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One of my favorite icons: David Lynch (1946–2025) came to cinema through painting. 

Born in Missoula, Montana, he sustained a visual practice spanning painting, drawing, photography, printmaking and sculpture throughout his filmmaking career.
Revisiting a 17th-century farmhouse outside Roccalbegna, Tuscany, where @harrynuriev of @crosbystudios has made a family home with his partner @tylerbilly and Tyler’s parents.

From the outside, the stone house sits among olive trees and looks
There was something strangely meditative about standing with Michael Sailstorfer @michaelsailstorfer in Berlin while the floor beneath us was gradually being dismantled.

I met the German artist at Galerie Judin’s @galeriejudin Mercator Hö
Artwork Series: Mark Rothko. Two red fields occupy Rothko’s Untitled work of 1968. The larger form presses towards the smaller one beneath it, with a pale pink interval holding them apart. Along their edges, the acrylic varies in density; red g
In this West Village penthouse, the art collection shapes the rooms around it.

Heather Wells designed the interiors with Amanda Sullivan Studio Architecture, bringing saturated colour, sculptural furniture and carefully worked metal into conversatio
Built into a wooded hillside in Nottinghamshire, this house was designed by David Shelley in 1970 for a way of living that felt unusually open at the time.

A spiral staircase leads to the main floor, where full-height glazing looks into the trees an
My friends at DOD Gallery @definition_of_done  present Always The Sun, a group exhibition curated by Daniel Kirschbaum.

We tend to think of gardens as natural places. They are anything but. A garden is planted, shaped and protected. It offers beauty
More than an exhibition, this is going to be a destination for Stockholm.

I was deeply impressed by Jonatan Leandoer Håstad’s Collected Works 2016–2026, curated by @silcworm, both by the sheer breadth of the work and by the ambitio
Revisiting the home of Baron Axel and Baroness May Vervoordt at ’s-Gravenwezel Castle, just outside Antwerp. 

The castle began as a 12th-century stronghold, while its Rococo façade overlooking the park dates from 1745. Axel and May boug
“Pathos makes people small.”

When I met Erwin Wurm in Stockholm, he spoke about the heaviness of the art he grew up with, its masculine authority and his desire to approach the big questions of our lives with lightness, absurdity and joy
Art shares the room with everyday life at Vipp Apartment in Copenhagen, where a new collaboration with von Bartha brings ten artists into a home above the Danish design company’s flagship store.

The selection gives the rooms more to consider t
William Kentridge has spent more than four decades turning drawing into a way of thinking through history. Charcoal marks appear, disappear and return; figures fracture and reassemble; traces of erasure remain visible on the page. Nothing is permitte
Ryan Murphy has taken one of Richard Neutra’s most celebrated houses and refused to treat it as a midcentury period piece.

Built in 1955 and owned for two decades by Tom Ford, the Los Angeles landmark is said to have helped shape Ford’s
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