Georg Baselitz’s final paintings return to the schoolhouse of his childhood, where private memory and German history occupy the same unsettling ground. Now on view at @gagosian in New York, “Meine Schule” was conceived and designed
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“A collection is like a puzzle,” Charles Riva @charlesriva tells me, describing how a painting can become part of your life while finding its place among the works you already own. We met in London to talk about the pleasure of collectin
Inside @jasperconran’s London home, a former ballroom becomes the setting for a very personal history of collecting. Porcelain from Yves Saint Laurent’s collection and dining tables with a Buckingham Palace provenance bring their own stor
New York, 1983. In Joann and Gifford Phillips’s apartment, an Arshile Gorky and a Mark Rothko share the living room with a Gaudí stool and a Mies van der Rohe chair. Elsewhere, a Picasso and Henri Matisse’s standing nude of 1901 ar
At Villa Panza in Varese, Italy, an 18th-century residence became a place where artists could rethink the relationship between art, architecture and perception. Beginning in the 1950s, Count Giuseppe Panza di Biumo and his wife Giovanna assembled on
A yellow basketball hoop, found on the rocks in Karlshamn, changed how Matti Hoffner @matti_hoffner made art. Preparing his graduation project at Konstfack, he felt lost. The abandoned ring gave him a starting point. A circle could suggest a face; a
The women in Roy Lichtenstein’s Two Nudes (1994) were originally fully dressed. Their poses come from a 1963 issue of Girls’ Romances. Returning to the comics that had helped establish his visual language three decades earlier, Lichtenst
Bram Van Meervelde’s Antwerp apartment offers a glimpse into a collector’s lifelong appetite for discovery. The artist and dealer, known here as @ouaizda, began collecting shark teeth as a child. Today, his searches take him through t
Sir Paul Smith @paulsmith and Pauline Denyer’s west London home has grown around a shared love of British art. Works by David Hockney, Patrick Procktor, Peter Blake and Derek Boshier fill a house whose interiors have evolved gradually, through
When I described Maitha Abdalla’s @maithaabdalla new landscapes as uninhabited, her first answer was “No.” We were in Paris recording The Art Bystander Podcast. The Emirati artist agreed that the figures had gone from view. I had t
Last night, November 4, at 19 East 64th Street, two masters of postwar art met in New York City, curatorially speaking, for the first time. Their first meeting in the city is actually commemorated by an incredible photograph taken in 1975, on the occ
Rashid Johnson shares a birthday with his son. ‘Birthday Boys’, now on view at Hauser & Wirth’s Wooster Street gallery in New York, takes that connection into the complicated territory of parenthood: learning to recognise the pe