PAMM opens a Basquiat exhibition from the Kenneth Griffin collection.
Pérez Art Museum Miami has opened “Basquiat: Figures, Signs, Symbols,” one of the most significant presentations of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s work ever mounted in South Florida. The exhibition brings together nine paintings and one sculpture from the Kenneth C. Griffin Collection. The show focuses on Basquiat’s central preoccupations: portraiture, language, anatomy, race, power, and the layered visual vocabulary that defined his practice. Major works include Untitled (1982), featuring the skull-like heads that became his signature motif; In Italian (1983), a densely packed composition that functions simultaneously as portrait, and Pez Dispenser (1984), his reimagining of a familiar consumer object.
Dior brings wellness to Sicily with a new permanent spa at Belmond Taormina.
Dior has opened its first permanent spa in Sicily, tucked into the terraced gardens of Grand Hotel Timeo, A Belmond Hotel, in Taormina. The spa spans four treatment rooms—Diorazur, Diorama, Rosa dei Venti, and the Isola Bella Suite—where the hotel’s historic Sicilian mosaic floors meet Dior’s design language in natural materials including stone, onyx, and pale-hued woods. The Isola Bella Suite includes its own beauty room for custom makeup sessions and an infrared sauna.
The Campus Upstate returns for summer 2026 with an expanded international program.
This Saturday, June 27, The Campus Upstate kicks off its third annual summer exhibition in the Hudson Valley, running through November 1. The 2026 edition marks an important expansion for the collaborative program, welcoming eight U.K.-based galleries. The program presents full-room installations in which thirty artists were invited to place works in relation to the existing architecture and site history. The exhibition emphasizes transitions between individual rooms, allowing each installation to function as a self-contained environment. A highlight of the season is a solo presentation by Tuan Andrew Nguyen, organized by James Cohan Gallery. Nguyen’s installation centers on A Luminous Echo, a new nine-foot carved sandstone Buddha sculpture whose hands were cast from reclaimed artillery shells.
Crystal Bridges names Courtenay Finn as its new chief curator.
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has appointed Courtenay Finn as its new chief curator, the Bentonville, Arkansas institution announced. Finn joins from the Orange County Museum of Art in California, where she served as chief curator and director of programs and helped shepherd the museum’s 2022 move into its Morphosis-designed building in Costa Mesa. Finn will also oversee curatorial programming at the museum’s counterpart, the Momentary. She succeeds Austen Barron Bailly, who was earlier this year promoted to deputy chief director of curatorial affairs.
A year after joining Substack, Balenciaga becomes the platform’s first fashion house partner.
Balenciaga has become the first fashion house to officially partner with Substack, the newsletter and independent publishing platform. The announcement came during Cannes Lions, where the brand celebrated the partnership at its Cannes flagship with a literary panel discussion. The move builds on a relationship that began in July 2025, when Balenciaga launched one of the first fashion brand profiles on the platform. A year later, the house formalized that presence by joining Substack’s native sponsorship program, a step that signals both an investment in independent media and a pointed statement about where luxury brands are choosing to build their cultural presence.
Today’s attractive distractions:
Nike drops limited Cristiano Ronaldo cleats to mark six consecutive World Cup goals.
Food, architecture, and culture converge at Alvar Aalto’s Helsinki studio for the first time.
Christian Borger’s new chess set turns architectural hardware into game pieces.
Nodaleto and Julietta bring their signatures together in a new jewelry collaboration.
