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“Pathos makes people small.”

When I met Erwin Wurm in Stockholm, he spoke about the heaviness of the art he grew up with, its masculine authority and his desire to approach the big questions of our lives with lightness, absurdity and joy
Art shares the room with everyday life at Vipp Apartment in Copenhagen, where a new collaboration with von Bartha brings ten artists into a home above the Danish design company’s flagship store.

The selection gives the rooms more to consider t
William Kentridge has spent more than four decades turning drawing into a way of thinking through history. Charcoal marks appear, disappear and return; figures fracture and reassemble; traces of erasure remain visible on the page. Nothing is permitte
Ryan Murphy has taken one of Richard Neutra’s most celebrated houses and refused to treat it as a midcentury period piece.

Built in 1955 and owned for two decades by Tom Ford, the Los Angeles landmark is said to have helped shape Ford’s
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Frida Kahlo above a cabinet. Andy Warhol’s Jackie Kennedy repeated six times in blue around the corner. This is not an apartment with art added to it. It is a private collection that required an apartment.

Roric Tobin Designs created this doub
“If I was going to open a gallery, it needed to have a very personal identity.”

I met Cy Schnabel (@cschnabel) at Villa Magdalena (@villamagdalena33) in Madrid during @arte_madrid Weekend.

Born in New York in 1993 to Julian Schnabel and
At Galerie Aveline @galerie.aveline in Paris, Fahad Hariri @f.r.hariri has arranged three centuries of furniture, art and objects as a collector’s home. PINTO x AVELINE offers a look at the taste of @pintoparis Chairman and Creative Director, a
Craft x Tech Tokai Project at the V&A for its second edition at London Design Festival.

Founded by engineer and designer Dr Hideki Yoshimoto @hdk.yoshimoto with curatorial direction from curator Maria Cristina Didero @mcdidero, Craft x Tech is a
In 1982, the year he represented France at the Venice Biennale, Simon Hantaï withdrew almost completely from the public art world. He did not, however, stop painting.

Between 1982 and 1985, working alone, he produced the group now known as dern
Some discoveries come scandalously late. Bengt Falk is 90 years old. For over six decades, he has worked from his home in Högsbo, Gothenburg, producing around 500 embroidered works. Now CFHILL @cfhillofficial presents Människan och livet, h
High above the cliffs of Tamarama, @flackstudio_ has created one of Sydney’s least beachy beach houses.

Completed in 2023, the three-level residence originally had a conventional white-and-travertine Hamptons interior. For its New York-born ow
I spent an afternoon at @neuenationalgalerie, one of Berlin’s essential destinations for both art and architecture.

The building alone is reason enough to visit. Completed in 1968, it was the last major project by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The
Berlin doesn’t have one of the big international art fairs that its Art Week revolves around (after several failed trials), with Positions Art Fair in the old Tempelhof Airport being the biggest. 

But what makes Berlin Art Week so unique, next
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