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3 days ago | 
surfacemag.com | Jenna Adrian-Diaz
CULTURE Now that the Cannes Film Festival, the F1 Grand Prix de Monaco, and the 2025 AmFAR Gala have all come and gone, the social season is officially underway on the Riviera. Those with a finger on the pulse of the Côte d’Azur summer scene know the outsize role that the Principality of Monaco plays upon this glittering stretch of the Mediterranean.
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5 days ago | 
surfacemag.com | Jenna Adrian-Diaz
SURFACE 7 Plus, Stephan Sagmiller’s study of color, the Glass House’s tribute to the life and legacy of Gaetano Pesce, and more of the best things we saw this week. PLAYThe Jacquemus Makeover of Monte-Carlo’s Beach Club PierIt’s all banana yellow, coconut milk white, and black stripes for the sunbeds, parasols, and beach towels on Monte-Carlo’s legendary Beach Club pier.
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5 days ago | 
surfacemag.com | Jenna Adrian-Diaz
DESIGN To hear Thomas Heatherwick speak of architecture is to hear the Heatherwick Studio founder and General Director of the 2025 Seoul Architecture Biennale champion the importance of cultivating joy, warmth, and intimacy through design. In discussing the theme of the Seoul Biennale from Longchamp’s recently reimagined SoHo store, the designer spoke of the “emotional impact” the surfaces of buildings can have on passersby.
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1 week ago | 
surfacemag.com | Jenna Adrian-Diaz
Name: Sami TsangAge: 27Where you’re based: Toronto, CanadaInstagram: @samiclayeeTitle of work: I’m the Reflection of YouWhere to see it: “Our Family Portrait,” Claire Oliver Gallery, New York City. Three words to describe this work:Reflection, tension, and tendernessWhat was on your mind at the time:When I was making this work I was thinking a lot about how the people closest to us shape who we become.
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1 week ago | 
surfacemag.com | Jenna Adrian-Diaz
CULTURE CLUB To have an ear to the ground on the art world’s most exciting goings-on is to understand why the Kitchen’s 2025 spring gala was the place to be last Thursday night. The evening, which was MC’d by choreographer and Balletcore founder Angela Trimbur, honored a slate of trailblazing leaders in the arts including Lucinda Childs, Wu Tsang, Jamie Singer Soros, and Robert Soros.
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1 week ago | 
surfacemag.com | Jenna Adrian-Diaz
CULTURE CLUB On May 20, the Whitney Museum of American Art honored Amy Sherald, Barbara Haskell, and Richard DeMartini during its annual gala. Held in the lobby and 7th floor galleries of the Renzo Piano-designed building that has hosted it for the past decade, the museum raised more than $7.7 million to benefit its exhibitions and public-facing programing, as well as the the Barbara Haskell American Fellows Legacy Fund and its free admissions initiative.
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2 weeks ago | 
surfacemag.com | Jenna Adrian-Diaz
RESTAURANT Practically around the corner from the playfully kinetic retail experience they crafted for Sandy Liang, Almost Studio architects Dorian Booth and Anthony Gagliardi have created an unlikely canvas for spatial experimentation and abundant artistic references in cafe and coffee shop The Mandarin.
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2 weeks ago | 
surfacemag.com | Jenna Adrian-Diaz
SURFACE 7 Plus, Assouline sets out to outfit your home library, and Derek Ridgers looks back on a decade of the Cannes Film Festival. SAVORWe Are Ona’s Culinary Pop-Up Was Immersive Art at Its FinestOn the unfinished 41st floor of WSA at 180 Maiden Lane, wrapped in floor-to-ceiling windows with uninterrupted views of the Manhattan skyline at dusk, We Are Ona’s New York City culinary pop-up provided a sensorial experience unlike any other.
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2 weeks ago | 
surfacemag.com | Jenna Adrian-Diaz
CULTURE CLUB For this year’s Spring Gala, New York City Ballet treated guests to an ethereal experience with a performance of George Balanchine’s five-act spectacle, Vienna Waltzes. Before the performance, gala chair Diana Taylor set the tone for the evening by sharing that $2.7 million had already been raised to benefit the company. A scene of Viennese splendor then unfolded as more than 50 of the company’s dancers transported viewers to enchanted forests and imperial palaces.
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3 weeks ago | 
surfacemag.com | Jenna Adrian-Diaz
CULTURE CLUB As the Louvre stares down a six year, $800 million renovation, some of its most ardent stateside supporters—the American Friends of the Louvre—gathered at the Rainbow Room on May 4 for the organization’s largest gala ever. The philanthropic organization dedicated to supporting the Louvre and the advancement of French culture in the United States honored the designer Mathieu Lehanneur—who created the torch and cauldron for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games.
