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• Contributors: We asked our contributors to share their cultural highlights of the summer
• Cultured 25: Here's what to do, where to be and what to see
• Driven by Design: Zesty Meyers, co-founder of R & Company, sits down with Dennis Freedman, a long time collector of design and curator of Design Miami's new Design at Large platform.
• Grand Gesture: Governors Island becomes New York's latest public art canvas.
• Painterly Awakening: After nearly a decade, Aaron Curry returns to his first love, the canvas.
• Next in Line: The former Barry Friedman gallery gets a second life as Kasher Potamkin.
• Back to Bronze: Mattia Bonetti showcases his latest designs at David Gill Galleries.
• Master Builders: The architecture edition of the Venice Biennale tends to fly under the radar, but that's about to change with Rem Koolhass curating this summer's show.
• Her Next Move: Marianne Boesky Gallery expands with a new outpost downtown.
• Scene Stealer: Artist Jacolby Satterwhite draws a crowd with his original combination of animation and performance.
• The Talented Mr. Hoffman: Eric Hoffman helps art and design brands finds their voice.
• Linked In: Studio Link-Arc is upending the Chinese architecture stigma one elegant project at a time.
• Palms Away: Sarah Gavlak returns to Los Angeles to open a new gallery.
• Studio: Tom Sachs, New York, NY 10013
• Material Girl: At just 23 years old, Paris-based Julie Richoz already has the design world taking notice of her porcelain and glass creations.
• Urban Decay: Rachel Feinstein talks " Folly," fantasy and mining the past.
• Boy Wonder: The art world is asking: Is Oscar Murillo the next Basquiat?
• New Venture: After 13 years at the helm of Christine's, art world powerhouse Amy Cappellazzo gets ready for the next phase with Art Agency, Partners.
• Armed and Just a Little Dangerous: Watch out for Arme De L'Amour; a new line of sculptural jewelry.
• The Company of Others: Being one's best self comes with a little from your friends, a mentality Pharrell Williams champions in his latest art adventure.
• The Big Picture: With nearly a decade under its belt and under new leadership, Design Miami looks to expand further into the culture of design.
• The Art of Axel: The celebrated designer, curator and antiquarian, Axel Vervoordt, creates cerebral, sublime style but never for its own sake.
• Je ne Sais Quoi: What exactly is it that has Joseph Dirand's office flooded with thousands of request every month?
• Paper Trail: Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban combines ingenuity, compassion and fiercely independent streak.
• Point of View: From institution to start-up and points in between, an intelligent group of young women are shaping the way we experience, interpret and buy design.
• Paradise Found: A new Cy Twombly retrospective presents the artist's work in Latin America for the first time.
• Bio-Bofill: Barcelona-based architect Ricardo Bofill takes a page from nature for his Venice Biennale exhibition.
• Growth Spurt: Much like a great art collector, Enzo Enea couldn't part with some of his most prized trees-- so he built a museum for them.
• Heavy Metal: Gabrielle Shelton's Brooklyn-based metal fabrication shop climbs to new heights.
• Well Thread: The Parisian duo behind Combray Design will have you in stitches.
• Meaningfull Expression: Los Angeles artist Brenna Youngblood stands out in an era of often-tenuous creation.
• Cultural Affairs: About town with the Cultured crowd.
• Cultured x Errazuriz: Sebastian Errazuriz presents a playful take on VIP access with his limited-edition walkie talkies for the latest Cultured Commission.