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
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