This week, Bella Freud’s Fashion Neurosis welcomed legendary photographer Annie Leibovitz, whose career spans Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, MoMA, and portraits of everyone from Queen Elizabeth II to Kate Moss and Barack Obama. In the episode, she and Bella Freud dive into Susan Sontag, dance, and her early days shooting the Rolling Stones.

At Miami Basel, a robot zoo of tech icons grabbed the early spotlight in Beeple’s new sculptural digital series Regular Animals (2025). The project presents 10 hyper-detailed robotic creatures, each bearing an eerily familiar face atop a four-legged machine. Corralled in a pen, the bots roam around with built-in cameras, capturing, processing, and yes, pooping out images as they go.

After seven years shaping Loewe’s global image, Charlie Smith is leaving for UK tech firm Nothing. He worked closely with Jonathan Anderson and Pascale Lepoivre during the brand’s huge growth, recently helping onboard new creative directors Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough.

Chanel staged its Métiers d’art show on a New York subway platform this week, with Matthieu Blazy sending Loli Bahia, Alex Consani, and Mona Tougaard among other stars down a downtown station-turned-runway. Commuting will never look this glamorous again.

The Serpentine and New York’s Flag Art Foundation have announced a new biannual award worth £200,000, now the largest contemporary art prize in the UK. Five artists over ten years will receive support and exhibitions in both London and Manhattan. The first winner will be selected in 2026.

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We are excited to team up with Studio J.E.D. for this Art Girl Fax issue. Studio J.E.D. was founded in early 2025 when ceramic artist Jen Dwyer moved from rural Connecticut to move in with her them boyfriend and soon to be husband Brooklyn. In a tiny apartment under the rumble of the Bushwick train, surrounded by moving boxes and uninspiring Amazon lamps she asked herself a life-changing question: “What if I made the lighting I wish existed?”. The next day she began sculpting soft, organic, deeply handmade ceramic lighting meant to bring calm and beauty into everyday spaces. Only a couple of months after creating her first piece — the now-beloved Kusama Lamp — Dwyer was invited into a group exhibition at Bergdorf Goodman, curated by Natasha Roberts where most of her lamps sold out repeatedly. The momentum set the foundation for a growing collectible lighting studio grounded in craftsmanship, texture, and sculptural design. Working from her Brooklyn studio, Dwyer is now developing her second collection and preparing for her upcoming exhibition at ICFF in May 2026 and if you like to get an idea of her work (and the iconic lamps….), find more info here.

Discover the can’t-miss art events worldwide that TheArtGorgeous team are itching to see!

• Abu Dhabi – Christopher Joshua Benton at Baró Galeria
  

• London – Collective Care at Tate Modern
  

• Beijing – Vajiko Chachkhiani’s Rain House Returns
  

• Paris – Radical Making at Carpenters Workshop Gallery
  

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