Corridor reviews contemporary art and design exhibitions across Europe

A Week That Refuses to Resolve

Milan Design Week 2026 in progress. Serotonin in Brera, Gucci and Louis Vuitton installations, Miu Miu’s Literary Club, and a city that forces you to decide what counts.

By Emilio Carrara · Milan

Render of OMA's Salone Contract masterplan: a large oval LED dome over a circular stage in a Fiera Milano Rho hall, with visitors gathered around.

Salone Beyond the Chair

Something is quietly changing at Salone del Mobile. The fair still looks like a showcase of objects, but increasingly it behaves like a platform for systems.

By Emilio Carrara · Salone del Mobile. Milano, Milan

Installation view of Salone Raritas at the 64th Salone del Mobile, designed by Formafantasma.

The Room Within the Room

On Salone Raritas, the new collectible-design sector at the 64th Salone del Mobile, curated by Annalisa Rosso with booth architecture by Formafantasma. Twenty-five galleries, one long corridor, and a tonal shift.

By Katya Pranitskaya · Pavilions 9-11, Fiera Milano Rho, Milan

Next Month · 2026

May

Berlin opens the month, Venice takes over in the second week, and New York holds the third.

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Villa Beaulieu

Nomad St. Moritz 2026 at Villa Beaulieu, the renovated former Klinik Gut. A review of the fair's ninth Swiss edition, its softer register, and the galleries that made it work.

By Katya Pranitskaya · Villa Beaulieu, St. Moritz, St. Moritz

Make. Believe.

Design Miami 2025's 21st edition, curated by Glenn Adamson around the theme Make. Believe. A Nakashima bench, a Harry Nuriev scenography for Kohler, and a Seoul studio's debut.

By Emilio Carrara · Design Miami tent, Miami Beach, Miami Beach

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Art Basel Miami Beach 2025 at the Miami Beach Convention Center, 23rd edition.

Christmas Came Early

Art Basel Miami Beach 2025, reviewed. A Warhol Muhammad Ali at $18m, a $5.5m Richter in the first hour, and the first fair in two years that genuinely moved.

By Katya Pranitskaya · Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami Beach

Takashi Murakami's eight-metre inflatable octopus for Louis Vuitton, installed at the Grand Palais during Art Basel Paris 2025.

An Eight-Metre Octopus in Front of the Eiffel

Takashi Murakami's eight-metre octopus on the Champ-de-Mars, a Louis Vuitton commission for Art Basel Paris 2025's public programme, reviewed. On handbags, public sculpture, and a return to large-scale work.

By Emilio Carrara · Champ-de-Mars, Paris

Soul Garden

Design Miami/ Paris 2025 at L'hôtel de Maisons. Goyal and Tolaas's scent garden, Yves Macaux's Best Gallery Presentation, Lalanne's tortoise, and a fair two editions into maturity.

By Emilio Carrara · L'hôtel de Maisons, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris

Gerhard Richter, installation view in Hauser & Wirth's booth at Art Basel Paris 2025.

Paris Stayed

Art Basel Paris 2025 at the Grand Palais, reviewed. Mehretu at White Cube, Murakami's octopus on the Champ-de-Mars, and the fair's first edition that felt settled.

By Katya Pranitskaya · Grand Palais, Paris

Exterior of the new Fondation Cartier at 2 Place du Palais-Royal, the 1855 Grand Hôtel du Louvre transformed by Jean Nouvel with tall bay windows along the façade.

The Night Cartier Moved In

The Fondation Cartier's new home opens at 2 Place du Palais-Royal. Jean Nouvel, Haussmannian fabric, five mobile platforms, 600 works. A note from the opening night.

By Emilio Carrara · Fondation Cartier, 2 Place du Palais-Royal, Paris

Ben Brown Fine Arts' Frieze Masters 2025 booth with François-Xavier Lalanne sheep on a turfed floor.

Les Lalanne on Turf

Frieze Masters 2025 at Regent's Park, reviewed. Ben Brown's turfed Lalanne booth, a Park Seo-Bo retrospective at Johyun, and a Gabriele Münter at Hauser & Wirth that moved.

By Emilio Carrara · Regent's Park, London