If Zonamaco is the polished, blue-chip anchor of Mexico City Art Week, Feria Material  is its electric current. At the helm of Feria Material is a team that lives and breathes contemporary art. Isa Natalia Castilla , trained at Parsons and Sotheby’s, returned to Mexico in 2014 after formative years in New York to create a platform for emerging artists. Alongside her, Marcos Ruiz , collector and Director of Programming, shapes the fair’s curatorial vision, while Brett William

French artist Claire Tabouret , 43, has been selected to create six contemporary stained-glass windows  for the south aisle chapels of Notre-Dame de Paris —a €4 million project blending classical form with a modern vision. Despite public debate over replacing 19th-century geometric windows by Viollet-le-Duc, Tabouret’s designs promise a new, intimate experience for visitors: “living paintings”  where light shifts with the weather. Inspired from childhood by Monet’s Nymphéas  

For its second edition, MIRA  returned to the historic hôtel particulier of the Maison de l’Amérique latine  on Boulevard Saint-Germain, offering a refreshing pause amid the intensity of Paris Photo week. Rather than overwhelming scale, MIRA chose intimacy and genuine proximity between artworks and visitors. Around twenty galleries from Cuba, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, and beyond  took part, each contributing to a vibrant yet finely curated snapshot of contemporary