CULTURAL BULLETIN | HAPPENINGS | WORLD OF CABANA
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BY TEAM CABANA | HAPPENINGS | 1 MARCH 2026
The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) opens in Maastricht, Netherlands, from 14-19 March. Image shown: TEFAF Maastricht (2025) © Loraine Bodewes
SPOTLIGHT: TEFAF 2026
The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF), the undisputed tour de force of the art world, returns to Maastricht from March 14–19, offering an unparalleled panorama of fine art, antiques, and design. This prestigious fair will once again present masterpieces spanning 7,000 years, featuring over 270 galleries and dealers. With a meticulously curated selection that ranges from ancient treasures to contemporary marvels, TEFAF reaffirms its position as the global leader in fine art fairs.
March 14 - 19, 2026, MECC, MAASTRICHT, THE NETHERLANDS
EXHIBITIONS
LONDON, ENGLAND
Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art
Collarless jacket and hat with butterfly trimmings, British Vogue, 15 March, 1937. Photograph by Horst P. HORST. Conde Nast via Getty Images.
Opening this March, the V&A’s highly anticipated exhibition Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art traces more than a century of radical imagination and creative influence. The first UK show dedicated to Elsa Schiaparelli, it charts a designer who who refused to separate fashion from art.
March 28 - November 8, 2026, Victoria & Albert Museum, LONDON, UK
SAN FRANCISCO, USA
Monet and Venice
Claude Monet, The Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, 1908. Oil on canvas, 26 1/8 x 36 7/8 in. (66.36 x 93.66 cm). Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, The Lockton Collection, 70.76
Monet and Venice is the first exhibition dedicated to Claude Monet’s Venetian paintings since their debut in Paris over a century ago. More than 20 of the artist’s grand views of La Serenissima—painted during his only visit to the city in 1908—will be reunited and set in dialogue with select works from across his career, including his iconic Water Lilies.
Framed within the rich tradition of Venetian view painting, the exhibition also considers the city’s enduring pull on artists, from Canaletto to J. M. W. Turner.
March 21 - July 26, 2026, de Young, SAN FRANCISCO, USA
NEW YORK, USA
Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon: Celebrating 70 Years of Asia Society and the Rockefeller Legacy
Storage Jar Korea Choson dynasty, about mid-18th century; Porcelain painted with underglaze cobalt blue; Asia Society, New York, Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection © Asia Society.
To mark its 70th anniversary, Asia Society Museum presents Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon, an extensive survey drawn from its founding Rockefeller collection.
The exhibition brings together seventy masterworks—Buddhist and Hindu sculpture alongside Chinese, Korean, and Japanese ceramics—tracing two millennia of artistic devotion, trade, and cultural exchange across Asia.
March 18 - January 3, 2026, Asia Society Museum, NEW YORK, USA
ROME, ITALY
Marcello Provenzale from Cento: A Genius of Baroque Mosaic in Borghese Rome
'Orpheus' Marcello Provenzale, 1618 © Galleria Borghese
At Galleria Borghese, Marcello Provenzale from Cento: A Genius of Baroque Mosaic in Borghese Rome shines a light on one of the 17th century’s most extraordinary yet overlooked artisans. Active in papal Rome, Provenzale transformed hardstone and glass tesserae into jewel-like micro-mosaics prized by collectors and cardinals alike.
The exhibition traces his virtuosity within the glittering cultural orbit of the Borghese court, revealing the technical brilliance and refined naturalism that elevated mosaic to a truly Baroque art form.
March 17 - May 10, 2026, Galleria Borghese, ROME, ITALY
PARIS, FRANCE
Renoir and Love: A Joyful modernity (1865-1885)
Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), Le Déjeuner des Canotiers, 1880-1881, Huile sur toile. Photo Courtesy of The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
Reuniting masterpieces not seen together in France since 1985, this major exhibition in collaboration with the National Gallery, London, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston—reframes Renoir as a painter of modern love.
Set against the theatres, gardens, and cafés of a rapidly changing Paris, his shimmering canvases capture intimacy, sociability, and the shifting codes of desire.
March 17 - July 19, 2026, Musée d'Orsay, PARIS, FRANCE
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