More than 700 art-world emails landed in my inbox this August. Twenty made it into THE EDIT. Sotheby’s is moving into property and hospitality. Miami Beach may spend millions to keep Art Basel. Museums are sharing acquisitions they can no long
At the edge of an infinity pool on Antiparos, Leiko Ikemura’s bronze Good Rabbit faces the Aegean. Inside, a patchwork seascape by Sean Scully hangs opposite a five-metre work by Amy Sillman, while a raw-canvas triptych by Martha Jungwirth fill
Minimalism was never simply an aesthetic of less. It changed the relationship between object, body and space. Curated by Lawrence Van Hagen (@lawrencevh), founder of @lvh_art, Minimal Legends reopens today at the Vincenzo De Cotiis Foundation in Ven
Andres Serrano made the Immersions series between 1987 and 1990, submerging devotional objects and statuettes in urine, blood and milk and photographing them in rich, saturated colour. The liquids soften and distort the objects while giving them an u
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Boris Vervoordt grew up inside his father Axel’s particular world of art, antiques and architecture. His apartment at Kanaal reveals what he has done with that inheritance. Set at the top of former grain silos within an 1857 malting distillery
The story begins with food hidden inside coffins. During WWII, Michèle Lamy’s @lalamichmich family smuggled provisions through Nazi checkpoints to members of the Resistance. Scarlett Rouge @scarlettrouge calls it “the nutrients
When Iria Leino died in 2022, her SoHo loft held a lifetime of paintings and hundreds of journals. She had worked there since the 1960s, largely outside the gallery system. Now her work can be viewed at the amazing exhibition ’Inner Light&rsquo
At Place du Palais Bourbon, opposite the Assemblée Nationale, Michèle Lamy @lalamichmich and Rick Owens @rickowensonline have lived and worked since 2004 in a building that once housed the French Socialist Party and François Mitt
Karl Lagerfeld’s apartment at Le Roccabella in Monte Carlo was one of the most complete Memphis @memphis_milano interiors ever assembled. He moved into the large modern apartment in 1981, the same year the Memphis Group made its debut in Milan
In Yubaba Yaga, Anetta Lukjanova @anettalukjanova brings together the technical discipline of atelier painting with mysticism, pop culture and the shifting image of female power. Even the title is a hybrid, folding Yubaba from Hayao Miyazaki’s
The most convincing collectors’ homes are rarely perfectly coherent. They reveal different appetites, periods and points of view. In Southampton, entrepreneurs and collectors Jen Rubio and Stewart Butterfield @stewart have transformed a 1910s
The tributes to Mathilde Favier this week have returned again and again to the same things: her warmth, loyalty, humour, courage and unmistakable joy in life. Favier, Dior Couture’s director of public relations, passed away on Monday at the ag
After its major presentation at Tate Modern in London, Tracey Emin’s ’A Second Life’ travels to @louisianamuseum this autumn. Spanning almost four decades, the exhibition brings together painting, drawing, sculpture, textile, film
Next month, Jonatan Leandoer Håstad, better known as @yunglean2001, will present ten years of visual work at Torsgatan 22 in Stockholm. Sept 25 - Oct 11. Free for all! Collected Works 2016–2026 brings together paintings, collages and scu
Carine Roitfeld’s @carineroitfeld home is less a decorated interior than an exercise in editing. When the legendary French editor and stylist moved into this 1,000-square-foot, one-bedroom flat, she reduced her art and fashion collections to th
Valentino Garavani, immaculate in white, seated at Chalet Gifferhorn in Gstaad among three pugs and a flock of François-Xavier Lalanne’s Moutons de Laine. Photographed by Lukas Wassmann in 2010, the image feels less staged than perfectly