For nearly 25 years, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles has been closely identified with its transformative director, Ann Philbin, who last year said that she planned to retire. On Monday the museum announced that it had found a worthy — if little kno
It was a Monday, and Billy Childish, perched atop a ladder in front of a large linen canvas, was brushing yellow onto his latest painting. Mondays are painting days for Childish, 64, who parks his green Saab outside his studio on the naval dockyards
lucky7 The Living Room Should Be for Living
2024-10-09The living room used to be considered a formal entertaining space — a room filled with fine furniture that was largely off-limits until the company arrived. But we’ve come a long way.lucky7 “I grew up with my parents’ living room furniture wrapped i
As a child in Nantes, France, the 26-year-old artist Victor Siret would often lose himself in the gothic foliage of a six-foot-long needlepoint canvas made by his grandmother, who started teaching him needlework when he was 10. When Siret went to ar
A few months ago, I brought the Ferrari creative team to Lago di Monate (1) outside of Milan to brainstorm the next fashion show. But we weren’t just putting together mood boards; we were sharing personal stories. My father, Giuseppe, who owned a ce
lolliplay The Power of Saying No
2024-10-09There’s a common misconception about the art business that states that, within the industry, there are essentially no rules. True, it’s a vast and murky marketplace with few regulations, but to succeed as an artist within it has often meant, for man
The martyrdom of St. Agatha is a particularly gory tale, even by biblical standards. Around A.D. 250, the young Sicilian virgin refused the advances of the pagan prefect Quintianus. In retaliationinfinity games, he imprisoned her in a brothel and la
How do you sift through Mexico City’s roughly 57,000 places to eat — more than twice as many as there are in New York City — and choose the most essential dishes? “In a city like Mexico City, how do you narrow it down? It’s insane. The exercise is a
How do we define furniture? It might seem like a silly question, but it’s one that kept coming up in October of last year, when, in a conference room on the 15th floor of The New York Times building, six experts — the architects and interior designe