Posts by Sophie Clearwater
At 1 Hotel Austin, a High-Rise Stay With the Comforts of Home
1 Hotel Austin is the newest addition to the Texas capital’s hospitality landscape. Mikkel Vang If you, like me, haven’t visited Texas’ state capital for a number of years, you’d be forgiven for no longer recognizing some of the city’s most famed streets. A wealth of mixed-use developments has transformed formerly sleepy corners of Austin…
Read MoreThe Real Barrier to Collecting Art Isn’t the Cost But the Commitment
Art House, a subscription model for original art, lets people swap pieces in and out of their homes and then buy the ones they come to love. Courtesy Art House I am 38 years old, which means I remember when owning a car was a necessity to move around and getting into a stranger’s car…
Read More10 Must-See Exhibitions in Tokyo
CON_ Tokyo Through November 8, 2026 Shota Yamauchi‘s multidisciplinary practice navigates sculpture, moving image, performance and olfactory experience to investigate the relationship between the self and the world. In recent years, the artist has explored the body as a site of exchange, distilling sweat into an aromatic essence and imagining future scenarios in which human…
Read MorePauline Karpidas’s Surrealist Sensibility Returns to Sotheby’s in a Dedicated Jewelry Sale
Just over a year after Pauline Karpidas: The London Collection became the most valuable single-owner sales series ever staged in London after realizing £101 million, Sotheby’s Pauline Karpidas: The Jewelry Collection sale will offer 70 pieces from the collector’s jewelry collection. Private Family Archive The Pauline Karpidas collection is among the most valuable private holdings…
Read MoreLuxury Asset Capital Fine Art Lead Chloe Kilburn on Borrowing against Collections
Chloe Kilburn evaluates an artwork’s resale prospects when deciding how much Luxury Asset Capital can lend against it. Courtesy of Luxury Asset Capital Chloe Kilburn, who leads fine art at Luxury Asset Capital and heads its New York office, helps collectors turn valuable artwork into collateral for loans without having to sell their collections. The…
Read MoreLondon Artist Maya Golyshkina Is a Model of Self-Promotion
Maya Golyshkina, Maya Plates, 2021. Courtesy the artist Imagine gazing a little too long at one of Claes Oldenburg’s larger-than-life soft sculptures, his plopping Floor Burger with pickle on top, which evokes its weight and nostalgia as it sits in your stomach, or his lazing Floor Cone that carries all the emotion of your inner…
Read MoreThe Essentials With Leslie Frank: The Orient Express, Vienna State Opera and an Excellent Napa Chardonnay
Leslie Frank spent 25 years as a broadcast journalist in Seattle and Los Angeles before a chance encounter at a bar in Napa set her on a completely different path. After meeting her now-husband, Rich Frank, during a weekend getaway to wine country, the couple lived between L.A. and Napa for several years. Rich, who…
Read MoreThe Best Art Galleries in Engadin Valley, Switzerland
The Stable. Andrea Furger, Pontresina Editor’s note: This article was originally published in February 2024. In the southeastern part of Switzerland, in the Swiss canton of Graubünden, lies the Engadin Valley. People are usually drawn to this picture-perfect area of the country by the unparalleled skiing, awesome events and five-star hospitality, along with the gourmet…
Read MoreThe 15 Standout Luxury Watches Setting the Tone for 2026
For all watchmaking’s mastery of the perpetual calendar, the industry’s most elaborate complication in 2026 remains the waitlist. Here’s an object engineered to outlast its first owner, which is then displayed on a website that may decline to even sell it to interested buyers. After a decade in which steel sports models behaved like small-cap…
Read MoreA Los Angeles Itinerary for Art Lovers
Walk around Echo Park After getting settled in Silver Lake, we met up with Holland Denvir, founder of Los Angeles Design Week/end, to check out the Eastside design scene. This was the third year of LADW, and “the goal is really to share with residents and visitors what’s here locally—artist studios, galleries you might not…
Read MoreKerry James Marshall’s “The Histories” Finds a Fitting Home in Paris
“The Histories” at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris is Kerry James Marshall’s first retrospective in France. Photo by Joel Saget / AFP via Getty Images There has been a visible uptick in Black American artists being shown in Paris. Mickalene Thomas’s “All About Love” was at the Grand Palais (December 2025-April 2026), and Henry…
Read MoreThe Bloody Palette of the Animal Kingdom Goes Far Beyond Red. These Creatures Have Blood That Runs a Chilling Blue, Bright Green or Milky White
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The hemoglobin in humans’ blood is not the standard for all critters—and one group of Antarctic fish are the only vertebrates to not have red blood cells at all Source link
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