Reviews

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.

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.

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.

Frieze London 2025, reviewed. A single-work booth at Sadie Coles, the Focus section doing its job, and a fair that feels stabilised after three difficult years.

The Centre Pompidou closes on 22 September 2025 for a five-year renovation. A note from the plaza, the last public duty of a piazza-with-escalators.

Art Basel's 56th edition: Katharina Grosse spray-painting the Messeplatz, Nicola Turner's horsehair sculpture in Unlimited, Miriam Cahn at Meyer Riegger, and Parcours crossing the river.

The 2025 Serpentine Pavilion by Marina Tabassum opens 6 June. Four wooden capsules, one kinetic, a translucent acrylic skin, and a first Serpentine by a Bangladeshi architect.

Inside Santa Maria Ausiliatrice, the Vatican handed its 2025 Architecture Biennale pavilion to a working restoration crew. The artwork was the building becoming itself, slowly, for six months.

Andrea Faraguna's Heatwave, the Kingdom of Bahrain's Golden Lion–winning pavilion at the 2025 Architecture Biennale, cooled its visitors by ten degrees with no power source beyond the building itself. A review.

Carlo Ratti's Intelligens, with the Giardini's Central Pavilion shut for renovation, pushed the 19th Architecture Biennale out across the city. The show recovered where the national pavilions took over.

Bilna'es at Sharjah Biennial 16 — Adam HajYahia's 'Speaking with the dead' turned a set of Al Qasimiyah classrooms into a listening room, anchored by a vinyl compilation drawing on the platform's Palestinian and international music catalogue.

Sharjah Biennial 16, to carry, reviewed. Five curators, 17 venues, almost 200 participants. Hoor Al Qasimi's five-curator model as a working method rather than a tagline.