Nicos Valsamakis, House in Filothei, 1963. Postwar Greek modernism at its most precise, and quietly its most radical. The geometry here is not cold. It is calibrated. Textured surfaces soften it, shaded thresholds slow it down, and the plan opens o
There is a person at every private view who has never been told the rules and follows all of them anyway. They arrive at the right time, which is not the opening time. They ask the gallerist one question, and it is the question that reveals they und
Discover David Hanes @davidhanes.info who paints landscape the way memory works: slowly, unreliably, and with more truth than any photograph. Born in Toronto in 1987 and based in London, he begins outdoors with small sketches made on site. Then he
Inside Palazzo Scapucci, one of Rome’s rare residences still crowned by a medieval tower, Alessandro Michele @alessandro_michele has made a home that feels less designed than excavated. The former Gucci creative director, now at the helm of Va
In 1991, Architectural Digest went inside Madonna’s Upper West Side apartment: a three-unit sanctuary designed by her brother Christopher G. Ciccone with architect Stephen Wang. The rooms were subdued glamour done with real discipline. Early
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: