Fondazione-Prada

On 8 June 2026, Axiom Space and Prada unveiled the Liquid Cooling and Ventilation Garment — a form-fitting inner layer with a fully redundant water-cooling circuit — designed to sit beneath the AxEMU spacesuit on NASA’s Artemis IV mission, planned for 2028. It is the second deliverable from a partnership announced on 4 October 2023, and it is also the cleanest data point yet for a thesis FORMA has been tracking since the Fondazione Prada opened at Largo Isarco in May 2015: that Prada partnerships outside fashion are not marketing adjacencies. They are how the house has, for thirty-three years, built brand equity that runners-up in the luxury sector have not been able to assemble. ...

Eight Venetian palazzi and historic venues reopen across the same May weekend in 2026, each given over to a single artist or single curatorial pair, and the most-discussed shows of the 61st Venice Art Biennale are, almost without exception, not in the Giardini. The venice biennale palazzo takeovers this spring stretch from Anish Kapoor’s Palazzo Manfrin in Cannaregio to Fondazione Prada’s pairing of Arthur Jafa and Richard Prince at Ca’ Corner della Regina, with Marina Abramović inside the Gallerie dell’Accademia and Georg Baselitz, posthumously, on San Giorgio Maggiore. Read together they form a typology of how artists, foundations and institutions are now using Venice as a venue. ...