Elle Decor Goes to Athens
Hip hotels, restaurant and museums are transforming the city of Socrates. Read excerpted article here.
Art & Culture
Prayers at an Exhibition: Bhutan’s Art and the Monks Who Protect It
On a recent afternoon, art handlers in T-shirts and tattoos paced the sixth-floor gallery of the Rubin Museum of Art, wielding levels and hammers as museum employees with clipboards leaned over tables laden with gold and bronze sculptures.
Sacred Acts
As the pace of change quickens in Bhutan, so do efforts to preserve its centuries-old Buddhist art. Jaime Gross heads into the Himalayas to report. Driving Bhutan’s single highway, a serpentine road hacked precariously into the side of a mountain and perpetually under repair, is an exercise in nerve. It averages 20 curves per mile, …
Mexican Evolution
Art collectors hungry for the next big thing direct their search south of the border. I’m standing outside a birthday cake of a building, a white stone mansion built in 1906. Just beyond it, paddleboats etch lazy circles on a green lake. Along the meandering paths of the surrounding Chapultepec Park, vendors hawk …
Surfacing: In Chicago, Slaughterhouses to Art Houses
“We’ve got 100-year-old businesses selling wholesale pork rinds and bulk-size canned tomatoes next to world-class galleries selling $50,000 paintings.” Stand on West Fulton Market in Chicago at around 3 p.m. and witness an incongruous changeover. Forklifts hauling greasy pallets of sliced bacon clear out, as bright young things in stiletto heels and luxury cars roll …
Surfacing: In Chicago, Slaughterhouses to Art Houses Read More »
Cultural Constructs
When is a whale not a whale? When it’s a scrupulous assemblage of plastic lawn chairs by Canadian artist Brian Jungen.
Just Back From Los Angeles: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
OCCUPATION Artists HOME BASE New York City SHOWSTOPPER Oldenburg and van Bruggen, who have lived, worked, and traveled together for the last 29 years, have been shuttling back and forth to L.A. in order to create their 65-foot-high, unfurling aluminum and stainless-steel Collar and Bow for the Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall
Just Back From Rome: Matthew Marks
“When I have limited time in Rome, I try to see works of art that are meant to be seen, and exist, only here” OCCUPATION Gallery owner HOME BASE New York ROMAN HOLIDAY Marks, who represents 25 international artists at his namesake Chelsea gallery, frequently travels abroad for art fairs and studio visits. He recently …
Peer Factor
When it comes to posing for portraits, artists are far more “guarded and controlling” than the average sitter, and “stingy in terms of what they’re willing to give,” according to David Robbins, who in 1986 immortalized 18 rising art stars, among them Jeff Koons and Jenny Holzer, in “Talent,” a series of