BBrooklyn will host the second People’s Runway this September for New York Fashion Week.
The People’s Runway, an initiative led by KidSuper founder Colm Dillane in partnership with Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, will return to New York Fashion Week this September as a public platform for emerging designers from the borough. The program provides selected participants with mentorship, funding, and runway exposure, with five designers receiving $5,000 grants and the opportunity to present collections that explore themes including identity, immigration, heritage, and community. Staged as an open-air event at Brooklyn Borough Hall and positioned as an alternative to fashion’s traditional gatekeeping structures, the project reflects Dillane’s broader effort to use his platform to elevate young creative talent and make New York Fashion Week more accessible to both designers and audiences.
The Chancery Rosewood x University of the Arts London Creative Transformation Award announced its inaugural winners.
The Chancery Rosewood and the University of the Arts London (UAL) have announced the inaugural winners of the Creative Transformation Award, which recognizes emerging talent whose work demonstrates innovation, cultural relevance, and transformative thinking across art, design, fashion, communication, and material practice. Three graduates—selected from a shortlist of 20 finalists drawn from across UAL’s colleges—each received a £5,000 award, with the initiative forming the culmination of a six-month cultural partnership between the luxury hotel and the university.
Artist Clarence Heyward’s vandalized self-portrait remains on display at the Houston Museum of African American Culture.
A painting by Brooklyn-based artist Clarence Heyward was intentionally vandalized at the Houston Museum of African American Culture (HMAAC), where his solo exhibition “EDEN” is on view. The damaged work, Man in the Garden (2025), sustained a puncture and a long horizontal gash on May 21; museum officials said two visitors are suspected, and Houston police have opened an investigation. Rather than completing restoration immediately, HMAAC chose to return the damaged self-portrait to public view, arguing that visitors should confront the consequences of attacks on cultural expression.
A rare survey of Max Beckmann opens ahead of Art Basel 2026.
Hauser & Wirth Basel has opened a rare survey of Max Beckmann ahead of Art Basel 2026, bringing together self-portraits, landscapes, portraits, and social allegories spanning the German artist’s entire career, including a number of works that have rarely been publicly exhibited. Curated in close collaboration with Mayen Beckmann, the artist’s granddaughter and steward of his estate, the exhibition offers an unusually intimate view of Beckmann’s practice, balancing his psychologically charged depictions of Weimar-era society and wartime upheaval with more personal and luminous works from private collections.
Achieving a record $75.8 million, Phillips hosted the highest-grossing watch auction in U.S. history.
Phillips set a new benchmark for the U.S. watch market with its two-day New York Watch Auction: XIV, which realized $75.8 million, making it the highest-grossing watch auction ever held in the United States. The auction followed Phillips’ record-breaking Geneva Watch Auction: XXIII, this May, which totaled $96.3 million and became the highest-grossing watch auction in history.
Today’s attractive distractions:
Studio West designs a “pink playhouse fantasy” in New Orleans.
Treehouse attributes define this Costa Rican villa.
Norwegian watchmaker Espen Saastad discovered a 250-year-old shipwreck filled with Chinese porcelain.
London’s wondrous new Hermès Maison Bond Street incorporates six buildings, 55 rooms, and five floors.
