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Hong Kong Signs Five-Year Agreement to Keep Hosting Art Basel Fair

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Hong Kong may be halfway through Mega 8, the city’s new name for its months-long lineup of major arts, culture, and sporting events, but the undoubted highlight is this week’s Art Basel Hong Kong. The fair has become a must-attend for locals and a major draw for international visitors, with attendance reaching 80,400 in 2024 and 86,500 last year. As such, it is no surprise that the city has signed a new agreement with Art Basel to ensure it remains the region’s sole host for another five years. Rosanna Law, the special administrative region’s culture secretary, announced the deal on Wednesday, which calls for Art Basel to expand the fair in both scale and impact. “We will actively complement the Art Basel fair with top-tier cultural performances and Hong Kong’s mega events, so that attending collectors and art appreciators can experience our city’s unique cultural atmosphere and its charms,” she said , according to Radio Television Hong Kong. While Law confirmed that the fair will ...
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Canada Hosts Charter Negotiations for New Allied Defence Financing Institution

Representatives from eighteen countries gathered in Montreal on March 23 to begin drafting the charter for the Defence, Security and Resilience Bank , a new multilateral institution designed to mobilize private capital for defence and security investment across allied nations. The negotiations, which ran March 23 to 26, mark the first in-person round of charter talks. Isabelle Hudon, President and CEO of the Business Development Bank of Canada, is serving as Canada’s lead negotiator. The DSRB would provide long-term, low-cost financing for defence and security initiatives, with particular focus on the capital gaps that constrain governments and industry suppliers, including small and medium-sized enterprises operating within complex, long-cycle procurement environments. The institution is designed to work alongside existing national and multilateral financing mechanisms rather than replace them. The bank’s structure is designed to address a core financing gap among NATO allies. Acco...
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Hauser & Wirth Partner Cristopher Canizares Departs to Start Artist Agency

After 16 years helping build one of the most powerful galleries in the world, Cristopher Canizares is stepping away from Hauser & Wirth to try something the art market still hasn’t quite figured out how to define: an artist management agency. The longtime partner will leave at the end of May to launch the Artist Legacy Bureau, a tightly run operation focused on long-term career strategy. He plans to work with a small group of artists—around five or six—keeping the model intentionally narrow and hands-on. Canizares announced his intention to leave just over a week ago, with the support of Hauser & Wirth president Marc Payot, who described him as a “trusted colleague” and “powerful advocate” for the gallery’s artists and program. Payot added that the gallery expects to remain in close collaboration with Canizares in his next chapter. Over more than a decade at Hauser & Wirth, Canizares cycled through roles spanning sales, artist management, and exhibition planning. What s...
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Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 120: Barry Cull

Barry Cull was Wellington’s first choice halfback for several seasons from the second half of the 1950s to the early 1960s. Cull played for the Athletic club and was a leading player and personality in Wellington club rugby throughout this time in the competition. He was known to have a swift, accurate pass and a...
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Louvre Plans Its ‘Most Ambitious’ Painting Restoration Ever: A Refresh for Rubens’s Medici Cycle

If you want to see one of Peter Paul Rubens’s beloved paintings in the Marie de’ Medici cycle, head to the Louvre before the fall. After that, these canvases, considered by some to be the high watermark of Rubens’s career, will be off view for four years. The reason they will leave the public eye for so long is a restoration project that was announced by the Louvre on Tuesday. In its release about the project, the Paris museum called the initiative “the most ambitious restoration in the history of the Department of Paintings.” Composed of 24 paintings that all hang together in one dedicated gallery, the paintings were commissioned in 1621 by Marie de’ Medici, the queen to France’s Henry IV and a member of the Italian family whose patronage shaped European art history during the time of the Renaissance and the age of Dutch and Flemish Old Masters. The paintings narrate the princess’ life, though in typically Baroque fashion, they are heightened portrayals of real events, replete with...
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Club Rugby Highlights Series: Threading the Needle

Celebrating community rugby 2016-25 in highlights. As we continue to go through our library of highlights clips, part 12 of this series for the first part of 2026 is looking at a compilation of tries that were scored from broken play or by threading through defenders on the way to the chalk zone. See below...
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15th-Century Bellini Altarpiece in Venice to Be Restored While the Public Watches

A 15th-century altarpiece by Giovanni Bellini in Venice’s vaunted Gallerie dell’Accademia will be restored behind glass—giving viewers a chance to peer in and follow the process—over a two-year period estimated to cost €500,000 (around $580,000). The work will be conducted in what the Gallerie Dell’Accademia described as “a construction site open to the public that will allow visitors to closely follow all the phases of the conservation of this masterpiece.” Painted between 1478 and the late 1480s, the so-called San Giobbe Altarpiece marks “a decisive turning point in the evolution of the Venetian altarpiece, according to the Gallerie dell-Accademia, which has undertaken the restoration in collaboration with the international non-profit Venetian Heritage. (The work’s official title, for the record: Madonna and Child Enthroned with Musician Angels and Saints Francis, John the Baptist, Job, Dominic, Sebastian, and Louis of Toulouse .) As reported in Artnet News , the altarpiece was...
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