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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
Inside Robert Motherwell’s Greenwich estate, art wasn’t displayed. It was lived with, worked through, stored, argued with, returned to.

The American painter, one of the defining figures of Abstract Expressionism, built his life around a
The art market just posted its strongest auction season in three years. So why does almost no one in it feel rich?

Because the headline and the structure underneath it stopped agreeing.

This spring, 79% of New York’s marquee evening sales wer
Discover May Cockcroft @may.cockcroft, a Cornish artist based in London and one of the standout young voices from the RCA2026 painting cohort.

Born in 2002, Cockcroft graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2024 before completing her MA in Painti
A London home with the instincts of a private museum, but the soul of a lived-in family house.

This is the newly renovated home of communications guru Matthew Freud (and great grandson of Sigmund) and Sheherazade Goldsmith, founder of @loquetlondon:
What does art give luxury that money can’t buy? During one weekend I had one conversation about luxury, in two settings; as art advisor and expert on two panels:

The Salesforce Luxury & Lifestyle Summit, on how the modern client moves betw
Joan Miró understood something that art still keeps forgetting: play is not the opposite of seriousness.

His worlds look light at first, almost childlike: floating stars, strange birds, comic signs, bodies reduced to a few lines and dots. But
In Paris, adidas Originals opened its Stan Smith residency with TTGT Studio, treating one of the world’s most recognizable sneakers not as footwear, but as a blank cultural object.

The strongest moment was Yung Lean’s live painting. Usin
Born in Montreal on June 27, 1913, Philip Guston moved to California in 1919. Largely self-taught, apart from a brief stint at Otis Art Institute in 1930, he drew on Giorgio de Chirico and Pablo Picasso, the Mexican muralists, and Italian Renaissance
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A house as collection, and a collection as autobiography.

In Brentwood, Edythe and Eli Broad’s Los Angeles home became one of the great private stages for postwar and contemporary art. Originally based
Housden House, South Hill Park, London, 1963–65, by Brian Housden.

Built by the architect for his own family, Housden House is one of London’s great private experiments in post-war domestic architecture. A concrete post-and-slab structur
As Europe moves through an exceptional early-summer heatwave, with temperatures pushing around 40°C across parts of the continent, the idea of retreat suddenly feels less decorative and more essential.

High on a hill in Montespertoli, about 20 k
At STUGAN yesterday, Olle Witt completed the first work created within our new residency on Skeppsholmen.

One artist. One week. One newly created work.

Witt, born on Värmdö in 1998 and based in Stockholm, brings a philosophical attention
Inside Hervé Van der Straeten’s jewel-box apartment on Paris’s Île Saint-Louis, design becomes cultural composition.

The furniture designer and his husband, Bruno Frisoni, former artistic director of Roger Vivier, found a 17
As a spectacle, phenomenon and syndrome of relentless instincts, the alternative art fair has endangered not just the arts but the world at large for decades with its continuously fresh ideás and unhinged explorations. 

Endangerment is equal
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