Alexander Calder was born in Philadelphia on 22 July 1898, although for much of his life he believed his birthday was 22 August. When he requested his birth certificate in 1942, Philadelphia City Hall confirmed the July date. Calder paid them to look
Villa Nara Mondadori is a rare piece of Brazilian modernism on the Côte d’Azur. Commissioned by Italian publisher Giorgio Mondadori and his wife Nara, the residence was conceived by Oscar Niemeyer in 1968 and completed in the early 1970s
Jaime Gutiérrez Lega’s home and studio on Bogotá’s rural edge may be his most revealing design. Widely regarded as the father of Colombian industrial design, Gutiérrez Lega conceived the property as two distinct volu
David Hockney at work on A Year in Normandie, the monumental frieze that turns close observation into a measure of time. Created between 2020 and 2021, the ninety-metre composite iPad painting follows the landscape around Hockney’s former stud
LOVEABLE ARTWORK SERIES: Georg Baselitz (1938–2026), The Gleaner (Die Ährenleserin), 1978. Oil and egg tempera on canvas. “The key lies in the orientation of the gleaner, searching for sustenance in a barren landscape: the figure is
The sculptures came first. Cy Twombly was assembling and whitewashing objects in Lexington, Virginia in the late 1940s, before anyone had seen a scribble. He set the practice aside around 1959, picked it up again in 1976, and never stopped. When he d
An artist trained to control the image is now teaching it to escape her and I just love it. French painter Sophie Dherbecourt @sophiedherbecourt born in 1992 and based in London, studied graphic design in Lille and worked as an art director in Paris
In 2016, Lord and Lady Attenborough’s private collection of Picasso ceramics went on sale. Perhaps the finest in private hands, built over 50 years of family holidays in the south of France. It started in 1954. The Attenboroughs stayed on the
Some interiors are assembled to be photographed. Others show how their owners actually see. Chez Nacho Polo and Robert Onuska, New York. High inside Herzog & de Meuron’s 56 Leonard in Tribeca, the home of @nachopolo and @onuska belongs to
Phillips pulled the painting three weeks before the sale. Not a forgery. Not a title dispute. A clause. Buried in an invoice from a previous sale, one the owner says he was never shown, sat an auction ban and a right of first refusal. The work was h
At Floragatan 13 in Stockholm, Sweden, architecture is not a container for the brand. It is how Acne Studios explains itself. The ten-storey building was completed in 1972 as the Embassy of Czechoslovakia, designed by Czech architect Jan Bočan. Conc
For this summer episode, I’m joined by The Art Daddy for their first-ever interview. The Art Daddy is a New York City-based art and culture reporter, critic, educator and artist who has spent more than a decade covering the contemporary art wo
LOVEABLE ARTWORK SERIES: Francis Bacon, Triptych 1974–77⁠, Oil on canvas. ”The space of the triptych was indebted to Degas’s Beach Scene (c. 1876, National Gallery, London), which presumably also acted as a trigger for the umbrella
Few buildings have been so completely absorbed into cultural mythology. Perched on Punta Massullo, high above the Mediterranean, Villa Malaparte is at once fortress, sculpture, stage and autobiography. Commissioned by the writer Curzio Malaparte in
The ecclectic Berlin apartment of Peggy Gou, the acclaimed South Korean DJ, producer and singer-songwriter. In the much-shared 2020 iteration seen here, a powder-blue 370 sofa by Pierre Augustin Rose sits against bespoke floor-to-ceiling shelving b
Snapshots from an afternoon spent at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark. My favourite museum in the world. #louisianamuseum @louisianamuseum #artmuseum #denmark #art #theartbystander
The art market loves the idea of the next-generation collector. Yet it remains remarkably poor at creating one. In 2025, dealers reported that 49 per cent of their buyers were new to their business. It sounds like growth—but “new”