The women in Florïne Ïmo’s world are having a good time. They lounge, play, pose, pump petrol, ride motorcycles and carousels, appearing as angels, witches, sluts, princesses and girlbosses, sacred and ridiculous, vulnerable and dange
La Sierrazuela did not begin as an Andalusian lifestyle fantasy. Built in 1750 as a retreat for Jesuit monks, later inhabited by a Sufi community and found on Idealista with mustard-yellow walls and dated fittings, the cortijo outside Arcos de la Fro
Cy Twombly did not use words to make his work easier to read. He allowed them to drift, fracture and disappear until language began to behave like memory. In Proem, made in Rome on 23 November 1983, the title and date float above a pale, cloud-like
In Naples, history is never kept at a respectful distance. It remains visible, inhabited and slightly unruly, and nowhere more seductively than inside Palazzo Cellamare, whose rooms have absorbed centuries of architecture, art and cultural life. Its
Before it was Maison d’Artiste, this was a bergerie, one of the stone sheepfolds that still punctuate the olive groves above Saint-Paul-de-Vence, until French artist and interior designer Jacqueline Morabito took it apart in 1995 and rebuilt it
When Arnold Newman photographed Frank Stella in his New York studio in 1967, Stella was only thirty, yet already one of the most consequential painters of his generation. He sits low in the frame, cigarette between his fingers and paint across his c
William Fletcher was only three years out of architecture school when he designed this house in 1953, his first fully realised residence and the home he created for himself, his wife Joyce and their family on almost two wooded acres in Dunthorpe, bet
The Barcelona Pavilion is one of the most influential buildings of the twentieth century, yet the original stood for less than a year. Designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich as Germany’s national pavilion for the 1929 Barcelona I
Returning to CHART @chart_artfair feels less like entering the international fair circuit than checking in on the Nordic art world itself. Now in its fourteenth edition, it has become a classic of the regional calendar, familiar without feeling tire
Bernar Venet is best known for bending industrial steel into monumental arcs and indeterminate lines. At the Fondation Venet in the Var, those forms enter a more intimate register. Home, studio, sculpture park and exhibition spaces occupy the same gr
In the New York townhouse of @jordan_roth, maximalism becomes autobiography. Created with Haynes-Roberts over three years for Roth, his husband, the writer Richie Jackson, and their son Levi, the house replaces the wood, steel and dark Prada suits of
First snapshots (no names, no mentions) from @artorama_marseille, which opens its 20th edition at La Friche la Belle de Mai with 37 galleries from 18 countries, alongside publishers, project spaces, design and the Immaterial Salon. What becomes clea
At the heart of Yael Aflalo @yaya_aflafo and Ludvig Frössén’s @frossen West Village townhouse is the art. A vast painting by Martha Jungwirth fills the living room, a Tal R sculpture stands by the windows and Sigmar Polke hangs in t
Van Gogh has become one of art history’s safest saints. SUSPECTS makes him dangerous again. At the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, the exhibition returns to the man his neighbours actually encountered: a foreigner in crisis, regarded with fe
Yayoi Kusama was never simply the artist of dots. She was the artist of self-obliteration, using repetition to dissolve the boundaries between body, object and world. Kusama died in Tokyo on 14 August at the age of 97, her studio announced today. Fe
Andy Warhol’s rhinestoned muse, and the author of her own image, Dolly Parton has died at 80. Warhol saw in Parton what he had seen in Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley and Elizabeth Taylor: a face that had become inseparable from American mass cu