William Fletcher was only three years out of architecture school when he designed this house in 1953, his first fully realised residence and the home he created for himself, his wife Joyce and their family on almost two wooded acres in Dunthorpe, bet
The Barcelona Pavilion is one of the most influential buildings of the twentieth century, yet the original stood for less than a year. Designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich as Germany’s national pavilion for the 1929 Barcelona I
Returning to CHART @chart_artfair feels less like entering the international fair circuit than checking in on the Nordic art world itself. Now in its fourteenth edition, it has become a classic of the regional calendar, familiar without feeling tire
Bernar Venet is best known for bending industrial steel into monumental arcs and indeterminate lines. At the Fondation Venet in the Var, those forms enter a more intimate register. Home, studio, sculpture park and exhibition spaces occupy the same gr
In the New York townhouse of @jordan_roth, maximalism becomes autobiography. Created with Haynes-Roberts over three years for Roth, his husband, the writer Richie Jackson, and their son Levi, the house replaces the wood, steel and dark Prada suits of
First snapshots (no names, no mentions) from @artorama_marseille, which opens its 20th edition at La Friche la Belle de Mai with 37 galleries from 18 countries, alongside publishers, project spaces, design and the Immaterial Salon. What becomes clea
At the heart of Yael Aflalo @yaya_aflafo and Ludvig Frössén’s @frossen West Village townhouse is the art. A vast painting by Martha Jungwirth fills the living room, a Tal R sculpture stands by the windows and Sigmar Polke hangs in t
Van Gogh has become one of art history’s safest saints. SUSPECTS makes him dangerous again. At the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, the exhibition returns to the man his neighbours actually encountered: a foreigner in crisis, regarded with fe
Yayoi Kusama was never simply the artist of dots. She was the artist of self-obliteration, using repetition to dissolve the boundaries between body, object and world. Kusama died in Tokyo on 14 August at the age of 97, her studio announced today. Fe
Andy Warhol’s rhinestoned muse, and the author of her own image, Dolly Parton has died at 80. Warhol saw in Parton what he had seen in Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley and Elizabeth Taylor: a face that had become inseparable from American mass cu
More than 700 art-world emails landed in my inbox this August. Twenty made it into THE EDIT. Sotheby’s is moving into property and hospitality. Miami Beach may spend millions to keep Art Basel. Museums are sharing acquisitions they can no long
At the edge of an infinity pool on Antiparos, Leiko Ikemura’s bronze Good Rabbit faces the Aegean. Inside, a patchwork seascape by Sean Scully hangs opposite a five-metre work by Amy Sillman, while a raw-canvas triptych by Martha Jungwirth fill
Minimalism was never simply an aesthetic of less. It changed the relationship between object, body and space. Curated by Lawrence Van Hagen (@lawrencevh), founder of @lvh_art, Minimal Legends reopens today at the Vincenzo De Cotiis Foundation in Ven
Andres Serrano made the Immersions series between 1987 and 1990, submerging devotional objects and statuettes in urine, blood and milk and photographing them in rich, saturated colour. The liquids soften and distort the objects while giving them an u
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Boris Vervoordt grew up inside his father Axel’s particular world of art, antiques and architecture. His apartment at Kanaal reveals what he has done with that inheritance. Set at the top of former grain silos within an 1857 malting distillery
The story begins with food hidden inside coffins. During WWII, Michèle Lamy’s @lalamichmich family smuggled provisions through Nazi checkpoints to members of the Resistance. Scarlett Rouge @scarlettrouge calls it “the nutrients