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While the world of contemporary art and design rarely stands still, this spring marked a particularly breathless cultural moment. Our community gathered—at the Venice Biennale, Frieze, ICFF, NADA, Collective Design, Maison&Objet—in rapid-fire succession, against a backdrop of major events like the landmark opening of the new Whitney Museum and record sales at Christie's. With this issue, we harnessed that energy and have packed our pages with some of the art world's most fascinating players. In New York, photographer Simon Watson visited Cecily Brown as she installed "The English Garden," a series of uncharacteristically small paintings for her first show at Maccarone gallery, and then captured rebel painter Lisa Yuskavage following the opening of her show at David Zwirner. Both artists gave candid interviews about their new work, shifts in the market and their upcoming projects. For our cover story, Dustin Yellin invited photographer Douglas Friedman into his studio on the heels of his Lincoln Center collaboration, Psychogeographies, in which Yellin populated the Midtown landmark with a dozen 3,000-pound human-like forms suspended in glass. That the buzzed-about sculpture series succeeded in its untraditional setting evokes the spirit of Yellin's Pioneer Works Center in Brooklyn, which promotes experimentation and transdisciplinary collaboration. There's no rest come summertime, either. Consider Alex Katz, who has no less than three concurrent exhibitions in Maine, Atlanta and New York over the next few months. Meanwhile, Ann Temkin, the chief curator of painting and sculpture at MoMA, previews the upcoming "Picasso's Sculpture" show with Tracy Zwick. This exhibition is monumental not only because it's the first of its kind since 1967, but also because Picasso held onto his sculptures—including many of those included in the show—unlike his paintings. Of course, this frenetic pace is not limited to our shores. Dasha Zhukova's hotly anticipated Garage Museum of Contemporary Art opens in Moscow in June and Fondazione Prada had its debut in Milan just in time for contributor Giovanna Dunmall to be among the first to tour it and report back from the sparkling new complex. Both museums were designed by cultural-landmark-maker Rem Koolhaas—and founded by women. Speaking of Koolhaas, we check in with one of his protégés, Ole Scheeren, as the Beijing-based architect carves out his niche in China. For this issue's Cultured Commission—now in its eighth edition—Snarkitecture's Alex Mustonen and Daniel Arsham created the Drip Light, available exclusively on Artsy.net. And we look forward to Art Basel and Design Miami this June, where will be co-hosting a collectors dinner with Aman Villas. These two elements capture our approach: Through publication and production alike, we broaden access to art and deepen the conversation about it. Sarah G. Harrelson Editor-in-Chief @sarahgharrelson 64 CULTURED The Summer Issue NET-A-PORTER.COM, the Rubell Family Collection and Cultured Magazine hosted a luncheon where Mera Rubell (above) kept a rapt audience, with her art world tales. To see the event video, log on to Culturedmag.com Follow us | @cultured_mag WORLD RED EYE