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
What happens when an apartment is designed to keep changing with the art inside it? In Paris, Luis Laplace and Christophe Comoy have turned an eighteenth-century apartment into a contemporary salon: a place to receive artists, curators and friends,
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Our New York contributor Natalie Kawam Yang met with Misha Japanwala. ”As I reached the attic landing of @mishajapanwala’s New Jersey home studio, its walls and surfaces displaying casts of breasts, nipples, hands, and torsos, my first
Twenty years of working with the same clients can give designers a rare understanding of how their taste changes. For this Central Park South apartment, Alexandra and Michael Misczynski of @atelier_am_inc drew on a relationship that has taken them t
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