To call Andy Warhol one of the most important artists since the Industrial Revolution may sound excessive. I think it is precise. Industrial modernity transformed how objects are produced, images distributed, desire organised and identity consumed.
Jacques Couëlle did not place a house in the landscape. He made the house behave like one. Created in the early 1960s at Castellaras, high above Cannes, the Sculpture House is one of five experimental residences known as Les Troglodytes, or &ld
For an artist born into one of the world’s most photographed families, Rocco Ritchie’s most compelling subject may be the pressure of being seen. Born in Los Angeles in 2000 and now based in London, Ritchie @roccoritchie studied fine art
Katharina Grosse in Palma de Mallorca @katharina_grosse Colour has been entering these two buildings for six centuries. “While installing Arrels at La Llotja, I walked up to La Seu and found the Cathedral doing exactly what I’d been doi
RMV @rmvmusic and The Art Bystander welcome Hanna Tordai @hannatordai as the next artist in STUGAN, the studio residency on Skeppsholmen. This weekend, Hanna moves into STUGAN. Over the course of one week, she will create a single new work, to be pr
In the Engadin valley near St. Moritz, a farmhouse built in 1686 has been given a remarkable second life by @studioperegalli. Known locally as a chesa, the building combines a cream-coloured stone dwelling with a timber barn. In the 1970s, it was co
LOVEABLE ARTWORK SERIES: Joan Mitchell, La Grande Vallée IX, 1983. Oil on canvas. “The explosive surfaces and unusual color harmonies suggest the unbridled and regenerative power of nature.” Joan Mitchell Foundation The valley w
For NBA star @kevinlove, collecting art has become less about assembling famous names than finding a visual language for experiences that are difficult to articulate. Love began collecting seriously in his late twenties. His first contemporary acqui
Laura Ungaro’s Paris home began as a project her husband, the couturier Emanuel Ungaro, intended to complete himself. He first bought a ground-floor apartment in a 1910 building near the Luxembourg Gardens in 2008. When the three-storey flat a
Alexander Calder was born in Philadelphia on 22 July 1898, although for much of his life he believed his birthday was 22 August. When he requested his birth certificate in 1942, Philadelphia City Hall confirmed the July date. Calder paid them to look
Villa Nara Mondadori is a rare piece of Brazilian modernism on the Côte d’Azur. Commissioned by Italian publisher Giorgio Mondadori and his wife Nara, the residence was conceived by Oscar Niemeyer in 1968 and completed in the early 1970s
Jaime Gutiérrez Lega’s home and studio on Bogotá’s rural edge may be his most revealing design. Widely regarded as the father of Colombian industrial design, Gutiérrez Lega conceived the property as two distinct volu
David Hockney at work on A Year in Normandie, the monumental frieze that turns close observation into a measure of time. Created between 2020 and 2021, the ninety-metre composite iPad painting follows the landscape around Hockney’s former stud
LOVEABLE ARTWORK SERIES: Georg Baselitz (1938–2026), The Gleaner (Die Ährenleserin), 1978. Oil and egg tempera on canvas. “The key lies in the orientation of the gleaner, searching for sustenance in a barren landscape: the figure is
The sculptures came first. Cy Twombly was assembling and whitewashing objects in Lexington, Virginia in the late 1940s, before anyone had seen a scribble. He set the practice aside around 1959, picked it up again in 1976, and never stopped. When he d
An artist trained to control the image is now teaching it to escape her and I just love it. French painter Sophie Dherbecourt @sophiedherbecourt born in 1992 and based in London, studied graphic design in Lille and worked as an art director in Paris
In 2016, Lord and Lady Attenborough’s private collection of Picasso ceramics went on sale. Perhaps the finest in private hands, built over 50 years of family holidays in the south of France. It started in 1954. The Attenboroughs stayed on the