Reviews

Nomad St. Moritz 2025 at the former Klinik Gut, reviewed. Pergay tables in a patient dining room, a Neapolitan pop-up in the old hospital canteen, and a fair that used its building as the point.

Design Miami/ Paris 2024 at L'hôtel de Maisons, reviewed. Louis Vuitton's Campana debut, a million-euro Prouvé sale, and a room of Jean Touret that won the week.

Art Basel Paris's debut at the refurbished Grand Palais. Under a glass nave, with 195 galleries and a Premise sector that mattered, Paris finally had a fair that belonged to it.

Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana, spread across twelve municipalities, reviewed. The venues did most of the heavy lifting. A few rooms addressed Catalonia and those were the ones worth the trip.

Craft x Tech's Curio at Design Miami/ Basel paired six international designers with Tohoku artisans. Sabine Marcelis with Kawatsura-shikki, Ini Archibong with Tsugaru-nuri. A review.

A Basel of quieter sales and better hanging. The speculative middle got taken down to the basement. Unlimited still delivered.

The Brussels gallery Objects with Narratives debuted at Design Miami/ Basel with a solo show by Ben Storms. The floor of the booth was under a shallow layer of water. Everything seemed to be floating. Most of it wasn't.

Design Miami/ Basel's 18th edition opened with a Pesce memorial in the entrance hall. Inside, Ben Storms flooded his floor, Maxime Flatry made a booth of air, and Craft x Tech brought fifty coats of lacquer from Akita.

The Holy See's pavilion at the 60th Biennale, With My Eyes, was staged inside the Casa di Reclusione Femminile on Giudecca. Pope Francis came. So did a small and necessary collapse of the usual critical distance.

On Archie Moore's Australian Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale, the first to win the Golden Lion. 65,000 years of family, chalked onto a wall that will be painted over in November.

Notes from the 60th Venice Biennale. Mataaho on the ceiling, Archie Moore in chalk, the Holy See inside a prison, and the long argument about whether "foreigner" can carry this much weight.

Bawwaba at Art Dubai 2024, under Emiliano Valdes, themed Sanación. A review centred on Mirna Bamieh's working Palestinian kitchen at NIKA Project Space.