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An apparel and home decor collection from this year's Artists in Residence, Claudia Pettway Charley and Loretta Pettway Bennett

From a 20,000-square-foot glass restaurant to a geometric concrete home with a catwalk for a car collection, the Medellín–based practice refuses to conform

Aspen Art Museum's 21st annual ArtCrush gala and auction raised more than $4 million in support of the institution's free exhibitions and educational programming, while continuing an artist-led model that returns a percentage of each donated work's value to participating artists. Held in partnership with Christie's and led by Chairman of Post-War and Contemporary Art Sara Friedlander, the live auction featured works by Kelly Akashi, Xinyi Cheng, George Condo, Sayre Gomez, Camille Henrot, Keith Mayerson, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Ding Shilun, and Adrián Villar Rojas, among others, all exhibited at the museum ahead of the sale. The evening also honored Villar Rojas with the 2026 Lewis Family Art Award. His expansive exhibition, “First Gods, Lost Animals”—a multidisciplinary exploration of world-building, ecology, and post-Anthropocene futures—remains on view at the museum through April 11, 2027.

Singapore–based Castlery has welcomed Tan France, star of Netflix's Queer Eye and Next in Fashion , as the global furniture brand's first design collaborator.

The world's most comprehensive film festival dedicated to architecture and design, the aptly titled Architecture & Design Film Festival (ADFF), will commence its 2026–2027 season on October 12.

On September 16, Swedish recording artist Lykke Li will appear onstage in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium for a special performance of her 2026 album, The Afterparty.

In 2020, Noa Santos founded the international interdisciplinary architecture, interior design, and landscape studio NAINOA, which he currently helms as CEO and principal designer. Santos derives all design decisions from a perspective bridging observations of the environment with a desire to elevate a client's lived experience. From the exquisite, art-filled environs of an Aspen guest house to the marriage of home and hospitality in a Costa Rican hotel, Santos and his team orchestrate every touch, from the intimacy of a guest room to the embrace of its surrounding landscape.

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Five-time Grand Slam champion Jannik Sinner may not be the first person one expects to design a wellness program for ultra-luxury ocean travel brand Explora Journeys.