Salvador Dalí at home in Portlligat, dressed in a leopard-print shirt, swimming shorts and traditional Catalan espadrilles tied around the ankles. It is a wonderfully relaxed image of an artist usually remembered in full performance, his moust
The Rome home of fashion executive Margherita Crotti is a lesson in how to renovate without erasing the life that came before. The two-level apartment sits within a 1937 Rationalist building by Ernesto Puppo in the Trieste district, its rendered and
High above Los Angeles, in his Hollywood Hills compound, David Lynch created the life he had imagined as a young man: long days in the studio, coffee, cigarettes, music and the freedom to make things. To reach the room, you left the main house and cl
Ryan Lawson @ryanclawson and Sean Robins’ @seanbrobins midcentury house in Rancho Mirage is no period piece. Its architect is unknown, but its character was there: angled timber ceilings, lake views and hard desert light. Lawson softened the g
Buqaqawuli Nobakada @buqaqawuli.nobakada paints Black women into futures they have too rarely been given the space to imagine. They recline beside swimming pools, move through gardens and inhabit grand interiors with complete ease. They are not visit
Happy 32nd birthday to one of my absolute favourite contemporary artists George Rouy @georgerouy In little more than a decade, he has built one of the most recognisable figurative languages in British painting, although “figure” is never
La Cuadra San Cristóbal is not simply one of Luis Barragán’s most photographed buildings. It is one of the places where his architecture becomes most complete: house, landscape, water, colour and the movement of horses conceived a
The greatest wealth transfer in history will also move an extraordinary quantity of art. Deloitte and ArtTactic estimate that $992 billion in art and collectibles will pass between generations during the next decade. The figure is already circulatin
In the last years of his life, Henri Matisse built a chapel where colour no longer sat on a surface. It came through the windows and travelled across the room. The Chapelle du Rosaire in Vence began with a nursing student, Monique Bourgeois, who car
Born Andrew Warhola in Pittsburgh on 6 August 1928, Andy Warhol would have turned 98 today. Warhol saw before almost anyone that modern life would be mediated through images, and repetition could turn almost anything into desire, value or fame. Soup
Design Profile is a new The Art Bystander series devoted to the studios shaping contemporary interiors that also integrate art a lot in their practice, and to the histories, references and people behind their work. Founded in Madrid in 2014 by husba
A former bakery in Lower Manhattan has become the New York home of Yana Peel, global Head of Arts and culture at Chanel @chanel and former CEO of the Serpentine Galleries @serpentineuk Peel asked architect Jean-Gabriel Neukomm @jgneukomm and design
Happy Birthday! Born in Salt Lake City on 4 August 1945, Paul McCarthy has spent more than half a century forcing America to look at what it would rather conceal. Trained as a painter, he soon abandoned the limits of the canvas. In the 1970s, the bo
This an artist I deeply admire. Born in Karachi in 1962, Huma Bhabha arrived in the United States in 1981 to study at the Rhode Island School of Design, later at Columbia. She lives and works in Poughkeepsie, New York. For three decades she has buil
In the latest episode of The Art Bystander Podcast, I speak with Jérôme Pantalacci @pantalaccijerome founder and director of Art-o-rama @artorama_marseille in Marseille. At the end of August, I will travel to Marseille for the fair and
Willem de Kooning’s East Hampton studio was not designed to turn the artist into a myth. It was a place built around light, scale and the physical demands of painting. In the early 1960s, Willem and Elaine de Kooning settled in East Hampton, a
Thierry Gillier @thierrygillierzadig exchanged the white expanses of his former home in Paris’s 16th arrondissement for something altogether denser: a late-17th-century residence on rue de Verneuil, originally built for the Marquis d’Aub
The house on Hydra tends to get filed under Brice Marden’s name. Helen Marden found the Greek island first. She came in 1970 and brought Brice back the following summer. In 1973 they bought a modest place high above the port, reached by the ki