LOVEABLE ARTWORK SERIES: Georg Baselitz (1938–2026), The Gleaner (Die Ährenleserin), 1978. Oil and egg tempera on canvas. “The key lies in the orientation of the gleaner, searching for sustenance in a barren landscape: the figure is
The sculptures came first. Cy Twombly was assembling and whitewashing objects in Lexington, Virginia in the late 1940s, before anyone had seen a scribble. He set the practice aside around 1959, picked it up again in 1976, and never stopped. When he d
An artist trained to control the image is now teaching it to escape her and I just love it. French painter Sophie Dherbecourt @sophiedherbecourt born in 1992 and based in London, studied graphic design in Lille and worked as an art director in Paris
In 2016, Lord and Lady Attenborough’s private collection of Picasso ceramics went on sale. Perhaps the finest in private hands, built over 50 years of family holidays in the south of France. It started in 1954. The Attenboroughs stayed on the
Some interiors are assembled to be photographed. Others show how their owners actually see. Chez Nacho Polo and Robert Onuska, New York. High inside Herzog & de Meuron’s 56 Leonard in Tribeca, the home of @nachopolo and @onuska belongs to
Phillips pulled the painting three weeks before the sale. Not a forgery. Not a title dispute. A clause. Buried in an invoice from a previous sale, one the owner says he was never shown, sat an auction ban and a right of first refusal. The work was h
At Floragatan 13 in Stockholm, Sweden, architecture is not a container for the brand. It is how Acne Studios explains itself. The ten-storey building was completed in 1972 as the Embassy of Czechoslovakia, designed by Czech architect Jan Bočan. Conc
For this summer episode, I’m joined by The Art Daddy for their first-ever interview. The Art Daddy is a New York City-based art and culture reporter, critic, educator and artist who has spent more than a decade covering the contemporary art wo
LOVEABLE ARTWORK SERIES: Francis Bacon, Triptych 1974–77⁠, Oil on canvas. ”The space of the triptych was indebted to Degas’s Beach Scene (c. 1876, National Gallery, London), which presumably also acted as a trigger for the umbrella
Few buildings have been so completely absorbed into cultural mythology. Perched on Punta Massullo, high above the Mediterranean, Villa Malaparte is at once fortress, sculpture, stage and autobiography. Commissioned by the writer Curzio Malaparte in
The ecclectic Berlin apartment of Peggy Gou, the acclaimed South Korean DJ, producer and singer-songwriter. In the much-shared 2020 iteration seen here, a powder-blue 370 sofa by Pierre Augustin Rose sits against bespoke floor-to-ceiling shelving b
Snapshots from an afternoon spent at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark. My favourite museum in the world. #louisianamuseum @louisianamuseum #artmuseum #denmark #art #theartbystander
The art market loves the idea of the next-generation collector. Yet it remains remarkably poor at creating one. In 2025, dealers reported that 49 per cent of their buyers were new to their business. It sounds like growth—but “new”
Lucian Freud is remembered as a painter of flesh. Louisiana shows him first as an artist of the line, and the result is a wonderful and inspiring exhibition with the giant. Lucian Freud: Everything Is a Portrait follows his lifelong fixation on the
LOVEABLE ARTWORK SERIES Picasso painted ’Homme et femme nus’ on 25 October 1965, the day he turned 84. Worth knowing before you look; this is not an old man remembering desire from a safe distance. It is an artist who refuses to let erot
Michael Ovitz keeps an easel on standby in his dining room. When a guest suggests that a white Robert Ryman or an Ellsworth Kelly curve looks easy to make, he presses a buzzer. Paints and an apron arrive. The sceptic is invited to try. It is theatre,
Today, The Art Bystander on Instagram reaches 250,000 followers. I find the number hard to grasp. A quarter of a million people gathered around a shared belief: that art matters, not just as culture or market, but as a way of seeing the world. I am
Witness the (art) fitness. Thanks @saziso__ for this! ”One of my highlights from the Unlimited presentation at Art Basel 2023 was @augustasserapinas’ Physical Culture, artworks as gym machines with the weights swapped for plaster replic