Author: Juddy Miller

Bill Byers is an artist living and working in New York City, whose practice is deeply rooted in a love for the natural world. Despite his urban base, Byers frequently travels to wilderness areas, drawing inspiration from landscapes both remote and fragile. Over the years, his work has spanned painting, sculpture, and photography, creating a diverse body of art that reflects both the beauty and vulnerability of the environment. Byers’ art is not just an aesthetic pursuit; it is a modern expression of landscapes under threat, a meditation on the intersection of human life and the natural world. His works…

The Luminous Community Center is an ambitious and socially engaged public art vision by Los Angeles artist Nikolas Soren Goodich. Envisioned as an open-air architectural glass pavilion and designed to travel from city to city, the project seeks to redefine the purpose of public space in the 21st century. More than an artwork, it is a temporary community center built from luminous glass, inviting people to gather, reflect, and imagine new possibilities for unity, healing, and social transformation. Inspired by the idea that contemporary society lacks monuments celebrating love, solidarity, and community, the Luminous Community Center proposes a new kind…

Paula Martínez is part of a generation of Latin American artists who navigate identity not as a fixed element but as a fluid and ever-shifting terrain shaped by images, narratives, and cultural memory. Her practice draws from archives both formal and informal, including classical tapestries, cinema, internet imagery and mass media, to explore how identity is constructed and reconstructed across time. Through layering, recontextualizing and juxtaposing references, she creates works that exist between fact and fiction, past and present. Her 2025 drawing Kureopatora Visits Another Cleopatra illustrates how a single historical figure can proliferate endlessly through representation. Biography: A Practice…

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…