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The Watch Collectors Building a New Kind of Fair

Music executive Lex Borrero and Screw Down Crown editor Faheem Khan are designing festivals where newcomers can meet master makers and strangers can find their way into the conversations worth having. Their success will depend on whether intimacy can survive at scale.

By Paul Jebara

Large Opens on Île Seguin With a Focus on French Art in All Its Forms

Backed by developer and collector Laurent Dumas and led by former La Maison Rouge director Paula Aisemberg, the new center occupies a striking RCR Arquitectes building on a former Renault factory site. Its debut exhibition, curated by Cecilia Alemani, traces humanity’s bond with the machine.

By Elisa Carollo

Inside Karim Crippa’s Vision for an Even More Parisian Art Basel Paris

The fair’s new director, who helped shape its identity from the start, describes each day of its fifth edition as a chapter designed to keep visitors returning. This year, 211 galleries share the Grand Palais with an expanded historical section and a public program that spills across the city.

By Elisa Carollo