Maison Michel Marks 90 Years with Paris Exhibition, Islamic Arts Biennale Names Curators, NYPL Receives $60M

Key facts

• Maison Michel's 90th-anniversary exhibition opens September 23 at La Galerie du 19M in Paris and runs through December 13.
• The exhibition is curated by Priscilla Royer and Emilie Hammen and features thousands of wooden hat blocks, a sculpture by Amaury Darras, and a 19th-century straw-sewing machine.
• The Islamic Arts Biennale's third edition, opening November 1, 2027, will be curated by Nada Raza, William Robinson, Alain Fouad George, and Idries Trevathan.
• The World Around named 25 finalists for its Young Climate Prize, with mentors including Bruce Mau, Paola Antonelli, Walter Hood, Tatiana Bilbao, Al Borde, and Xu Tiantian.
• The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts received a $60 million anonymous donation, the largest in its history, to digitize its 15-million-item archive.
• The National Gallery's Renoir exhibition sold over 22,000 tickets, surpassing the 15,654 tickets sold by 2024's Van Gogh show in the same six-week period.
• "Renoir and Love" opens October 3 at the National Gallery, following a run at the Musée d'Orsay, and features 45 works.
• The Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum set a single-day ticket sales record and is on view through July 2027.