Few buildings have been so completely absorbed into cultural mythology. Perched on Punta Massullo, high above the Mediterranean, Villa Malaparte is at once fortress, sculpture, stage and autobiography. Commissioned by the writer Curzio Malaparte in
The ecclectic Berlin apartment of Peggy Gou, the acclaimed South Korean DJ, producer and singer-songwriter. In the much-shared 2020 iteration seen here, a powder-blue 370 sofa by Pierre Augustin Rose sits against bespoke floor-to-ceiling shelving b
Snapshots from an afternoon spent at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark. My favourite museum in the world. #louisianamuseum @louisianamuseum #artmuseum #denmark #art #theartbystander
The art market loves the idea of the next-generation collector. Yet it remains remarkably poor at creating one. In 2025, dealers reported that 49 per cent of their buyers were new to their business. It sounds like growth—but “new”
Lucian Freud is remembered as a painter of flesh. Louisiana shows him first as an artist of the line, and the result is a wonderful and inspiring exhibition with the giant. Lucian Freud: Everything Is a Portrait follows his lifelong fixation on the
LOVEABLE ARTWORK SERIES Picasso painted ’Homme et femme nus’ on 25 October 1965, the day he turned 84. Worth knowing before you look; this is not an old man remembering desire from a safe distance. It is an artist who refuses to let erot
Michael Ovitz keeps an easel on standby in his dining room. When a guest suggests that a white Robert Ryman or an Ellsworth Kelly curve looks easy to make, he presses a buzzer. Paints and an apron arrive. The sceptic is invited to try. It is theatre,
Today, The Art Bystander on Instagram reaches 250,000 followers. I find the number hard to grasp. A quarter of a million people gathered around a shared belief: that art matters, not just as culture or market, but as a way of seeing the world. I am
Witness the (art) fitness. Thanks @saziso__ for this! ”One of my highlights from the Unlimited presentation at Art Basel 2023 was @augustasserapinas’ Physical Culture, artworks as gym machines with the weights swapped for plaster replic
Today, 14 July. France’s national day, and a reason to look at the culture that rewrote the language of art more than once. Twenty artists who changed how we see light, form, the body, memory and public space. 1. Claude Monet. Made light and
Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant began renting the farmhouse near Firle, East Sussex, in 1916. Both were central to the Bloomsbury Group and, with Roger Fry, to the Omega Workshops, which set out to dissolve the line between fine and decorative art. At
LOVEABLE ARTWORK Painted in 1955, Willem de Kooning’s Composition marks a decisive transition: from the confrontational figures of his celebrated Women series to the Abstract Urban Landscapes that followed between 1955 and 1958. “The la
Inside Nicola Del Roscio’s home in Gaeta. Revisiting the private world he built with Cy Twombly. Del Roscio brought Twombly to this coastal town in 1979. Twombly later built his own house and studio nearby, overlooking the Tyrrhenian Sea. He c
Amanda Sopuluchukwu Orakwue Offor (b. 2000, Chicago) @amanda_offor is a Nigerian-American artist working across painting, drawing, ceramics, glass and metal. Having begun her BFA at Cornell University, she has now graduated from the Slade School of F
Martina Mondadori and Ashley Hicks’s Milan apartment is less a decorated interior than a study in how taste is inherited, translated and made one’s own, and perhaps the most intimate expression of the world Mondadori has created through C
Inside Daniel Rueda’s apartment at Palazzo Bonaventura in Rome, where Renaissance architecture, modern art, and restrained collecting coexist with remarkable ease. Published by The World of Interiors with photographs by @matthieusalvaing, the
Few artistic partnerships have shaped our understanding of colour as profoundly as Anni and Josef Albers. After leaving the Bauhaus following the rise of Nazism, the couple emigrated to the United States in 1933, where they transformed modern art ed
Moodboard July 10, 2026 #theartbystander