The Loewe Foundation announced this year’s Craft Prize finalists.
The Loewe Foundation has announced 30 2026 Craft Prize finalists, selected from more than 5,100 global submissions. The practices span ceramics, textiles, furniture, metalwork, lacquer, and glass. The 2026 jury is chaired by Sheila Loewe, president of the Loewe Foundation, and includes prominent figures from design, architecture, and museum worlds—such as Frida Escobedo, Deyan Sudjic, and Patricia Urquiola—with Loewe’s creative directors Jack McCollough and Lázaro Hernández joining the panel for the first time. The winner of the €50,000 prize (with two €5,000 special mentions) will be announced on May 12; prior to an exhibition at the National Gallery Singapore from May 13–June 14.
This year’s Met Gala’s dress code is “Fashion is Art.”
The 2026 Met Gala, set for May 4 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, will celebrate the Costume Institute’s spring exhibition titled “Costume Art.” Vogue has announced that the official dress code for the gala is “Fashion is Art,” encouraging attendees to interpret fashion as artistic expression—reflecting the exhibition’s focus as a central motif. The event will be co-chaired by Beyoncé (her first Met Gala appearance since 2016), Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams, and Anna Wintour, with a prominent Host Committee and lead sponsors including Saint Laurent, Condé Nast, and Jeff and Lauren Sánchez Bezos.
The architecture of Luis Barragán’s La Cuadra San Cristóbal is currently in dialogue with the art of Felix González-Torres.
Through April 5, Mexico City’s La Cuadra San Cristóbal is hosting a solo exhibition of works by Felix González-Torres—curated by Pablo León de la Barra and staged within the striking 1968 Luis Barragán–designed estate. The show creates a poetic dialogue and imagined encounter between González-Torres’s conceptual art—known for its use of everyday materials and themes of impermanence and shared responsibility—and Barragán’s architectural spaces.
NADA New York’s 2026 exhibitors have been listed.
NADA New York 2026 will take place from May 13–17 within Chelsea’s Starrett-Lehigh Building.
The 12th edition of the nonprofit New Art Dealers Alliance’s contemporary art fair will feature 111 galleries and nonprofit exhibitors—with 45 NADA members (including Chozick Family Art Gallery, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Proxyco, and Spinello Projects) as well as 51 first-time participants (such as Brigitte Mulholland, The Address, FORGOTTEN LANDS, Central Server Works).
For the first time, MIT researchers have mapped NYC foot traffic.
Researchers at MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning, led by Associate Professor Andres Sevtsuk, have created the first complete city-wide model of pedestrian activity for any U.S. city by assembling a routable dataset of sidewalks, crosswalks, and footpaths and mapping foot-traffic patterns across all of New York City during peak periods. The model reveals that while Midtown Manhattan has the highest pedestrian volumes per block, many streets in the outer boroughs also support levels of foot traffic comparable to central Manhattan, highlighting potential inequities in infrastructure investment. This tool, published in Nature Cities, could help urban planners make data-driven decisions about pedestrian infrastructure, public space investments, and safety improvements.
Today’s attractive distractions:
You can now book a night inside Karl Lagerfeld’s former office.
Swarovski’s “pop luxury” continues to reach elevated environs.
Poet Ocean Vuong’s debut exhibition, Sống, beautifully channels grief through photography.
The Nike x Jacquemus Moon Shoe returns—and it’s better than ever.
