For the love of Jenny Holzer. “PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I WANT.” Few artists understood the public nervous system before the internet did. Before text became content, before the feed became confession, Holzer was already placing language wh
Giorgio Armani’s farmhouse in Forte dei Marmi is a study in power without display. From the outside, it remains almost disarmingly modest: a rustic Tuscan house set among maritime pines near the sea. Inside, Armani transformed it with the same
Linda Pinto inherited the Paris home of her brother, the decorator Alberto Pinto, and remade it in her own language. Still grand, still layered, but softer and more lived-in. Overlooking the Seine in the 7th, it carries the Pinto signature at full vo
Jonathan Anderson @jonathan.anderson second Dior @Dior Haute Couture collection came with an art-history trail worth following. Lynda Benglis was the starting point. Her sculptural folds, knots, pleated metal works, and luminous Peacock series echoe
Gilot, Picasso, Miró, O’Keeffe, Emin, Haring, de Saint Phalle, Mitchell, Twombly, Hockney, Warhol, Frankenthaler, Basquiat… all relaxing at the beach. Ah how much I love the summer! #theartbystander #beachlife #beachlover #modern
Nicos Valsamakis, House in Filothei, 1963. Postwar Greek modernism at its most precise, and quietly its most radical. The geometry here is not cold. It is calibrated. Textured surfaces soften it, shaded thresholds slow it down, and the plan opens o
There is a person at every private view who has never been told the rules and follows all of them anyway. They arrive at the right time, which is not the opening time. They ask the gallerist one question, and it is the question that reveals they und
Discover David Hanes @davidhanes.info who paints landscape the way memory works: slowly, unreliably, and with more truth than any photograph. Born in Toronto in 1987 and based in London, he begins outdoors with small sketches made on site. Then he
Inside Palazzo Scapucci, one of Rome’s rare residences still crowned by a medieval tower, Alessandro Michele @alessandro_michele has made a home that feels less designed than excavated. The former Gucci creative director, now at the helm of Va
In 1991, Architectural Digest went inside Madonna’s Upper West Side apartment: a three-unit sanctuary designed by her brother Christopher G. Ciccone with architect Stephen Wang. The rooms were subdued glamour done with real discipline. Early
20 Great American Artists, non-exhaustive of course. Who are your favorites, dead or alive? Tell us in the comments. 1. Georgia O’Keeffe. Magnified flowers and desert bones, American modernism’s quiet radical. 2. Jackson Pollock. Flung p
The latest podcast is live. I met Miramar Al-Nayyar for a conversation about the desert rose, solitude, and what it means to paint under pressure. The Iraqi artist’s UK solo debut opens today at Saatchi Yates, London, and at 29 she is the ina
A warm happy birthday dear Dame Tracey, I love you and your whole artistic practice. Wishing you all the best ❤️ @traceyeminstudio #traceyemin #theartbystander
Inside Elie Khouri’s Dubai villa at Bvlgari Residences, art isn’t decoration. It’s the structure the home is built around. Designed by architect Riccardo Robustini, the villa unfolds as a living gallery, where contemporary art, col
María Berrío’s work begins with paper, but quickly becomes something closer to myth. Since discovering traditional Japanese washi in 2007, Berrío has built a layered practice that combines watercolour, collage, and fragmen
Tory Burch’s Paris home doesn’t read as a decorated interior. It reads as an argument: art, design, history, and personal taste made to agree with each other. A 1945 Man Ray hangs above the fireplace, setting the register for a house whe
Now on view at @metmuseum: ”Giacometti in the Temple of Dendur” At The Met Fifth Avenue, Alberto Giacometti’s attenuated figures meet one of New York’s most iconic museum spaces: the Temple of Dendur. Co-organized with the F