{"id":576815,"date":"2026-08-06T19:14:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T19:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/576815\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T19:14:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T19:14:19","slug":"the-vitra-design-museum-opens-the-first-geoffrey-bawa-retrospective-in-two-decades-and-other-news-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/576815\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vitra Design Museum Opens the First Geoffrey Bawa Retrospective in Two Decades, and Other News. \u2013 SURFACE"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Vitra Design Museum opens the first Geoffrey Bawa retrospective in two decades.<\/p>\n

The Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein is opening the first major retrospective of Geoffrey Bawa\u2019s work in twenty years. Titled \u201cArchitecture for the Senses,\u201d the show gathers over 250 objects\u2014drawings, models, furniture, film, and photography\u2014tracing the five-decade career of the Sri Lanka-born, London-trained architect who fused modernist principles with local materials and craft. The exhibition includes new commissioned photography by Iwan Baan and immersive scenography by Lina Ghotmeh, designer of the 2023 Serpentine Pavilion. The show also highlights Bawa\u2019s collaborations with Sri Lankan artists and craftspeople, including Ena de Silva and Laki Senanayake, whose work was woven into his buildings rather than added on top of them.<\/p>\n

Guggenheim Abu Dhabi names Dr. Valerie Hillings its inaugural director.<\/p>\n

The Department of Culture and Tourism \u2013 Abu Dhabi has appointed Dr. Valerie Hillings as the inaugural Director of Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, a cornerstone of the Saadiyat Cultural District alongside the Louvre Abu Dhabi, Zayed National Museum, and teamLab Phenomena Abu Dhabi. In the role, Hillings will lead the museum\u2019s strategic direction and oversee its inaugural exhibitions ahead of its opening in the Frank Gehry-designed building. Hillings brings a long history with the project: she served as the Guggenheim\u2019s Curator and Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs for the Abu Dhabi initiative from 2009 to 2018, working on collection strategy and pre-opening programming, after five years on the Guggenheim\u2019s New York curatorial staff. Since 2018, she has directed the North Carolina Museum of Art, where she added roughly 400 works to the collection. Once open, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi will house 30 galleries across 11,600 square meters of interior space, plus 23,000 square meters of outdoor exhibition area, positioning it as one of the world\u2019s major platforms for modern and contemporary art.<\/p>\n

Daniel Arsham will partner with The Balvenie on a whisky collection and immersive performance for Frieze Seoul.<\/p>\n

Artist Daniel Arsham is collaborating with Scottish distillery The Balvenie on a new whisky collection, Dawn of Our Spirit, debuting September 1 alongside Frieze Seoul. The launch is introduced through an immersive performance directed by Arsham, drawing on the meditative process of turning barley on a malting floor, a step he observes firsthand at the distillery\u2019s Speyside site. Arsham describes the distillery as rich with sensory material, from the copper stills to the scent-laden wooden casks. The Balvenie\u2019s malt master, Kelsey McKechnie, who conceived of the collection, says Arsham\u2019s storytelling brings the distillery\u2019s malting tradition to a global audience. The project adds to Arsham\u2019s growing list of brand collaborations, including Dior, Adidas, and Rimowa, alongside his role as creative director for the Cleveland Cavaliers. Dawn of Our Spirit will later travel to New York, Shanghai, and Taipei.<\/p>\n

A new \u00c1lvaro Siza show at the Canadian Centre for Architecture draws from his archive across three cities.<\/p>\n

A new retrospective at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, titled \u201cThe fortune of the city is that it has never been perfect,\u201d follows \u00c1lvaro Siza\u2019s decades-long approach to urban intervention, drawing on the Portuguese architect\u2019s vast archive, jointly held by the CCA, Porto\u2019s Funda\u00e7\u00e3o de Serralves, and Lisbon\u2019s Museo Gulbenkian since a 2015 donation. Curated by CCA director Giovanna Borasi with Laura Aparicio Llorente, the show favors lesser-known and often unbuilt projects over Siza\u2019s canonical works, using sketches, models, and photography arranged across six rooms. The exhibition moves city by city: Siza\u2019s public housing masterplan for Quinta da Malagueira in \u00c9vora, his post-fire reconstruction plan for Lisbon\u2019s Chiado neighborhood, earthquake-recovery work in Salemi, Sicily, and housing interventions in Berlin, Venice, and The Hague. Throughout, the show argues that Siza treated the city itself as an ongoing design project, using form to work through social and civic questions, including reworking his Hague housing plans to better accommodate immigrant residents.<\/p>\n

\u201cBlazymania\u201d fuels Chanel\u2019s double-digit sales growth.<\/p>\n

Chanel\u2019s comparable revenue rose about 16 percent in the first half of 2026, according to a Bloomberg News report citing a person familiar with the privately held French luxury group\u2019s performance, outpacing publicly listed rivals. The gains are tied to creative director Matthieu Blazy\u2019s debut collections, which reached stores in March and have been credited with helping the house buck an industry-wide slowdown, one reflected in recent results from LVMH and Herm\u00e8s, whose more modest sales growth failed to reassure investors. According to Bloomberg\u2019s report, Chanel\u2019s fashion division, roughly 60 percent of total revenue, grew in line with the group average, while its watches and fine jewelry unit outperformed, posting 35 percent growth. All regions recorded gains, including China and the Middle East, with U.S. sales up more than 25 percent.<\/p>\n

A new living mycelium textile<\/a> can self-clean, renew, and almost self-repair.<\/p>\n

In Rwanda, Congolese chef Dieuveil Malonga\u2019s Culinary Innovation Village studies and prepares<\/a> food from across Africa.<\/p>\n

According to the Lyst Index, the New York Knicks cap was the hottest fashion accessory<\/a> of Q2.<\/p>\n

Aron Wiesenfeld\u2019s oil paintings convey<\/a> a magnetizing, quiet mystery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vitra Design Museum opens the first Geoffrey Bawa retrospective in two decades. The Vitra Design Museum in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[437,434,435,436,438,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-576815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}