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Tributes, Reforms and Everything Happening as Art Basel Week Begins (June 15 – July 6, 2026)

Editor's note Hello Prazzler, Art Basel opens Thursday. The art world has already moved to Switzerland. The rest of us are still processing everything that came before. There was a lot. Venice: Belarus Free Theatre built an unofficial pavilion the government in Minsk could never sanction. Tori Wrånes, Simina Oprescu, Marcus Jansen, and Johannes Ehemann are all in conversation with PRAZZLE. Evan Murphy's I.D. portrait series debuts at the Haiti Pavilion. Beyond Venice: Hamburg's 9th Triennial...

Prazzle Culture Dispatch Weekly

View in Browser Hey Prazzlers, Another week, another dispatch. Here's what's worth your time. Opportunities on the table: A $10,000 grant for women photographers (Flickr x Black Women Photographers) and Fondazione Prada's 2026 Film Fund lead the pack, alongside open calls from the Lucie Foundation and Platform Dalí. Deadlines below, applications open now. On view: Jesús Rafael Soto's towering Pénétrable BBL Jaune lands outdoors at Serpentine Galleries. Keith Haring gets a third dimension at...

Prazzle Culture Weekly Dispatch

View in Browser Hey Prazzlers, Welcome to this week's edition of The Culture Dispatch! Starting off strongly with exciting events around the globe, we have Found Memories; Channatip Chanvipava's first solo debut showing at Ames Yavuz Gallery, Théo Mercier's monumental Fossil Opera at the Le Voyage à Nantes Festival, and Hollywood, from the legendary Richard Avedon, exploring the photographer's intrigue with the industry at Gagosian, and this is just for starters! Exhibitions take center...

Welcome to this week's edition of The Culture Dispatch! It's a big week. Rencontres d'Arles opens today for its 57th edition, Paris Haute Couture Week runs through Wednesday, and the Hamptons Fine Art Fair opens in Southampton. Three events, one week — th

View in Browser Hey Prazzlers, Welcome to this week's edition of The Culture Dispatch! It's a big week. Rencontres d'Arles opens for its 57th edition, Paris Haute Couture Week held this week, and the Hamptons Fine Art Fair opened in Southampton yesterday. Three events, one week - the calendar is full. On the exhibitions side: Ai Weiwei's most ambitious Northern England show opens at Aviva Studios in Manchester, Anicka Yi continues at Storm King Art Center in New York, and Maggie Otieno's...

High-angle aerial view of a massive black-and-white land art mural by Saype at Boom Island Park, depicting two intertwined hands painted on the grass. The Mississippi River and downtown Minneapolis skyline form the background under a partly cloudy sky.

Editor's note Hello Prazzler, It's hot, and we haven't stopped talking about it in the studio this week. France recorded its hottest day on record in June. An estimated 2,000 people have died from the heat. Germany hit 40°C. Hamburg artist Lene Markusen's film at the FIRE Exhibition asks whether our cities are going through menopause. Fair question, if you ask us. Elsewhere: the Obama Presidential Center opened on Juneteenth, with Njideka Akunyili Crosby's portrait in the lobby. Pace Gallery...

A wide-angle installation shot of the vibrant Haas Brothers "Uncanny Valley" museum exhibition, featuring whimsical, brightly colored creature sculptures and a large patterned mushroom on a purple platform against bold yellow walls.

View in Browser Hey Prazzlers, Welcome to this week's edition of The Culture Dispatch! This week, Manifesta 16 Ruhr is in full swing across Bochum, Duisburg, Essen, and Gelsenkirchen, transforming twelve former post-war church buildings into spaces for contemporary art and community. In New York, Céleste Boursier-Mougenot fills the Park Avenue Armory with sound generated entirely by ceramic bowls floating on water, and MoMA opens Architects of Liberation, examining modernist architecture...

A large, curved subterranean light installation called "The Dome" by James Turrell, featuring a vast circular sky-blue ceiling. At the top left of the dome, a glowing, vibrant pink circular light mimics a sun or celestial body. A low, curved white concret

View in Browser Hey Prazzlers, Welcome to this week's edition of The Culture Dispatch! After more than a decade in development, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum has unveiled James Turrell's As Seen Below – The Dome, a Skyspace, his most ambitious to date and the largest ever realised within a museum. In Berlin, Nigerian artist Emeka Ogboh transforms the Neue Nationalgalerie into a live sound installation with Danfotronics on July 2nd. On the exhibitions side: Barbara Hepworth's Hepworth in Colour opens...

A vibrant digital art print by Yinka Ilori featuring a central four-petaled green shape resembling a stylized clover or flower, layered over a bright yellow background. The green shape is filled with a dense, repeating pattern of small circular motifs. At

View in Browser Hey Prazzlers, Welcome to this week's edition of The Culture Dispatch! Art Basel is ongoing in Basel, bringing together 289 premier galleries from 42 countries for one of the biggest weeks on the art calendar. If you're there, our guides to the best gallery booths and other events worth experiencing have you covered. We're also on the ground. Please reach out if you would like to collaborate. On the exhibitions side: Ruth Asawa's retrospective continues at the Guggenheim...

Fujiko Nakaya  'FUJIKO NAKAYA'  2 Rue de Viarmes, 75001 Paris, France  Bourse de Commerce, Paris

View in Browser Hey Prazzlers, Welcome to this week's edition of The Culture Dispatch! 3 Days of Design closes today in Copenhagen. If you're there, make the most of the final hours with our guide. On the exhibitions side: Anish Kapoor at the Venice Biennale, Fujiko Nakaya at Bourse de Commerce in Paris, Kimathi Mafafo at Kristin Hjellegjerde in Berlin, and Tetsuya Ishida opens at Gagosian Paris. Also worth noting: JR's Pont Neuf installation was postponed following damage, but Perrotin Paris...

'FIRE. From the Cosmos to the Commons'  Willy-Brandt-Straße 60, 20457 Hamburg, Germany  St. Nikolai Memorial, Hamburg

View in Browser Hey Prazzlers, Welcome to this week's edition of The Culture Dispatch! June is here and we are excited to share the offerings of the art world. This week, the Triennial of Photography Hamburg opens its 9th edition across eight major institutions, while London Gallery Weekend brings together 120+ galleries across the city for its sixth edition. On the exhibitions side: In the wake of his passing, Julio Le Parc's exhibition opens next week and Hamburg's St. Nikolai Memorial's...