DC’s Phillips Collection to debut a rare Avery, Gottlieb, and Rothko exhibition this October.
The Phillips Collection presents “Avery, Gottlieb & Rothko: By the Sea,” tracing the creative exchange and coastal summers that helped define three influential figures in 20th-century American art. Milton Avery, Adolph Gottlieb, and Mark Rothko met in New York City, but it was Avery, who first visited Cape Ann in the 1920s, who drew the other two to Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the 1930s, mentoring them during summers spent painting, drawing, and exchanging ideas. On view October 24 through January 24, 2027, the exhibition brings together roughly 90 paintings, watercolors, drawings, and sketches revealing the personal and artistic bonds that developed among the three over four decades. It traces how a shared sense of place, expressive use of color, and experimentation with scale shaped Avery’s representational modernism alongside Gottlieb and Rothko’s eventual embrace of abstraction.
Central Park’s Bethesda Fountain and Conservatory Water Basin are getting a $37 million restoration.
The Central Park Conservancy has announced a $37 million restoration of two of the park’s most popular destinations, the Bethesda Fountain and the Conservatory Water Basin, with the nonprofit’s in-house design team carrying out the work. Completed in 1873, the Bethesda Fountain was designed by architects Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mould, with sculptor Emma Stebbins contributing the centerpiece Angel of Waters statue. The restoration aims to balance historic preservation with modern infrastructure while improving accessibility and addressing decades of wear. The Bethesda Fountain will be upgraded “from the inside out,” with its sculptural details meticulously restored and its mechanical systems replaced with modern equipment to ease maintenance and improve water circulation in its cascading pools. At the Conservatory Water Basin, long plagued by cracks, contractors will repair the historic steps and reconstruct the foundation to make it waterproof.
MFA Boston lands “Renoir and Love,” its first major Renoir show in four decades.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston will be the only U.S. venue for “Renoir and Love,” opening February 28, 2027, a once-in-a-generation exhibition co-organized with the Musée d’Orsay in Paris and the National Gallery in London. Billed as the first show devoted specifically to the theme of love in Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s work, it also marks the museum’s first major Renoir exhibition in more than four decades. The show brings together 40 paintings from collections around the world and runs through June 13, 2027. “Renoir and Love” centers on the two decades between the mid-1860s and mid-1880s, a period the museum considers the height of Renoir’s output, when the artist turned repeatedly to themes of friendship, family, and flirtation rather than the moralizing subjects favored by some of his Impressionist peers. The exhibition argues that Renoir’s scenes of gardens, cafés, and theaters were among his greatest achievements.
IFDA 2027 opens a call for entries, asking designers to rethink wood from scratch.
Returning for its 13th edition, the International Furniture Design Competition Asahikawa (IFDA 2027) has launched its call for entries under the theme “Origin,” inviting designers worldwide to re-examine the relationship between human lifestyle, craftsmanship, and raw timber. The theme asks designers to look closely at wood’s intrinsic qualities, pushing the boundaries of traditional technique and modern design while exploring the material’s potential. Since its founding in 1990, IFDA has served as a bridge connecting the global design community with Asahikawa, Hokkaido, often called the “heartland of furniture” for its sophisticated woodworking ecosystem. Over three decades, the competition has drawn 10,084 entries from 79 countries and regions, helping transform local expertise into a globally recognized design hub, a legacy that factored into Asahikawa’s designation as a UNESCO Creative City of Design in 2019.
The Studio Museum in Harlem unveils its fall lineup featuring nearly 500 collection works.
The Studio Museum in Harlem has announced the fall exhibitions that will close its inaugural year of programming, continuing the museum’s commitment to showcasing its permanent collection of more than 800 artists in its new 82,000-square-foot home. The fall lineup includes “Dreams of This Future: The Collection of Peggy Cooper Cafritz,” an exhibition of works bequeathed to the museum by the late arts patron, educator, and civil rights activist, who gifted more than 400 objects from her personal collection in 2018, substantially building out the museum’s holdings. Opening in September, “Geometries” will present works that center geometry as a point of artistic inquiry.
Scottish textile designer Donna Wilson knits bananas, whales, and toadstools into cushions.
Chrome Hearts and MIKIMOTO’s new 22K gold collaboration is dressed in diamonds and pearls.
Paris Saint-Germain teams up with Droplet for a 48-piece incense collection.
The NYC ferry drops its first-ever merch.
