Wallace Chan follows his Venice Biennale debut with a spectacle at Shanghai’s Long Museum.
Hong Kong-based artist and jeweler Wallace Chan has opened “Vessels of Other World” at Shanghai’s Long Museum, running Saturday through October 25. The show, a culmination of Chan’s 50-year practice, follows a parallel exhibition he presented during June’s Venice Biennale. The exhibition centers on two colossal titanium sculptures, each roughly 10 meters tall. Rebirth, built from thousands of titanium parts and chromed adornments, draws on Olea Sancta, oils used in Catholic blessing rites, reimagined as a mechanical structure adorned with zodiac signs, warped clocks and molten faces. A companion piece, Birth, is a rotating shrine showcasing Chan’s signature Wallace Cut carving technique.
Jacolby Satterwhite receives the Artists Living with Cancer Grant.
The Rema Hort Mann Fund (RHMF) and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation have named the first-ever recipient of the Artists Living With Cancer Grant: Jacolby Satterwhite, the conceptual and digital artist who has lived with cancer since childhood. The unrestricted $25,000 award will be presented at RHMF’s thirtieth anniversary gala this October. Satterwhite, who grew up in Columbia, South Carolina, was diagnosed with bone cancer at age twelve. Since then, he has built a wide-ranging practice spanning 3D animation, sculpture, performance, and video, with work shown at the Walker Art Center, the Gwangju Biennale, and, in 2023, projected across the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Great Hall as part of his installation A Metta Prayer. His work is held in the collections of MoMA, the Whitney, and Helsinki’s Kiasma. The grant is designed to support New York City–area visual artists undergoing cancer treatment, covering costs like medical bills, caregiving, studio rent, and housing.
MoMA celebrates Marcel Duchamp’s 139th birthday with a chess match.
The Museum of Modern Art will host a simultaneous chess match on July 28 in honor of Marcel Duchamp, timed to what would have been the artist’s 139th birthday and staged alongside its major Duchamp retrospective. Grandmaster Susan Polgar will face 50 opponents from the art world at once, circulating between boards in a demanding format known as a simul. The match takes place in MoMA’s Agnes Gund Garden Lobby and is open to visitors with museum admission. The event revives a similar simultaneous match held during MoMA’s 1973–74 Duchamp retrospective. MoMA’s “Marcel Duchamp” is the museum’s first retrospective devoted to the artist in more than fifty years, bringing together over 300 works.
Manhattan DA returns three antiquities to Mexico, including objects seized from the Met’s collection.
The office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg Jr. has repatriated three antiquities valued at $160,000 to Mexico, including one seized from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The returns stem from multiple investigations into illegal trafficking networks, among them the case that led to the conviction of Eugene Alexander last summer. The object recovered from the Met is a Standing Male Figure dating to roughly 1,00–400 C.E., previously sold by New York’s Merrin Gallery and later donated to the museum. Also returned: an Xochipala Bowl from around 1,200–900 B.C.E., seized from Merrin Gallery in December, and an Aztec obsidian micro-blade core dating to roughly 1,000–1,500, seized from Alexander in October. According to the DA’s office, the repatriation is its sixth to Mexico, bringing the total returned to 52 antiquities valued at more than $13 million.
Tariff uncertainty pushes Switzerland to extend watchmaking aid.
Switzerland has extended its short-time working compensation scheme for watchmakers to two years, effective on October 7, after initially capping it at one year and later 18 months. The furlough-style program, reimbursing employers 80% of wages lost to reduced hours, was reintroduced in early 2024 as demand slumped following a strong post-pandemic boom. Swiss watch exports fell 16.5% overall in August, and 23.9% in the U.S., following a tariff-driven export rush earlier in the year. The Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry Exports (FH) described the results as “very negative” across all categories and markets. The government cited weak labor market forecasts and uncertainty from U.S. tariffs in effect since August 7, 2025 as reasons for the extension. By mid-2024, roughly 2,000 workers across 40 companies in the Jura region alone were enrolled, with the broader Swiss watch industry employing around 65,000 people nationwide.
A Victorian home in rural Ireland becomes a guesthouse rooted in the land.
Argentine contemporary artist Tomás Saraceno’s largest exhibition in Germany opens at Haus der Kunst.
At 78 degrees north, Snøhetta redesigns the world’s Northernmost restaurant.
Alfredo Sauce now has a Pantone color.
