New York’s seven November evening sales carry combined low estimates above $1.7 billion. 64.2% of estimated value is already attached to guaranteed works, according to Artnet’s 12 November preview. The coming week will test how far compet
I love a house with history. At the Water Mill home of Marc Payot, president of @hauserwirth, and his wife, Susanne Mack Payot, the connection between past and present is unusually personal. Barbara Neski, the home’s original architect, taught
Alexandre de Betak @alexdebetak has spent more than thirty years creating moments that happen once. Dior’s mountain of flowers at the Louvre, Saint Laurent against the Eiffel Tower, the pink Jacquemus runway through a lavender field in Provence
I love George Rouy’s paintings for their energy, their colour and the vulnerability of the bodies he paints. I find them moving, sometimes uncomfortable, and full of a sensuality that becomes more complicated the longer I look. Francis Bacon i
Georg Baselitz’s final paintings return to the schoolhouse of his childhood, where private memory and German history occupy the same unsettling ground. Now on view at @gagosian in New York, “Meine Schule” was conceived and designed
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“A collection is like a puzzle,” Charles Riva @charlesriva tells me, describing how a painting can become part of your life while finding its place among the works you already own. We met in London to talk about the pleasure of collectin
Inside @jasperconran’s London home, a former ballroom becomes the setting for a very personal history of collecting. Porcelain from Yves Saint Laurent’s collection and dining tables with a Buckingham Palace provenance bring their own stor
New York, 1983. In Joann and Gifford Phillips’s apartment, an Arshile Gorky and a Mark Rothko share the living room with a Gaudí stool and a Mies van der Rohe chair. Elsewhere, a Picasso and Henri Matisse’s standing nude of 1901 ar
At Villa Panza in Varese, Italy, an 18th-century residence became a place where artists could rethink the relationship between art, architecture and perception. Beginning in the 1950s, Count Giuseppe Panza di Biumo and his wife Giovanna assembled on
A yellow basketball hoop, found on the rocks in Karlshamn, changed how Matti Hoffner @matti_hoffner made art. Preparing his graduation project at Konstfack, he felt lost. The abandoned ring gave him a starting point. A circle could suggest a face; a
The women in Roy Lichtenstein’s Two Nudes (1994) were originally fully dressed. Their poses come from a 1963 issue of Girls’ Romances. Returning to the comics that had helped establish his visual language three decades earlier, Lichtenst
Bram Van Meervelde’s Antwerp apartment offers a glimpse into a collector’s lifelong appetite for discovery. The artist and dealer, known here as @ouaizda, began collecting shark teeth as a child. Today, his searches take him through t