Beginning February 12, the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum will present Beauty—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, a must-see contemporary design exhibition features projects from masters of their crafts. Beauty fills nearly two floors of the Manhattan museum with works from 63 designers and displays 250 works from all around the world.  The exhibition explores various ... More

To hear him tell it, Jeff Koons keeps the hours of an average businessman. “I’m here Monday through Friday, nine to five,” he says, shrugging, as if the operation he runs out of a former warehouse on Manhattan’s far west side were some ho-hum insurance office and not an extraordinary, ... More

Ski buffs and the snow-averse alike can easily appreciate the bold colors, inventive typography and whimsical graphics of European ski posters from the early-to-mid 20th century. At a time when the sport’s popularity was compounding at a breakneck rate, the continent’s first resorts and hotels wasted no time ... More

Want to jump the queue at the hottest exhibits before the tourists pile in? Dying to get a drawing lesson from a top artist like Natalie Frank inside her studio? Daydreaming about lunching with your favorite sculptor? Then you might want to call The Cultivist. Founded by ex-Sothebys staffers ... More

As you enter the Park Avenue apartment of Gary and Sarah Wolkowitz, it’s almost impossible to imagine that the couple once surrounded themselves with oversize pop art and color-field paintings by the likes of Andy Warhol and Kenneth Noland. Of course, that was back in the 1970s, in ... More

Soft-spoken, boyish and American-born, Nicholas Cullinan doesn’t seem like the most obvious candidate to direct London’s National Portrait Gallery, an august institution whose collection of 10,000 paintings of famous Britons stretches back to the 16th century. Despite this, Cullinan, who’s schooled in art both classic and cutting edge, intends to ... More

Towering green hedges flank an imposing wrought-iron gate, which opens to reveal an acre of verdant, manicured lawn surrounding a white Spanish stucco structure with a rolling red-tile roof. The scene could accurately be described as the very essence of Southern California architecture, so it’s fitting that nestled inside is ... More

My art collection is very much about my own personal taste. It’s very colorful, with a lot of Pop Art. It’s not conceptual at all, but more about fun and humor. I first met Keith Haring at Andy Warhol’s Factory. Andy had invited us for lunch, so we started talking and Keith told ... More