Joan Miró understood something that art still keeps forgetting: play is not the opposite of seriousness. His worlds look light at first, almost childlike: floating stars, strange birds, comic signs, bodies reduced to a few lines and dots. But
In Paris, adidas Originals opened its Stan Smith residency with TTGT Studio, treating one of the world’s most recognizable sneakers not as footwear, but as a blank cultural object. The strongest moment was Yung Lean’s live painting. Usin
Born in Montreal on June 27, 1913, Philip Guston moved to California in 1919. Largely self-taught, apart from a brief stint at Otis Art Institute in 1930, he drew on Giorgio de Chirico and Pablo Picasso, the Mexican muralists, and Italian Renaissance
Here is a refined IG editorial caption: A house as collection, and a collection as autobiography. In Brentwood, Edythe and Eli Broad’s Los Angeles home became one of the great private stages for postwar and contemporary art. Originally based
Housden House, South Hill Park, London, 1963–65, by Brian Housden. Built by the architect for his own family, Housden House is one of London’s great private experiments in post-war domestic architecture. A concrete post-and-slab structur
As Europe moves through an exceptional early-summer heatwave, with temperatures pushing around 40°C across parts of the continent, the idea of retreat suddenly feels less decorative and more essential. High on a hill in Montespertoli, about 20 k
At STUGAN yesterday, Olle Witt completed the first work created within our new residency on Skeppsholmen. One artist. One week. One newly created work. Witt, born on Värmdö in 1998 and based in Stockholm, brings a philosophical attention
Inside Hervé Van der Straeten’s jewel-box apartment on Paris’s Île Saint-Louis, design becomes cultural composition. The furniture designer and his husband, Bruno Frisoni, former artistic director of Roger Vivier, found a 17
As a spectacle, phenomenon and syndrome of relentless instincts, the alternative art fair has endangered not just the arts but the world at large for decades with its continuously fresh ideás and unhinged explorations. Endangerment is equal
Carlijn Jacobs turns the self-portrait into performance. At Acne Paper Palais Royal in Paris, works from the cover story of Autoportrait, the latest issue of Acne Paper, are now on view in the magazine’s permanent gallery space. Featuring Lul
In a quiet Milanese suburb of conventional Art Nouveau estates, a 1970s hymn to Italian brutalism stands as a masterclass in structural drama. A concrete time capsule, untouched.⁠ ⁠ Designed by Como-based architect Francesco Castiglioni, the home tur
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Few artist-model relationships in postwar British painting are as charged or sustained as that of Frank Auerbach and Juliet Yardley Mills. Auerbach met J.Y.M., a professional model, in the 1950s. She began sitting for him in 1963 and became one of t
Julie Mehretu’s *Uprising of the Sun* brings one of contemporary art’s most distinctive abstract languages into direct contact with public architecture. Set on the north façade of the Obama Presidential Center’s museum in C
Inside @corallalife_’s home in Piazza Navona, Rome. This is not an apartment with a view. It is a private world suspended inside Palazzo Massimo Lancellotti, one of the historic palaces on Piazza Navona, built for the de Torres family and comp
Anish Kapoor at the Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg is a reminder that some of Germany’s most ambitious museum moments do not happen in Berlin, Munich or Hamburg, but in the Ruhrgebiet. Kapoor, born in Mumbai in 1954 and based between London and