Tracey Emin has spent four decades making art from what we are often taught to keep private: desire, shame, grief, loneliness and the vulnerability of the body. This Thursday, 8 October, Tracey Emin: A Second Life opens in the West Wing of Louisiana
Attilio Codognato’s Venetian home expressed a taste as distinctive as his jewellery. Empire furniture and antique sculpture shared rooms with some of the most irreverent art of the twentieth century. The fourth-generation jeweller, who died in
Painted ceilings, worn wallpaper and stainless steel. At La Casa del Pirata, the pleasure is in how these materials meet. In Mataró, near Barcelona, architect Raúl Sánchez has renovated a home with an extraordinary family histor
Jordan Wolfson’s Body Sculpture: the loneliness of a machine. A metal body hangs from a chain beneath a large red robotic arm. Two humanlike arms and hands extend from its front. It swings, drags itself and lowers towards the floor. It has no
At Casa del Atrio, Antonio Attolini Lack designed everything down to the door handles. Built in 1990 in Mexico City’s San Ángel neighbourhood, this private house reveals an architect thinking across every scale of domestic life. Generou
Who’s your creative style icon? Men’s edition. An artist’s eye often extends to what they wear. Colour, proportion, texture and silhouette can be as personal in a wardrobe as they are in a painting, a film or a room. For many creat
I’m very happy to have been invited by Villa Dagmar @villadagmarsthlm in Stockholm, part of the luxury hotel group Diplomat Collection, to present “Scales of Intimacy”, a selection of art from a private collection. Bringing togethe
There is something joyful about Lee Krasner. I feel it in the movement of her paintings and her appetite for trying again. I’m tired of seeing her introduced through someone else’s story. Her own work gives us more than enough. Born in B
Carlo Scarpa’s staircase at the Negozio Olivetti makes the simple act of moving between floors feel like an encounter with sculpture. Commissioned by Adriano Olivetti in 1957 and inaugurated in 1958, the showroom sits beneath the arcades of th
I haven’t posted about Keith Haring for a while. Sometimes I get tired of his aesthetics. The dancing figures, barking dogs and radiant babies have become so familiar that I almost stop seeing them. Then I return to the work, remember his geniu
In Washington, DC, Melissa Colgan @melissacolganinteriors has reshaped a historic Georgetown townhouse around the collection of Elizabeth Miller and Dan Sallick. Ornamental plasterwork, carved marble fireplaces and classical columns preserve the buil
In North Kensington, British fashion photographer, stylist and creative director Venetia Scott @venetialscott inhabits a former Victorian postal sorting office where home and photographic studio share the same expansive roof. Scott bought the proper
You know people and conversations that changes you? This is one of them. Mira Bernabeu made a clear decision when he became a gallerist: he would not exhibit his own work in his gallery. His experience as an artist would, however, shape the program
On the second floor of a 19th-century palace in central Madrid, architect Jon Albistur transformed a former showroom into a 300-square-metre home for a family of four. Exposed timber beams, reclaimed pine flooring and salvaged doors give the rooms a