We all have a place we love to go.Β For the artist Marina KarellaΒ it is a studio in the Northern Dodecanese in Chora, a hillside village on the island of Patmos built around the fortified monastery of St. John the Theologian.Β From...
Presently covered by the sleeve of his winter jacket, the tattoo on Erwin Wurmβs arm, βOne minute forever,β evokes the series of action-based performative sculptures he conceived 21 years ago. Β For a One Minute SculptureΒ Wurm offers a handwritten instruction and/or...
Two full-scale cast-steel pigeons, each with strips of dynamite and a Blackberry phone tied to its back, sit quietly in Adel Abdessemedβs Parisian studio. Dressed in his trademark blue pants, a black shirt and a matching jacket, the forty-nine-year-old Franco...
British visual artist David Shrigley attempts to rock climb on the Greek island of Hydra and within minutes he draws an appreciative crowd. While he may be improvising for a photo shoot, performing isnβt new to him. Shrigley was an...
Sidonie-Gabrielle Coletteβs sparkling prose made her an international sensation. Although her fictional plots and characters are scandalous, her famous journal Paris from my Window is more subtle with its observations of nature and descriptions of the loyal tenants of the...
He wears a perfectly tailored suit, round glasses and polished shoes. With neither pride nor pretension, he stands next to three dress forms and smiles with modest assurance. He is showing three examples of design suffused with Asian references: an...
Walking into Mary Katrantzouβs London office, I encounter a happy Cyclops, a figure with a wide-open eye and long voluptuous hair wearing a dress from her 2009 collection inspired by perfume bottles. The portrait by artist/illustrator Craig Redman, who uses...
Impressionist painter Claude Monet in his 1873 painting Coquelicots drew a vibrant splash of red poppies across the lush green fields of the French countryside. French shoe designer Christian Louboutin has created a similar effect in todayβs fashion landscape. Did...
Presently covered by the sleeve of his winter jacket, the tattoo on Erwin Wurmβs arm, βOne minute forever,β evokes the series of action-based performative sculptures he conceived 21 years ago. Β For a One Minute SculptureΒ Wurm offers...
It all started with a drawing that American artist Kiki Smith made seven years ago of the long and wandering Hydra, the sea serpent in the sky, and its adjoining constellations Corvus (crow), Noctua (owl), Crater (chalice), Sextans (sextant) and...
Enter Nina Yasharβs home and you enter Nina Yasharβs eclectic universe where Italian Grazia Toderiβs aerial photo of the myriad twinkling lights of Londonβs night sky is the centrepiece of her collection. In the photograph, the brightest city lights trace...
For the Abu Dhabi Art programΒ Beyond: Artist Commissions,Β Pakistani artist Imran Qureshi chose the historic Al Jahili Fort in Al Ain to unveil his site-specific installation Morning And Night Sang A Duet Together For A Long Moment.Β In the fortβs courtyard he...
Itβs 10 am on the High Line in New York City, and two women in red cocktail dresses walk down the old railway turned greenway one after the other, each holding a book to her chest. Curator and director of...
Tony Cragg likes order. He likes to classify his sculptures, group them into families and think in terms of the relationships between those families. βI am very skeptical about throwing things at the wall and doing chance things, but art...
In the brightly lit living room of his yacht Guilty, Dakis Joannou displays his new set of publications 2000 Words conceived by his good friend and curator of the 2013 Venice art biennale Massimiliano Gioni. βMy relationship with Massimiliano goes...
In the luminous studio, nude women recline gracefully on couches. One of them, gleaming in the sun that streams through the skylight, looks as if she has been dipped in liquid gold like the woman in Goldfinger. Another, partly veiled...
Ron Aradβs iPhone screen displays an image of a painting, an elongated male figure in earth-toned colors reminiscent of a Modigliani. It is the portrait of his father at 23 painted by his mother when she was 21, younger than...
A mysterious black and white photograph, the detail of an entrance gate to the Locus Solus villa, adorns the cover of a book on Jean-Michel Othonielβs drawing table in the Marais district in Paris.Β Locus Solus, written by Raymond Roussel in...
The Villa Granaiolo in Castelfiorentino, once a 13th-century fortress, is where the Marchese di Barsento Emilio Pucci and his wife, Cristina, used to host glamorous parties in the 1960s. Visible from the green steps of the villa isΒ the former convent...
Alexia Antsakli Vardinoyanni interviews and photographs important cultural figures in their homes or studios to give an accurate, insightful, and even poetic account of their lives and experiences.