Barbara Gladstone’s estate heads to Sotheby’s with Richard Prince, Jean Prouvé among top lots.
Sotheby’s will offer 140 art and design lots from the estate of the late Barbara Gladstone, with works estimated to bring between $6.9 and $10 million. The sale takes place June 9 at the house’s Madison Avenue headquarters and spans contemporary art, midcentury European modernism, prints, and photographs. Featuring works by Yayoi Kusama, Jean Prouvé, Jean Royère, Pierre Paulin, and more, the collection reflects Gladstone’s longstanding interest in the intersection of art and design. Leading the sale is Richard Prince’s Medusa (2003), a hood from an American muscle car estimated at $800,000 to $1.2 million.
Ten designers are competing for the 2026 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund.
The CFDA and Vogue have revealed the ten designers competing for the 2026 Fashion Fund, and the list spans jewelry, ready-to-wear, and more. Aisling Camps, Amir Taghi, Terrence Zhou of Bad Binch TONGTONG, Emily Dawn Long, Jamie Haller, Julia Ferentinos of Juju Vera, Zane Li of Lii, George Inaki of Milamore, Claire Sullivan of Miss Claire Sullivan, and Zoe Gustavia Anna Whalen are this year’s finalists. Presentations begin June 10, and the winner will be announced on October 20.
Prada Mode brings a Nicolas Winding Refn and Hideo Kojima collaboration to New York.
Prada Mode arrives in New York this week, taking over the Hotel Chelsea for its fourteenth iteration. Titled Satellites II, the five-day experience extends the collaboration between Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn and Japanese game designer Hideo Kojima, whose Satellites exhibition was first presented at Prada Aoyama Tokyo last summer. The experience runs June 3–7.
Frank Gehry’s first posthumous exhibition opens this month at Porto’s Serralves Museum.
The Álvaro Siza Wing of Porto’s Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art will host Frank Gehry’s first posthumous exhibition, opening June 12. Titled “The Century of Gehry,” the show was developed with Gehry Partners and the Getty Research Institute following his death last December at age 96. Curator António Choupina has organized the exhibition into eight thematic subcategories, presenting 19 of Gehry’s most recognizable projects alongside 17 large-scale maquette replicas, 40 sketches, 175 photographs, and 15 videos.
The Shed’s Doug Aitken exhibition centers a seven-screen cinematic piece.
Doug Aitken brings Lightscape, his monumental seven-screen installation, to The Shed for a summer-long run from June 25 through September 13. Taking over a 12,000-square-foot gallery, the work blends film, architecture, music, and live performance into an expansive look at the landscapes and contradictions of the American West. “In unprecedented times of extreme change, Lightscape is a portrait of the United States,” said The Shed’s artistic director Alex Poots.
Today’s attractive distractions:
Stella Artois found an elegant way to pop up at Roland Garros: a bar made of clay.
Dua Lipa wore Bulgari for her wedding, and the design channels Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra.
The world’s only design awards dedicated to psychedelics are accepting submissions for 2026.
Noah’s first L.A. store is part shop, part skate bowl, and part community space.
