The opening of a private museum in Moscow funded by the Russian billionaire Leonid Mikhelson, has been pushed back to March 2021. The GES-2 arts centre, designed by the architect Renzo Piano, was due to open this September with an inaugural exhibition created by Ragnar Kjartansson.
Once a place where sea, desert, and palm groves coexisted in rare harmony, Tunisia’s Gabès Oasis stands today as one of the world’s most fragile cultural-environmental sites. At its heart is artist Mohamed Amine Hamouda, whose ecological practice offers a form of resistance—one built on memory, materials, and a return to ancestral knowledge.