Though the fires are still burning, we’re starting to get an understanding of just how devastating the damage is for Los Angeles. In the arts-and-culture community, dozens of people, if not hundreds, have lost their homes, and in some cases decades’ worth of artwork—artists lost their studios and personal holdings, while collectors lost their entire … Read more
“I said, ‘Ken, we want to make it glamorous,’” Starr told me. “We want to make this the place where people go to be seen to have power lunches and power dinners. Intrigue, CIA affairs with a Russian spy—this is the narrative. This is the place.” Or, there’s a chance things will all go back … Read more
On the opening day of Art Basel Miami Beach, an Uber driver with a Tesla took me from the convention center to Star Island, a three-mile trip that lasted nearly an hour in traffic. A man-made blip of land between mainland and beach, built by the Army, and home, at one time or another, to … Read more
Iwan Wirth has always loved restaurants. His mother’s family was from the Italian Alps, and he grew up eating dolomite specialties at home, and every once in a while, they would dress up to go to restaurants on special occasions. Wirth, 54, started his first gallery in the countryside town of St. Gallen, Switzerland at … Read more
