Memphis Art Museum sets the opening date for its new Herzog & de Meuron building.
On December 6, Memphis gets a new landmark. The Memphis Art Museum, formerly the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, and the oldest and largest art institution in Tennessee, reopens in a sweeping new 123,500-square-foot campus designed by Pritzker Prize–winning firm Herzog & de Meuron. Structured around a reconstructed bluff on the Mississippi River, the facility expands the museum’s gallery space by half and includes a 50,000-square-foot rooftop art garden, an outdoor amphitheater with river views, and six times more free public space than before.
Rama Duwaji wears custom upcycled Knicks couture to the championship parade.
For the Knicks’ first championship parade in 53 years, First Lady of New York City Rama Duwaji arrived in a one-of-a-kind upcycled dress by custom couturier Claire Sullivan made with three NBA Finals shirts spliced into a single look, paired with a black bubble skirt and Nike Air Rifts.
Rolex and Rockefeller Center have announced a partnership ahead of the brand’s new Fifth Avenue headquarters
Rolex has a new address in New York. Ahead of the opening of its North American headquarters at 665 Fifth Avenue, the Swiss watchmaker has entered an exclusive partnership with Rockefeller Center, unveiled with a new clock installed above the iconic rink on 50th Street. Designed in the spirit of the complex’s original 1930s Art Deco aesthetic, the clock features five support pillars recalling the points of the Rolex crown, and raised fluting nodding to the iconic bezel first introduced on the Oyster in 1926.
The Uffizi unveils its reimagined Botticelli Galleries.
For the first time in their shared history, Sandro Botticelli’s Birth of Venus and Primavera are facing each other. The Uffizi Galleries in Florence unveiled the new arrangement this week as part of a complete reimagining of the museum’s Botticelli rooms, placing the two most revered works of the Italian Renaissance in direct dialogue for the first time. Both paintings now sit inside hermetically sealed display cases that eliminate the external barriers that once obscured them, bringing visitors closer to the surface of each work than has previously been possible.
Mexican artist Ramón Saturino reframes the border wall through sculpture.
During Art Basel in Switzerland, 26-year-old Mexican artist Ramón Saturnino makde his fair debut with Lodos in the Statements sector, a sculptural fence of thin wires and brittle plaster weights that mimics the structure of fencing without the function, alongside photographs of the Sonoran Desert placed at irregular intervals behind it. Raised in San Luis Rio Colorado, a border town in Sonora, Saturnino works in abstract minimalism.
Today’s attractive distractions:
Everything Sofia Coppola has planned for Marie Antoinette’s 20th anniversary.
Three artists transform the shores of Lake Ontario with a new collaborative installation.
The V&A Summer Party turned 10 this year, and Mick Jagger, Maya Jama, and Rishi Sunak were there to celebrate.
Rozengrāls, an underground medieval tavern in Riga, has been serving feasts since 1293.
