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During his first and only visit to Venice in 1908, Claude Monet famously told his wife that the floating city was “too beautiful to paint.” Yet, few works are as recognizable as his piece, “Le Grand Canal et Santa Maria della Salute,” a stunning inte

Curator Legacy Russell grew up in the East Village, being dragged to the same institutions she now programs. So, if you’ve been going to exhibitions in New York and are reading the introductory plaque text, you cannot have missed her—Russell is a for

Founded by musician, actor, and director Breanna Box and model Peter Dupont during the Covid lockdown (when they were trying to make their home “heaven”), Heven features vases, glassware, and signature devil-horned carafes, all hand-blown in Brooklyn

Luxury, wellness, fitness, and Michelin-starred cuisine come together in France’s celebrated Champagne wine region at the Royal Champagne Hotel & Spa in Champillon. The Modernist wine-country boutique hotel and wellness destination has set out to imp

Venezuelan sculptor Marisol Sol Escobar had a clear influence on Andy Warhol’s early work, and yet her rightful place in the Pop art pantheon has never been fully noted or celebrated. An upcoming exhibition at the Pérez Art Museum Miami endeavors to

This year’s Spring Art Issue is dedicated to the fearless women who are fully inhabiting the worlds of art and culture in imaginative and transgressive ways. From Cecilia Alemani’s visionary curation of the Venice Biennale, to abstractionist sculptor

There are times when you interview actors, and you suspect they are not so much listening to the questions you ask as waiting for their chance to plug whichever project they’re working on at the moment. (This is also frequently true of most conversat

Out of an impenetrable darkness, a single point of light floats into view. Others flit past slowly, whirling in every direction. A gentle flurry gathers momentum as the wind becomes more direct. Delivered into the midst of a blizzard, one squints int

For Kennedy Yanko, it all started in 2018. Not her art career, but a new chapter—the real chapter, the one she’d been searching for. After nearly a decade of creating sculptured marbled paint skins intertwined with found objects or shaped using rubbe

After serving as director of High Line Art in New York for 11 years, the Milan-born curator Cecilia Alemani is now the first Italian woman—and the fifth woman ever—to be appointed Curator of the prestigious Venice Biennale in the exhibition’s 127 yea

While countless couturiers are considered artists within their craft, Yves Saint Laurent is arguably the designer who most quickly comes to mind when conjuring the idea of a true fashion artiste. Through May 15, six Parisian museums are putting Saint