The Bibliothèque National de France is honoring Georges Perec with an exhibition marking the ninetieth anniversary of his birth, which captures the restless ingenuity of a writer who turned play into a creative discipline.
The Zurbarán exhibition at the Louvre is a revelation, at least to me, because it is the first time that I’ve seen such a large selection of his paintings in one show.
How to stay smart in the age of AI. Navier-Stokes. Complex brain waves. Europe's summer of wildfires. Weeping willows. Rem Koolhaas. Jürgen Habermas. Ali Smith. Philip Glass. John Maynard Keynes. And more.
"Between Selves," the Emil Ferris exhibition at the Cartoonmuseum Basel, is an absolute pleasure: it assembles a wealth of original drawings, several never before published, alongside preparatory sketches and objects drawn from the artist's personal archive.
For "Testimonies to the Near Future" Cao Fei has transformed the Kunstmuseum Basel Gegenwart into an immersive installation in the form of a city. It is definitely one of the must-see shows of the year.
The 2026 Fields and Abacus medals. Europe's record heatwave. Why Europe is burning. Einstein's miracle year. Joyce's politics. The Chauvet cave paintings. The bread in Europe. Ice cream. A new color. Cao Fei. Park Chan-wook. And more.
The Kerry James Marshall retrospective “The Histories” received rave reviews when it was on show at the Royal Academy in London last year. It is indeed an excellent exhibition and I might go and see it again when it travels to Paris this autumn.