A racing Ferrari 625/250 Testarossa takes the top honors at The Quail.
The Quail by The Peninsula, A Motorsports Gathering marked its 23rd year on the Monterey Car Week calendar with its biggest statement yet: a 1957 Ferrari 625/250 Testarossa, owned by Bruce Meyer, took home “Best of Show” from a field of more than 200 entries. Originally built for Southern California Ferrari distributor and racer John von Neumann, it notched 11 wins in 1957 before a later V12 swap extended its winning streak as a privateer racer. Meyer’s win earned the car a place in the Rolex Circle of Champions, along with an engraved Oyster Perpetual Datejust 36. Elsewhere on the show field, honors went to a 1965 Porsche 911 (Spirit of The Quail), a 1962 Lincoln Continental (Hagerty Drivers Foundation Award), and a 1994 Lamborghini Diablo VT JOTA (Magneto Editor’s Choice).
The Chinati Foundation to install 10,000 square feet of glass to protect Donald Judd’s aluminum works.
The Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas, has announced a major restoration of the Artillery Sheds, the pair of former military structures Donald Judd transformed to house his 100 untitled works in mill aluminum. Located on the grounds of the decommissioned Fort D. A. Russell, the buildings were originally reconfigured by Judd in the 1980s, who replaced their garage doors with walls of windows and swapped their flat roofs for vaulted galvanized iron ones, nearly doubling the structures’ height to accommodate the meter-high aluminum cubes made between 1982 and 1986. The upcoming renovation will address roofs, gutters, and façades, and includes installing more than 10,000 square feet of energy-efficient glass to better protect the works from extreme desert weather.
Brussels’ flower carpet reimagines Hokusai’s Great Wave in 750,000 dahlias.
Brussels’ Grand-Place transformed into a monumental floral canvas as the city’s Flower Carpet event marked its 24th edition. The 2026 installation celebrated 160 years of diplomatic friendship between Belgium and Japan, with artist Hiro Sugiyama designing a square-sized tribute to ukiyo-e master Katsushika Hokusai. Titled Neo Hokusai, the composition reimagined Hokusai’s The Great Wave Off Kanagawa from his Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji series, rendered in vivid magenta, vermilion, and yellow across more than 750,000 fresh dahlias. The arrangement spanned nearly 14,000 square feet, with flowers covering roughly 80 percent of the design and ornate framing patterns completing the scene. This year’s flowers came through a partnership with Bloemencorso Loenhout, a flower parade with 75 years of history in the northern Belgian city of Loenhout, whose own event kicks off September 12.
Leading artists rally to fund DRC’s Picha Art and Research Center.
Facing rising costs and shrinking international support, the artist-led Picha Art and Research Center in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has launched an urgent GoFundMe campaign, aiming to raise €10,000 to cover operational costs and its upcoming ninth Lubumbashi Biennale in October. So far the campaign has drawn more than €6,000, with donations from figures including incoming Zeitz MOCAA artistic director Elvira Dyangani Ose, artist Francis Alÿs, and Sharjah Biennial 17 co-curator Paula Nascimento. Founded in 2008, Picha has become one of the DRC’s most vital art platforms, running exhibitions, residencies, and training programs alongside the Lubumbashi Biennale, one of Africa’s key biennials.
David Shrigley announces his first U.K. museum show since 2012.
British artist David Shrigley will bring his signature deadpan humor into direct dialogue with 17th-century Dutch and Flemish painting in a major solo show at Dulwich Picture Gallery. Running from May 25 to September 5, 2027, the exhibition will pair never-before-seen commissions with masterpieces by Jan Steen, Rembrandt van Rijn, David Teniers the Younger, and others, marking Shrigley’s first U.K. public museum solo show since his 2012 Hayward Gallery retrospective. The exhibition aims to trace how artists across centuries have used comedy to observe everyday behavior, drawing works from the gallery’s own collection alongside loans from major U.K. institutions.
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