It must be Long Island’s best-kept secret. John Chamberlain’s sprawling estate on Shelter Island is well hidden and has been off limits since the artist’s death in 2011.

Among its surprises is a swimming pool designed by the artist. The story goes that Chamberlain was asked by his friend Donald Judd to create a pool for his place in Texas. So, Chamberlain built a prototype—to make sure it was just right.

The off-limits policy on Long Island is beginning to change, albeit for invited guests. A dinner held there recently included A-listers such as filmmaker Sofia Coppola. It was co-hosted by Sotheby’s, which plans to hold an exhibition of Chamberlain’s works in the Breuer Building in New York in the fall.

“We aren’t open to the public—we’re trying to figure out, okay, how do we?” Alexandra Fairweather, the director of the artist's estate, told Vanity Fair. Chamberlain's stepdaughter explained: “We’re in a residential zone—how do we give people access to this space? We can’t let everybody come in for logistical reasons.”

Fairweather oversees the 36-acre estate on the eastern end of Long Island and its contents. Home to many of Chamberlain’s crushed automobile sculptures, it also preserves the tinfoil sculptures that he used as studies for large-scale works. Amid the clutter are Niki de Saint Phalle-designed toys, and a recipe for chickpea soup devised by the food-loving Chamberlain.

The Bilbao effect could have been the Groningen effect. If only the ground-breaking museum in the Netherlands got the credit it deserves.

Opening three years before Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Bilbao, the Dutch museum is housed in a series of postmodern pavilions designed by Italian architect-designer Alessandro Mendini, who collaborated with Philippe Starck, Michele de Lucchi and Coop Himmelb(l)au, no less.

“It totally deserves to be more famous,” artistic director Roos Gortzak tells the publication Free York. Since arriving in 2025, she has been determined to raise the profile of the museum and recapture the experimental spirit of the 1990s.

Its next show takes its cue from artist Frances Stark’s 1999 publication, The Architect & The Housewife, in which she explored power dynamics in the art world versus the demands of daily life. Opening in September it features an eclectic mix of artists and architects who thought big, ranging from Zaha Hadid to Mendini himself.

The amount raised by NEW INC, the New Museum’s cultural incubator, over the past 12 years. It has just announced its Year 13 cohort of creatives.

Sidney Nolan’s paintings of Ned Kelly put the artist and the Australian outlaw on the international art map.

Six decades after his Kelly series of 1946-47 was last reunited, the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) will redisplay Nolan's 27 early works of the bushranger in an exhibition covering the artist’s formative years.

Maud Page, the director of the AGNSW in Sydney, said the show opening in October will “bring anew the energy and ambition that propelled Nolan to national and international acclaim”.

After moving to Britain permanently in the 1950s, Nolan produced another major series of Ned Kelly paintings, but his early works helped redefine Australia’s self-image.

Last week, Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art opened a show celebrating new connections between Australia and the “Old Country.” Titled MCA x Tate, it features works by 24 Australian and Indigenous artists jointly acquired by the two institutions in an initiative funded by Qantas airline.

1 - Johnny Depp has made his museum debut in China. A Bunch of Stuff Presents Figures of the Fringe, which runs until December at Modern Art Museum (MAM) Shanghai, reveals the actor-artist's preoccupation with outsiders and anti-heroes.

2 - The Smithsonian is looking at opening its long-planned National Museum of the American Latino inside the historic Arts and Industries Building in Washington, DC. The move could circumvent congressional approval—and President Trump.

3 - Gagosian will devote its booth at Frieze Seoul in early September to works by Damien Hirst, ranging from a sculptures from Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable to spot paintings and pill cabinets. Hirst's show at MMCA Seoul was a blockbuster earlier this year.

4 - The Japanese American National Museum in downtown Los Angeles reopens in January after a three-year revamp. Highlights include a show of works by pioneering female artists Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Mine Okubo.