Cartier: Style and History

The legendary "jeweler of kings" puts its greatest pieces on display at Paris' Grand Palais

“Cartier: Style and History,” is a unique show currently on display at the newly renovated Salon d’Honneur within Paris’ Grand Palais, which tells the story of French luxury label Cartier (known as “jeweler to kings”). The exhibition includes approximately 600 pieces—most of them from the company collection but also lent by illustrious owners—including famous items such as Queen Elizabeth’s tiara (worn by Kate Middleton at …

Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined

We speak with curator Kate Goodwin on transforming London's Royal Academy of Arts into a sensorial spatial experience

Over this past month, London’s distinguished Royal Academy of Arts (RA) witnessed large-scale preparations for one of their most highly anticipated shows, “Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined.” The RA’s traditional, Beaux-Arts style gallery rooms (the walls of which have traditionally accommodated world class art tours) now enclose a new wave of interactive work, exclusively designed for the RA, that reimagines architecture’s potential for expression. The RA’s …

Ferran Adrià: Notes on Creativity

A look inside the complex mind of the world's most innovative chef

If you read Ferran Adri’s explanation of his origins at elBulli, the renowned chef humbly explains that it was simply chance which determined his career. While destiny may have been the impetus for his place in the kitchen, the new exhibition at NYC’s Drawing Center, “Ferran Adri: Notes on Creativity,” makes it boldly clear it’s Adri’s profound mind that turned the Spanish seaside restaurant into …