Meet the Artists Pushing Ecological Art Forward
No matter how high the thermometer climbs in L.A., Ron Finley never fills his backyard swimming pool with water. The fashion designer turned artist and urban gardener—he’s famous for an …
Art & Design
Artist Drake Carr Casts His Muses in Glam Fantasies—From Dive Bars to Fashion Magazines
Drake Carr, a Christian boy from a tiny Michigan suburb a few miles outside of Flint, moved to New York City in 2015 because “this is where you move if …
All the Must-See Exhibitions and Events
During Art Basel Miami Beach, the city has more parties and events than it does palm trees. From the satellite fairs to gallery openings and parties hosted at every major …
Bárbara Sánchez-Kane Transforms Fashion into Avant-Garde Art
The Mexican artist Bárbara Sánchez-Kane started out as a fashion designer—albeit a highly unconventional one. Her gender-bending collections, shown at New York, Los Angeles, and Mexico City fashion weeks over …
Manuela Wirth on Transforming Hauser & Wirth Into So Much More Than a Gallery
Hauser & Wirth, the gallery that you and your husband, Iwan Wirth, jointly run, is a global juggernaut. You grew up in the Swiss countryside. Did you inherit a passion …
Cartier Keeps the Trinity 100 Celebration Going at Art Basel Miami
For decades, Jean Cocteau, the French Dadaist who wrote the novel Les Enfants Terribles and made surrealist films including Orpheus, wore two Cartier Trinity rings on his left pinky. In …
Eye-Opening Stats on Trends, Sales & A.I.’s Impact
Introducing W’s newest column, “By the Numbers,” in which we look at a given field—from art and fashion to music and movies—through the metrics that are defining it. Bringing together …
Meet the Collectors Reshaping the Art World Piece by Piece
The first thing you see when you walk into Lyndon J. Barrois Sr. and Janine Sherman Barrois’s house in L.A.’s Lafayette Square is a pair of paintings by Kehinde Wiley …
Inside ICA Miami’s Exclusive Kickoff Parties for Art Basel 2024
On Monday, December 2, one of the best places in Miami to admire art wasn’t at a fair preview or a gallery, but at the private waterfront estate of Kris …
For Sophie Calle, the Art of Oversharing Means Not Sharing Much at All
A couple of days before I was to meet Sophie Calle, a friend from New York who is a collector had an observation about the French artist: “She’s a hard …