USPS to release a stamp collection featuring Linda McCartney’s photography.
Photographer and activist Linda McCartney will be honored by the United States Postal Service with a new stamp collection featuring her nature and still life photography. The set includes 20 stamps spanning five images, among them sunflowers and a teapot, designed by USPS art director Derry Noyes. A first-day-of-issue ceremony at the Museum of Modern Art in New York will herald the collection’s debut on September 25, when the stamps become available nationwide. Born Linda Eastman in 1941, McCartney became the first woman photographer to shoot a Rolling Stone cover in 1968, capturing a young Eric Clapton. After marrying Paul McCartney in 1969, her photograph of maraschino cherries appeared on his debut solo album cover, that same image now features on the new stamps.
Patek Philippe’s “Watch Art” exhibition brings 500 timepieces to Milan.
Patek Philippe will host the largest edition yet of its traveling “Watch Art” exhibition, running October 2–18 at CityOval in Milan’s CityLife district. Roughly 500 timepieces will span 15 rooms, including historic and current collection pieces, new limited-edition debuts, and a broader horology showcase featuring other major brands. A highlight is the 27-piece Rare Handcrafts collection, showcasing techniques like cloisonné enamel, miniature painting, and hand engraving, including two one-of-a-kind designs: the “Burano” pocket watch, rendered in 70 hand-applied enamel colors, and the “Sicilian Oranges” table clock, inspired by Palermo’s citrus groves. More than 90 pieces from Patek Philippe’s Geneva museum will also travel to Milan, including the Antique Collection, spanning the 16th to early 19th centuries, and historic Patek Philippe designs like an 1897 watch crafted for King Umberto I of Savoy.
Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla mark 40 years with a maximalist new Mumbai flagship.
Mumbai designers Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla are marking 40 years of their partnership with the opening of Mubarak Baug, a 20,000-square-foot flagship that blends retail, museum, and fantasy inside the historic Framjee Cawasjee Institute in South Mumbai. Named after Khosla’s childhood home, the space was designed by the duo’s interior arm, A Wonder Room, and took four years to bring to life, including a year securing heritage approvals. The store is organized across two levels. An open driveway leads into the ground floor, where larger-than-life mannequins stand on stilts among gold bamboo-inspired poles and a brass “floating city” installation crafted in Uttar Pradesh. A staircase leads to the upper level, where swooping brass-and-gold swans anchor the space. The design also incorporates sustainability: wall panels by Wolf Jaipur’s Ritu and Surya Singh, made from embroidery and fabric offcuts, sit alongside upcycled floral installations and gold relief silhouettes of the Mumbai skyline. A dedicated museum area displays rotating archival pieces, including garments worn by Isha Ambani and actress Madhuri Dixit, reflecting the designers’ longstanding ties to Bollywood.
No.9 Cork Street commemorates five years with debuts from seven global galleries.
No.9 Cork Street, Frieze’s year-round exhibition space in Mayfair, has announced its fall program, commemorating the venue’s fifth anniversary with a season of international galleries and U.K. debuts running September through November 2026. Seven galleries from across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia will take part. September opens with a career-spanning survey of Ndidi Emefiele from gallery rosenfeld, alongside new work from Jhaveri Contemporary’s Fiza Khatri and Kirtika Kain, and the continuation of Lehmann Maupin’s year-long residency featuring Teresa Solar Abboud. October’s exhibitions will coincide with Frieze London and Frieze Masters. November closes the season with Tabari Artspace’s group show spanning artists from the UAE, Egypt, and Syria, paired with a live poetry salon, and The Dot Project’s presentation of new paintings by Jack Penny.
Sliman Mansour, whose paintings shaped modern Palestinian art, dies at 79.
Sliman Mansour, the Palestinian painter whose depictions of farmers, hill villages, and embroidered dress became touchstones of modern Arab art, has died at 79. Born in 1947 in Birzeit, Palestine, Mansour studied art in Jerusalem, graduating in 1970, and emerged in the 1970s as part of a generation of Palestinian artists building a visual language from land, labor, and everyday objects. His best-known work, a 1973 painting often titled The Camel/Carrier of Hardships, depicts an elderly porter carrying Jerusalem on his back; a 2005 version sold for a record $257,000 at Christie’s in 2015. His work is held in institutions including the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi and the Barjeel Art Foundation, and he received the UNESCO-Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture in 2019.
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