance, speaking yesterday on a panel discussion at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel alongside the architect Jacques Herzog and the artist Urs Fischer. “We