Photo: Villa Necchi Campiglio.

MILAN—Tucked into the garden of Villa Necchi Campiglio in Milan, surrounded by manicured hedges and filtered light, rests a figure barely noticed: The Sleeper, a...
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Text by Julian Octavia

Pol Taburet, detail from Desire and stones, 2025, acrylics, alcohol-based paint and oil pastel on canvas, 250 x 190 cm (98 3/8 x 74 3/4 in). Courtesy of the artist and Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brussels, Paris, New York. Photo credit: Romain Darnaud.

MADRID—French-Guadeloupean artist Pol Taburet makes his Spanish debut in Oh, If Only I Could Listen, a site-specific exhibition staged inside Madrid’s historic Pabellón de los...
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Text by Kristine Able

Exhibition view, Stanislava Kovalčíková, ret rie vers, at Emalin London.

LONDON—Slovak artist Stanislava Kovalcikova is redefining figurative painting in a way that feels both deeply personal and historically loaded. Her latest exhibition, ret rie vers,...
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Text by Liora Ashwood

Bobbie Dreier, Anni Albers, and Ted Dreier, Lake George, New York, 1935. Photo negative: Josef Albers.

Chelsea—Anni Albers understood that weaving was more than the sum of its threads. A pioneer of considering textiles to be high art, she navigated the...
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Text by Aphra Natley

Painting by Maaike Schoorel

Located in the stunning, spaceship-like expo of Messeplatz, Art Basel faces Design Miami, another expo for the rich and curious, displaying furniture and aesthetic products...
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Text by Madina Tulakova

Painting by Aloise Corbaz

VENICE—The Biennale, Stranieri ovunque, is a mirror this year. "You judge, you gossip, you wash it all down with Prosecco. Have you seen the Uzbekistan...
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Text by Simona Alberti

Photo by IBM

Textile art, or as Anni Albers said, "the poetry of materials," has had many lives.
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Text by Pina Lomb

Franco Maria Ricci in 1984 at the launch of FMR U.S.A. at the New York Public Library.

Caverns were probably the first labyrinthine structures human beings came into contact with, in a distant past. And I, too, rummaged through my own past,...
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Text by Franco Maria Ricci and John Hudson White