The Artful Life: 9 Things Galerie Editors Love This Week

1. Contemporary Art Project “Komorebi” Launches at The St. Regis Venice

2. Longines Introduces Fresh Options for the Iconic Dolce Vita Watch

The rectangular-face Dolce Vita watch has been an official stalwart of the Longines brand since it was officially introduced almost 30 years ago, but its design DNA goes back much further: the shape and lines go all the way back to a 1927 creation. The timepiece is getting a new look for summer 2026, with updated wristband and dial choices. There are three saturated tones of deep red, navy, and olive to choose from for the alligator strap. Three dial styles can be mixed and matched with the Italian-inspired leather hues. All three feature geometric patterned flinqué surface, with metallic numeral shades of dark blue, rose gold, and silver. —Rena Gross

3. Robert Stilin Spotlights Alessio Boni’s Alchemical Photographs

Robert Stilin first encountered photographer Alessio Boni more than 15 years ago through mutual friends and quickly became an admirer. “His work is very balanced and about shape and form, and yet, at the same time, it has an edge and a spark,” says the designer, who owns several photographs by Boni and selected him for one of the first solo exhibitions at his new gallery in Manhattan. On view through a curated selection of new, archival, and multimedia works, the presentation offers a compelling look at the artist’s evolving practice. Following a successful career in fashion photography, Boni has embraced an increasingly experimental approach that merges digital source material with analog techniques and chance interventions.  

Each composition begins with imagery drawn from Boni’s personal archive, iPhone snapshots, and public-domain records. He prints these fragments on ordinary office paper before immersing them in shallow trays of water infused with pigments, ink, and paint. Under natural sunlight, he then photographs the transformed surfaces with a 35mm film camera, producing richly layered images that hover between figuration and abstraction. “Photography doesn’t give you a chance to use your hands much besides clicking the camera, whereas before you could spend hours in the darkroom,” Boni explains. Veils of pigment and light drift across classical male torsos, mist-shrouded trees, and architectural details, while the grain of the film lends a tactile quality that echoes the gallery’s trove of vintage furnishings. The exhibition will be on view by appointment at Robert Stilin Gallery starting June 11. —Ryan Waddoups

4. Champalimaud Designs New River Cottages at Hudson Valley Hideaway Troutbeck

Situated on 250 bucolic acres in New York’s Dutchess County, Troutbeck has long lured creative types who are drawn to the romantic retreat for its peaceful surroundings and legacy as a refuge for poets, naturalists, and other literati. New this summer, the property has added four one- and two-bedroom River Cottages overlooking the Webutuck River in Armenia. Like the rest of the charming getaway, the interiors reflect the distinct style of Champalimaud, who layered the accommodations conceived by architects Stonehill Taylor with artisan touches, including ceramic lamps by Connecticut studio Dumais Made and four-poster king-size beds by Ian Ingersoll which are dressed in Frette linens. Antiques, tiled gas fireplaces, and artwork from Thompson Street Studio add to the lived-in atmosphere, cultivating a home away from home ambiance. However, with decadent wellness programming and spa treatments at the Barns, locavore cuisine at the on-site restaurant, art exhibitions, and a dreamy landscape manicured by Reed + Hilderbrand, Troutbeck also offers plenty of reasons to get out and explore.—Jill Sieracki

5. Rare Presentation of Van Gogh’s Sunflowers Goes on View in Philadelphia 

This month, the Philadelphia Museum of Art unveiled a rare opportunity to view two of Vincent van Gogh’s celebrated sunflower paintings side-by-side. The installation, titled “Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: A Symphony in Blue and Yellow,” features two works from a collection the artist created while renting a room from Paul Gauguin in Arles. Van Gogh had intended to decorate the home with his colorful sunflower series. The first piece, Sunflowers, (1888), is currently on loan from the National Gallery in London, while the second, Sunflowers, (1889), is from the Philadelphia Museum’s collection. On view now through October 11, the installation offers a fresh look at the artist’s fascination with flowers and his brushwork. “Van Gogh imagined creating ‘a symphony in blue and yellow’ with a dozen paintings of sunflowers,” says Jennifer Thompson, the Gisela and Dennis Alter Curator of European Painting, Curator of the John G. Johnson Collection, and Head of European Art. “While he never painted that many canvases of his favorite flower, the exhibition will offer an unparalleled chance to study two Sunflowers and consider how he used color and brushstrokes to such expressive effect.”—Alexandria Sillo

6. Le Jardin du Clarence Adds a Layer of Bliss to Legendary Parisian Restaurant

A baking summer day is a strenuous experience even for those blessed to be in the City of Light, and Le Clarence knows this. Ever attentive to customer needs, the restaurant has added a bucolic element to its 19th-century Parisian mansion home. Le Jardin du Clarence, a garden café nestled away from the hubbub of the nearby Champs-Élysées corner, offers three teatime seatings per day for no more than 16 guests at a time. The elegant, greenery-ornamented setting offers a Mediterranean-themed menu of petite bites as well as seasonal desserts, a specially curated selection of wines from parent company Domaine Clarence Dillon’s epic cellars, and refreshing non-alcoholic beverages. Enticing savory options such as Courgette Flower Tempura, Tomato Gazpacho & Bluefin Tuna, and Arancini Mozzarella di Bufala can be followed by Black Fruit Pavlova, or perhaps Raspberry and Jasmine cake to share. Le Jardin du Clarence will be open June 2 through early August, Tuesday through Saturday, 3:30 to 7:30 p.m, at Le Clarence, 31, avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt.—Rena Gross

7. David Yurman Celebrates America’s Semiquincentennial with One-of-a-Kind Liberty Cable Bracelet 

To mark America’s semiquincentennial, David Yurman has introduced a one-of-a-kind Liberty Cable Bracelet, exclusively designed for The American Friends of Versailles “Legacy of Light” auction. The partnership between David Yurman and The American Friends of Versailles honors the enduring relationship between the U.S. and France, and will see proceeds from the sale go toward the restoration of the Salon de Diane at Versailles. The iconic bracelet, which draws inspiration from the Statue of Liberty crown, comprises over 2,380 diamonds set in 18K white gold and totals over 25 carats. The special edition of the Liberty Cable Bracelet was introduced at an intimate cocktail reception at David Yurman’s Paris flagship this month.—A.S.

8. Mickalene Thomas Debuts a Dazzling Body of Work in Detroit

For two decades, Mickalene Thomas has built a visceral universe of black women stretched across richly patterned rooms, their curves traced in rhinestones, their odalisque poses lifted from Manet, Ingres, and Matisse, and handed to women those painters never imagined. In “Beneath the Moonlight,” Thomas retains her signature rhinestones, collages, spliced photographic planes, and fractured fields of color. This time, however, the protagonists are men. One nude male reclines in a red headwrap behind a black agave plant, every contour beaded with light. A shirtless young man cocks his hip in multicolored trousers, blue painter’s tape still stuck to the surface as if she stepped away mid-collage. Another lounges in red tights atop a tower of vintage televisions. Thomas renders these men with the languor, glamor, eroticism, and unbothered self-possession that art history has typically reserved for women, in turn treating masculinity as something more fluid, lush, vulnerable, and theatrical, something open to reinvention. The show marks her debut at The Shepherd, the century-old Romanesque church in Detroit that Library Street Collective transformed into an arts center, complete with a Tony Hawk-designed skatepark on the grounds. It follows her acclaimed run at the Grand Palais in Paris and runs through August 23 at The Shepard in Detroit, Michigan. —Gogo Taubman

9. Aspen Studio Rowland+Broughton Imagines Chic Murano Glassware for NasonMoretti

The Aspen architecture and interiors firm launched by husband and wife John Rowland and Sarah Broughton crafts refreshing spaces that offer a pared-back version of alpine vernacular elevated with a delicate touch of Italian artisanship. That unique vision made the duo an inspired collaborator with renowned Murano glassmakers NasonMoretti. The new Alpine Meadow collection draws color inspiration from Colorado’s wildflowers, frozen lakes, and mountainous terrain, then uses that rich palette to transform mouth-blown tumblers, flutes, wine glasses, and highballs. Looking to the NasonMoretti archives, the Rowland+Broughton principals reimagined long-standing styles, including revisiting molds not used in over 80 years; however rendered in small batches with undulating ribbons of scarlet and marigold, coated in glistening snow white, or embellished with visual waves of texture, these classic forms look charming and festive for modern-day entertaining.—J.S.