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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
Inside Steinway Tower, Sebastian Zuchowicki’s latest project for Architectural Digest turns the Manhattan high-rise apartment into something far more layered than a luxury residence with a view. The 3,000-square-foot pied-à-terre, set i
Felicia Beck is part of a new generation of painters working instinctively between figuration, self-image and psychological theatre. Born in 2007, Beck is a young contemporary artist whose practice already moves across painting, image-making and cul
Claude Monet spent the last half of his life turning a single piece of ground into the thing he painted. He arrived in Giverny in 1883 and rented the pink house with its walled garden; by 1890 he had bought the property outright. What followed was f
Hermès @hermes has opened more than a store in London. At 166 New Bond Street, the French house has created something closer to a maison than a flagship: part residence, part museum, part architectural journey. Six Grade II-listed buildings,
James Turrell’s As Seen Below – The Dome is not simply a new museum installation. It is one of the most significant additions to the artist’s celebrated Skyspace series and a major cultural moment for ARoS. More than a decade in th
In Francis Bacon’s portraits of George Dyer, likeness is never the point. The face is a site of pressure, the body a field of collapse, compression and resistance. Dyer appears not as a stable subject, but as someone being held together by pain
“Estimated in the range of £200 million, this will be the most valuable single-owner collection ever offered at auction in Europe.” - Sotheby’s Joe Lewis, most known as the long-time majority owner of Tottenham Hotspur footba
A future house museum, an Italian wunderkammer, and the private world of Filippo Perego di Cremnago. In Villareale di Cassolnovo, within the Parco del Ticino, Perego’s buen retiro unfolds as a deeply personal universe: part residence, part arc
Before Sweden became an international fantasy of freedom, summer and skin, Anders Zorn had already painted it into being. Born in Mora in 1860, he rose from rural Dalarna to become arguably the most internationally successful Swedish artist who ever
Pierre Huyghe at Fondation Beyeler does not feel like entering an exhibition. It feels like entering a body. This was an amazing experience. The museum becomes a breathing mechanism. A living, unstable organism in which air, sound, image, machine in
The Parisian home of Jacques Garcia is exactly what one hopes it will be: theatrical, layered, excessive, learned, and entirely uninterested in the bland good taste of the moment. One of the great decorators of the past half-century, Garcia has buil
You are invited to the opening of STUGAN with Olle Witt RMV Music and The Art Bystander invite you to private view of STUGAN’s first Studio Residency, featuring Stockholm-based painter Olle Witt. Over the course of one week on Skeppsholmen, O
I had the privilege to meet with Lea Bischofberger, one of the friendliest persons in the art world, with such radiance. She is a Zurich-based gallerist and art dealer whose life and work are bound up with one of the most remarkable legacies in post