LOVEABLE ARTWORK SERIES: Cecily Brown, The Triumph of Death, 2019. Oil on linen, in four parts, 535.94 × 535.94 cm. “Through the act of painting, [Brown] transforms the scene into a lively ballet, a joyful, macabre dance.” Sylvain
The art world keeps confusing retrenchment with death. Adam Lindemann’s @adamlindemann1 mega-gallery column for @artnet has been rattling around my head since it ran. He’s right that the obituaries are premature, but I think the luxury-v
Villa Caffetto, Calcinato, Italy is a masterpiece to me. Architecture by Fausto Bontempi, designed in 1972 and built between 1973 and 1974. Artist and entrepreneur Claudio Caffetto did not simply want a family home. He asked his friend Fausto Bonte
RADICAL ROOMS Gufram @gufram was founded in Turin in 1966. Its first experiments were with polyurethane, a material developed for the transport industry. A group of young architects and artists turned that research into a revolution. Piero Gilardi.
At STUGAN yesterday, Hanna Tordai completed the second work created within the studio residency on Skeppsholmen. One artist. One week. One newly created work. Hanna Tordai explores an alternative, calculated, almost collapsing contact with the pr
At David Hockney’s Hollywood Hills home (he passed away spring 2026), the boundary between domestic space, studio and artwork almost disappears. He bought the house in 1978 and added the studio in 1983, transforming its discreet grey exterior
In the spring of 1972, Cy Twombly bought a dilapidated house in Bassano in Teverina, a small hill town north of Rome. He spent the next three years restoring it as a country home and summer studio. Bassano offered the artist distance from Rome and a
The most exclusive people you know can talk about anything. That is the exclusion. Watch it work. A collector at a fair dinner moves from a Rosemarie Trockel to a reality dating show without a gear change, and nobody flinches. Thirty years ago that
To call Andy Warhol one of the most important artists since the Industrial Revolution may sound excessive. I think it is precise. Industrial modernity transformed how objects are produced, images distributed, desire organised and identity consumed.
Jacques Couëlle did not place a house in the landscape. He made the house behave like one. Created in the early 1960s at Castellaras, high above Cannes, the Sculpture House is one of five experimental residences known as Les Troglodytes, or &ld
For an artist born into one of the world’s most photographed families, Rocco Ritchie’s most compelling subject may be the pressure of being seen. Born in Los Angeles in 2000 and now based in London, Ritchie @roccoritchie studied fine art
Katharina Grosse in Palma de Mallorca @katharina_grosse Colour has been entering these two buildings for six centuries. “While installing Arrels at La Llotja, I walked up to La Seu and found the Cathedral doing exactly what I’d been doi
RMV @rmvmusic and The Art Bystander welcome Hanna Tordai @hannatordai as the next artist in STUGAN, the studio residency on Skeppsholmen. This weekend, Hanna moves into STUGAN. Over the course of one week, she will create a single new work, to be pr
In the Engadin valley near St. Moritz, a farmhouse built in 1686 has been given a remarkable second life by @studioperegalli. Known locally as a chesa, the building combines a cream-coloured stone dwelling with a timber barn. In the 1970s, it was co
LOVEABLE ARTWORK SERIES: Joan Mitchell, La Grande Vallée IX, 1983. Oil on canvas. “The explosive surfaces and unusual color harmonies suggest the unbridled and regenerative power of nature.” Joan Mitchell Foundation The valley w
For NBA star @kevinlove, collecting art has become less about assembling famous names than finding a visual language for experiences that are difficult to articulate. Love began collecting seriously in his late twenties. His first contemporary acqui
Laura Ungaro’s Paris home began as a project her husband, the couturier Emanuel Ungaro, intended to complete himself. He first bought a ground-floor apartment in a 1910 building near the Luxembourg Gardens in 2008. When the three-storey flat a