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Opening today at @1miramadrid, LAS BABAS DEL DIABLO brings Chema López and Alain Urrutia into a conversation about painting, photography and the unstable distance between seeing and knowing..

The title comes from Julio Cortázar’s
Artist Tom Sachs has rebuilt Chanel’s 31 Rue Cambon inside his longtime SoHo studio. It is a boutique where nothing is for sale.

The cream awnings, mirrored walls and interlocking Cs are all there. Inside sit 31 Chanel suits, shoes, jewellery
Discover Mia Goldstein @miagolds  whose first solo exhibition in New York, ‘Handle With Care’, opens at The Journal Gallery @thejournalgallery in Tribeca.

Goldstein paints a corner of the contemporary art world that rarely receives atten
Maurizio Cattelan has been awarded the 2026 Preis der Nationalgalerie.

To mark the occasion, the Neue Nationalgalerie presents ‘NIGHT’, Cattelan’s first major solo exhibition in Germany.

Created for Mies van der Rohe’s glass
Selma Morshedi’s painting deals with themes including mirroring, identification, and is an exploration of forms of the historical narrative. 

Her work articulates the recesses of the human spirit, without recourse to the discourses of biology
At the edge of Hydra, inside a former slaughterhouse overlooking the Aegean Sea, Nari Ward’s Until That Day transforms one of Hydra’s most charged spaces into a meditation on migration, memory and belonging.

Created specifically for the
After three decades at the forefront of fashion, Stefano Pilati @stefanopilati chose Berlin as a new starting point. Away from the runway, the campaign and the constant pressure to produce an image, he has created a home that feels intensely personal
There was a time when Berlin’s lack of money seemed inseparable from its abundance of possibility. Empty buildings, low rents and unfinished spaces gave artists room to fail, experiment and begin again. It was never as romantic as it now sounds
Sunday style moodboard: David Hockney, RIP master of art and personal expression.

#theartbystander #davidhockney #art #style #styleicon
I recently visited Gerhard Richter’s Overpainted Photographs at LUMA Arles, and found myself returning to these small works with more intensity than to many paintings ten times their size. They begin with ordinary colour snapshots: family gathe
In Bogotá, interior designer and collector Lina Botero Zea @linaboteroz  daughter of the late Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero, has created a home in which inheritance is neither preserved at a distance nor reduced to a famous su
Today, 4 September, I entered Room 13 with Ylva Snöfrid @ylvasnofrid one of the artists whose work I feel most profoundly connected to. The date carried its own quiet geometry: the ninth month and the fourth day, 9 + 4 = 13. The final room, the
What interests me about Rosa Park @rosaliapark is that she has never simply worked with beautiful objects. She has built entire contexts around them, shaping the way we encounter a photograph, a piece of furniture, a building, a landscape or a work o
The women in Florïne Ïmo’s world are having a good time. They lounge, play, pose, pump petrol, ride motorcycles and carousels, appearing as angels, witches, sluts, princesses and girlbosses, sacred and ridiculous, vulnerable and dange
La Sierrazuela did not begin as an Andalusian lifestyle fantasy. Built in 1750 as a retreat for Jesuit monks, later inhabited by a Sufi community and found on Idealista with mustard-yellow walls and dated fittings, the cortijo outside Arcos de la Fro
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