Eliza Kurazova

Paris Letter: 5 Exhibitions Everyone Is Talking About This Month 💌

$724M. 20 years. 45 curators. One museum. Today, the #DavidGeffenGalleries open at LACMA and it’s unlike any museum you have been to. @peterzumthorarchitecture the Swiss architect who almost never builds in cities, just completed his first-ever building in the United States. A 900-foot concrete structure that literally floats above Wilshire Boulevard, opening 3.5 acres of public space beneath it. But the architecture is not even the most radical part! No more « European painting » room, no more chronological corridor through history. Instead, 45 curators organised 155,000 works across 6,000 years around four bodies of water: the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian Ocean, and the Mediterranean. The idea: cultures were never isolated. They have always been connected through the sea and exchange. The result is a museum where a Japanese textile might hang next to a West African sculpture next to an Andean vessel because they were all shaped by the same trade routes. New commissions by #ToddGray, #DoHoSuh and #LaurenHalsey are woven throughout. 6,000 years of art. Reorganized around the ocean. Open today 💌 @lacma

Everyone is talking about @traceyeminstudio right now. And they should be! From “My Bed” to neon confessions, Tracey Emin has built a career where vulnerability becomes legacy. Her retrospective at @tate opened in February with 40 years of work, 100+ pieces, five-star reviews from critics and collectors. The enfant terrible of the 90s is now, officially, a national treasure. And today, in Paris, one of her most intimate works goes to auction at Artcurial. She wrote it in her own handwriting. Then bent it into neon. Then someone bought it on Valentine’s Day 💌 My Heart Is With You, And I Love You, Always Always Always (2006) by Tracey Emin, blue neon, edition 2/3. @artcurial__ @isauredevielcastel

Details of Art Paris 2026 💌 Really happy to share my first published article in the Art Issue - Art in Paris for @technikart_mag Thank you #LoïcLeGall @cesar.levy1 @193gallery who contributed their words and perspectives to this piece, and to the amazing team of the magazine for the trust! @technikart_mag @laurenceremila @malnuittt @artparisartfair

“The Serpentine holds such an important place in the hearts of the public and that’s what makes it so exciting to be showing my work here. As a young art student in London I loved to visit, and saw exhibitions there that influenced me enormously. It’s a huge honour to be having my first institutional show in London at a site so full of memories but that is still so exciting and unique today.” - Cecily Brown @cecilybrown_studio @serpentineuk @bukhmanfoundation @griffincatalyst

The greatest scenography is the kind you never notice. You notice the Basquiat, the fever of it, the words broken open like wounds across the canvas. You notice the way a George Condo holds two realities at once, his figures lurching between comedy and catastrophe. None of it happens by accident. The rhythm of the walls, the calibration of the distance, the silence placed around each work so that it could speak at full intensity: each is a decision, and each decision belongs to @ceciledegos and her art of scenography. For nearly thirty years, Cécile Degos has been designing the conditions under which we encounter some of the most significant art of our time. At the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris alone, she staged the Basquiat retrospective, awarded the Globe de Cristal, then L’Art en Guerre, awarded the Historia and El País prizes before travelling to the Guggenheim Bilbao, and most recently the George Condo retrospective, nearly eighty paintings, a hundred and ten drawings, twenty sculptures, a show demanding its own spatial language for one of the most psychologically charged bodies of work in contemporary art. This week, we visited “Face au Ciel. Paul Huet en son temps” at @museedelavieromantique alongside Cécile Degos, walking through the galleries she designed room by room, and sat down with her to talk about: - the art of scenography, - the discipline of spatial restraint, - what it means for her to build an experience that makes people put their phones away. 📝 Story now live. Link in bio

shades of blue 💌

Details of “Hypnose” (2025) by Arghavan Khosravi Iranian‑born painter @arghavan_khosravi builds her works from shaped, layered wood panels that extend her compositions into sculptural space, creating a multidimensional presence. Drawing on the visual language of Persian miniature tradition, her work explores identity, memory and movement across worlds.

In 1972, Francis Bacon began one of the most important chapters of his career: the decade of self-portraiture. After the death of his long-term partner George Dyer in 1971, Bacon increasingly turned to his own face as subject. He once said he painted himself because the people around him were “dying like flies”. Throughout the 1970s, he produced a concentrated group of self-portraits that are now considered central to understanding his psychological language of distortion. Details of Francis Bacon, Self-Portrait, 1972, oil on canvas, offered at Sotheby’s Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction, London, March 4, 2026 💌

In the heart of Lisbon, at @maatmuseum “Notre Feu” by @isabelleferreira.studio is currently on view, offering an immersive exploration of memory, migration, and resilience. The exhibition traces the clandestine journeys of Portuguese migrants to France during the Salazar dictatorship of the 1960s. Experiencing “Notre Feu” firsthand, it becomes clear that the exhibition exemplifies a curatorial approach that honors the relational dimension of art, the narratives embedded in materials, and the intersection between audience, artist, and history, in this exhibition curated by @joanaprneves Artistic director of @drawingnowparis , curator, creator and host of the podcast Exhibitionistas, and founder of the art residency Worlding, Neves views artworks not as static objects but as “relational, dynamic entities,” emphasizing the experience of creation, materials and narrative over the fetishization of objects. This week, we spoke with Joana P.R. Neves about the art of curating as a practice of research and storytelling, from her work on Portuguese migration narratives at MAAT Museum to shaping Drawing Now Paris as a leading platform for contemporary drawing worldwide. 📝 Story now live. Link in bio

Art details of the week 💌

A little over a year ago, @kidcudi created his first painting. Now, “Echoes of the Past” arrives in Paris at @ruttkowski68 as the debut solo exhibition of Scotty Ramon. Through his alter-ego Max, the artist explores mental health, inner struggle and the juxtaposition between darkness and hope via his artworks. An original atmospheric soundscape by the artist plays throughout the space via custom TEILE speakers, creating a fully immersive experience. During this Thursday’s press preview at their Paris location, Scotty Ramon presented us another dimension of his creative vision, one rendered in bold chromatics and biomorphic shapes rather than beats and lyrics. Makeup: @kristi.grimm Wearing: @rhobieofficial 📝 Story now live. Link in bio.