Author: Juddy Miller

On Thursday night, Sotheby’s finished off a week of evening sales with a mostly energetic three-part auction of modern art that saw a Frida Kahlo painting sell for a record price of $54.7 million and brought in a combined $304.6 million inclusive of fees, well above a $211.3 million–$289.3 million pre-sale estimate. The evening started off with 13 artworks from the collection of Chicago-based Cindy and Jay Pritzker, followed by a group of Surrealist works. Last came a multiple-owner modern art auction. “Everyone keeps asking me if I’m emotional,” said Pritzker’s granddaughter, Abby Pucker, before the sale started, “but I’m excited for everyone to see…

Interior design is more than just aesthetics it’s about creating meaningful, functional spaces that reflect the identity and values of those who inhabit them. At the forefront of this philosophy stands Katie Harbison, an accomplished interior designer whose journey spans continents and cultures, culminating in a distinctive design style that marries modern sensibility with classical elegance. A Global Design Journey Katie Harbison’s path into the world of interior design began in Ireland, where she laid the foundation of her craft through formal study in Dublin. Her early education instilled a strong understanding of space planning, materiality, and the power of thoughtful…

Joel Azevedo interior design is a London based studio celebrated for its thoughtful, imaginative, and detail driven approach to creating beautiful spaces. At the helm is Joel Azevedo, a Brazilian born designer whose multicultural background and passion for storytelling through interiors breathe life into every project the studio undertakes. Specialising in both private residential and boutique commercial spaces, the studio has carved out a distinct aesthetic identity one that fuses tradition with a spark of the unexpected. Whether it’s a Victorian townhouse in West London or a sleek modern apartment in the city, Joel’s work is characterised by a commitment to…

Interior design is more than just arranging furniture, it’s storytelling through space. For Los Angeles based interior designer Kim Lapin, this story begins at home. What started as a series of passion projects with her husband, renovating and transforming their own properties soon evolved into a full fledged design studio, KLI (Kim Lapin Interiors). Raised in a family where the language of construction was second nature, Kim grew up surrounded by blueprints, renovation projects, and the creative energy that shaped her father’s career as a general contractor. With design quite literally in her blood, she developed a natural instinct for not…

Isabel Ladd is not your average interior designer. With an unapologetic love for color, pattern, and all things layered, she believes that design should be nothing short of joyful. Her design mantra, “More is more, less is a bore.” It’s a reflection of her personality fun, fearless, and full of life. Through her work, Isabel invites clients into a world where beige takes a backseat, matching is optional, and a home is a canvas for self expression. A Philosophy of Fun At the heart of Isabel’s design philosophy is one guiding principle, “Once your basic needs are met, do everything in…

Kasmin, a fixture of New York’s modern artwork scene for the final 35 years, will shut its doorways this fall. The closure coincides with the announcement of a brand new gallery, Olney Gleason, based by Kasmin’s president, Nicholas Olney, and head of gross sales, Eric Gleason. The brand new enterprise will debut in fall 2025 with a flagship house in New York. In line with a launch by Olney Gleason, the choice to conclude Kasmin’s operations was made in “shut collaboration” with the property of founder Paul Kasmin, who led the gallery till his passing in 2020. Plans for a…

CLEARING, the New York–primarily based gallery identified for championing artists like Marguerite Humeau, Korakrit Arunanondchai, and Harold Ancart, will shut its Manhattan and Los Angeles galleries. In an Instagram post, founder Olivier Babin mentioned there was “no viable path ahead” for the enterprise. The closure ends the gallery’s 14-year run, which started in 2011 in Brooklyn. CLEARING is the fourth main gallery to announce its closure up to now month, following BLUM, Venus Over Manhattan, and Kasmin.. In an interview with The Art Newspaper, Babin mentioned the gallery was “crushed by the overheads,” pointing to rising prices for lease, transport, and artwork gala’s alongside declining revenues. The gallery…

Ana Cláudia Almeida will now be co-represented by London and New York’s Stephen Friedman Gallery and Brazilian galleries Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel and Quadra, which every have branches in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. In September, Stephen Friedman Gallery will host the artist’s first New York solo present, “Over Once more,” which is able to embrace a site-specific set up in addition to new cloth works and large-scale work. Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1993, Almeida works with a wide range of supplies, together with paper, oil, plastic, and cloth, exploring themes akin to reminiscence, transformation, and nature. Her work is usually knowledgeable…

Hong Kong gallery De Sarthe has introduced it can relocate to a bigger area within the area this fall. The brand new gallery will open simply down the highway, within the Wong Chuk Hold neighborhood, on September Twentieth. The ten,000-square-foot gallery is positioned in Vita Tower, within the metropolis’s Southside artwork district, an space with rising numbers of galleries opening. De Sarthe’s earlier area within the neighborhood opened there in 2017. De Sarthe’s new gallery will embrace separate exhibition areas devoted to up to date artwork and Twentieth-century masterworks. Based in Paris in 1977, the gallery has operated areas in the USA…

Hauser & Wirth will broaden its West Coast footprint with a brand new gallery in Palo Alto, scheduled to open in spring 2026. The house will mark the gallery’s first location in Northern California and its third within the state, becoming a member of its current two venues in Los Angeles. The gallery will occupy a historic publish workplace constructing at 201-205 Hamilton Avenue in downtown Palo Alto, a brief distance from Stanford College. The early 1900s constructing options massive ground-level home windows and can home 2,600 sq. ft of exhibition house. It’s going to additionally embrace a bookshop providing Hauser…