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Superblue, the experiential art venture cofounded in 2020 by Pace CEO Marc Glimcher and former Pace London president Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst, has landed in India for the first time, with a sprawling nine-work exhibition of immersive installations at Mumbai’s Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre (NMACC). Titled “Second Nature,” the show opened at NMACC’s four-story Art House on July 3 and runs through January 10, 2027. Curated by Dent-Brocklehurst, the company’s cofounder and CEO, alongside head of curatorial Margot Mottaz, the show features large-scale installations by teamLab, A.A.Murakami, Simon Heijdens and Es Devlin, among others. The installations probe the increasingly porous boundaries between humans, technology, and the natural world, tackling digital identity, real-time data, and the passage of time. While Superblue built its reputation on permanent, ticketed venues of its own, like those in Miami and London, “Se...

Art fairs may have started out as trade shows for dealers to sell each other their inventory, but they have long since become major events in the art world’s attention economy, zhuzhed up with public art commissions and intellectual dressings, including elaborate programs of public talks and film screenings, as well as plain old fun events like concerts. (As I wrote in 2020 , the Armory Show even once offered a museum-style audio guide.)  The public programming for the upcoming edition of Frieze Seoul this September includes a citywide hunt for thousands of custom-made artist’s coins, along with films, talks, music and special projects. The fair’s fifth edition (September 2–5) features more than 125 galleries from over 30 countries, and takes place at the COEX convention center in the posh Gangnam neighborhood. “The program we are presenting this year is built on the belief that a fair should be more than what happens inside its walls—it should be felt ac...

Rod Heeps was a speed merchant and national sprint champion and a prolific try scoring wing or centre in Wellington club rugby and for Wellington and the All Blacks, whose career spanned the latter part of the 1950s and the early 1960s. Heeps’ topflight career wasn’t long, but it left a lasting impact. He still...

If you ever find yourself in serious trouble on a vessel in the middle of the North Atlantic, there’s a good chance Canada and Portugal would end up working together to rescue you. That partnership is now formal. On July 13, officials from Canada’s Department of National Defence and Portugal’s Ministry of National Defence signed a Memorandum of Understanding on search and rescue cooperation. The agreement itself is straightforward in purpose: Canada and Portugal are each responsible for search and rescue across vast, adjacent stretches of ocean. Canada’s zone is coordinated out of Halifax, Portugal’s out of the Azores. Those zones border one another in one of the most demanding maritime environments in the world. “Search and rescue in the North Atlantic depends on well trained people, good equipment, trust, interoperability and enduring relationships with allies and partners,” Lieutenant-General Steve Boivin, Commander, Canadian Joint Operati...

Brady Lum, former chief operating officer at Atlanta’s High Museum of Art, pleaded guilty on Monday to a federal charge of theft. Lum “pilfered more than $600,000 from the museum by doctoring invoices and approving transactions for personal purchases,” says an announcement from the Justice Department.  “Over several years, Lum deceptively plundered the southeast’s premier museum of visual art, embezzling more than half a million dollars,” said US Attorney Theodore S. Hertzberg in the announcement. “Criminals like Lum who steal from institutions that receive taxpayer money to serve the public will face prison time for their thievery and be compelled to repay their ill-gotten gains.” Lum served in his post from 2019 until he resigned amid a probe in 2025, and was responsible for overseeing the museum’s operational and financial activities. He repeatedly purchased non-business items and services for himself, says the Justice Department, including an expe...

The two prime suspects in the infamous 2025 Louvre jewel heist claimed they were recruited by a “mysterious sponsor,” according to statements made to Paris judicial authorities that were published by Le Monde over the weekend. Arrested one week after the robbery and indicted on charges of “organized gang robbery,” Abdoulaye N., 40, and Ghelamallah A., 36, remained silent for months in pre-trial detention. In June, however, they appeared before investigating judges and, for the first time, offered an expanded account of the theft of the French Crown Jewels from the museum’s Apollo Gallery. According to the men, they were hired two or three days before the crime by a sponsor whom they do not name. That sponsor is reportedly still sought by police.  The alleged mastermind reportedly sent the pair a video filmed inside the Apollo Gallery, showing the royal jewels on display, along with concise instructions: break the gallery’s windows and retrieve the j...