CULTURAL BULLETIN | HAPPENINGS | WORLD OF CABANA

 A monthly guide to the events and exhibitions on Cabana's Radar: a global cultural bulletin and a must-read for anyone looking to keep their finger on the pulse of art and design. Read on to discover our July highlights. A preview is available for all, while the full global cultural bulletin is exclusively available on our Substack. Join us there for our newest and most intimate chapter.

BY TEAM CABANA | HAPPENINGS | 1 JULY 2026 

Grand opening of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, 18 July © Fernando Guerra

For everyone affected by the global heatwave, we suggest marble halls, cool galleries and museum cafés. This month's Global Cultural Bulletin rounds up the cultural events and exhibitions worth stepping inside for. From Lisbon's reopening of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum and Santa Fe's iconic International Folk Art Market, to exhibitions moving through the cool and intimate interiors of Hammershøi in Zurich, the vivid optics of Signac in Potsdam, or the experimental dialogues between Michelangelo and Rodin in Paris, July offers a rich programme and an escape from the scorching sun.

NEW OPENING

LISBON, PORTUGAL

Grand Reopening of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum

Calouste Gulbenkian Museum © Fernando Guerra..jpg

Following an extensive and long-awaited restoration, the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum reopens with its original vision renewed. Enhanced galleries, restored interiors and a revived dialogue between architecture, art and the surrounding gardens invite visitors to rediscover one of Europe's finest collections.

July 20, 2026, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, LISBON, PORTUGAL

EXHIBITIONS

LONDON, UK

Frida Kahlo: The Making of an Icon

Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait (With Velvet Dress) 1926. Private Collection. 

More than 30 of Frida Kahlo's defining works anchor this major exhibition tracing her transformation from artist to global icon. Alongside paintings, personal objects and over 200 works by contemporaries and successors, the show culminates in an exploration of "Fridamania", and Kahlo's enduring cultural legacy.

Through January 3, 2026, Tate Modern, LONDON, UK

PHILADELPHIA, USA

Workshop of the World Arts and Crafts in Philadelphia 

Late 19th century Cabinet, maker unknown © Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Marking the museum's 150th anniversary, this landmark exhibition explores Philadelphia's pivotal role in the American Arts and Crafts movement. Bringing together more than 250 objects, from furniture and ceramics to stained glass and textiles, tracing the perpetual dialogue between craftsmanship, industry and contemporary making.

Opening July 12, 2026, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, PHILADELPHIA, USA 

CLEVELAND, USA

The Renaissance Engraver at Work 

Three Famous Antique Roman Statues: The Farnesian Hercules, 1592 Hendrick Goltzius (Dutch, 1558–1617). Engraving; platemark. The Cleveland Museum of Art.

Drawn entirely from the Cleveland Museum of Art's exceptional collection, this exhibition charts the rise of engraving between 1470 and 1650. Rare masterpieces reveal how early printmakers transformed a demanding technique into one of the Renaissance's most influential artistic innovations.

July 5 - November 1, 2027, The Cleveland Museum of Art, CLEVELAND, USA

PARIS, FRANCE

Michelangelo Rodin: Living bodies

Auguste RODIN. Adam. Musée Rodin © Musée Rodin, Christian Baraja.

For the first time, sculptures by Michelangelo and Rodin are brought into direct dialogue, exploring their shared fascination with the expressive potential of the human body. Marble, bronze and drawings reveal how both artists transformed physical form into emotional and spiritual force.

Through July 20, 2026, Musée du Louvre, PARIS, FRANCE

ZÜRICH, SWITZERLAND

Vilhelm Hammershøi: The Eye That Listens

Vilhelm Hammershøi Interieur mit der Frau des Künstlers, von hinten gesehen, 1901 Öl auf Leinwand, 45 x 39 cm Privatsammlung.

The first comprehensive Swiss exhibition devoted to Vilhelm Hammershøi brings together his masterfully atmospheric interiors, portraits and landscapes. Through muted palettes and restrained compositions, the exhibition reveals an artist who transformed silence, light and perception into a distinctive visual language.

July 3 - October 25, 2026, Kunsthaus Zürich, ZÜRICH, SWITZERLAND

PARIS, FRANCE

Baroque Splendors: From El Greco to Velázquez

© Musée Jacquemart André.

Bringing masterpieces from New York's Hispanic Society of America to France for the first time, this exhibition celebrates the richness of the Spanish Golden Age. Around 40 paintings by Spanish masters, including El Greco, Velázquez, Zurbarán and Murillo, reveal the expressive power of Hispanic Baroque art.

Through August 2, 2026, Musée Jacquemart-André, PARIS, FRANCE

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