On a beach in Mexico, Thomas Erber met a woman named Francesca. She was making perfumes and candles for Coqui Coqui perfumery, and he ended up buying several for himself. In Munich one Sunday afternoon, Erber passed by the shop of German shoe brand Half's. He loved the windows, but ... More

"I've painted since early 2000, then I made clothes and I, of course, take photographs, but this year I just wanted to paint," says Hanuk. The Korean-born man-about-town photographer has spent the better part of 2013 working up a suite of 30 abstract canvases, which he unveiled November ... More

It's been one hundred years since Parisian-based artist Constantin Brancusi unveiled his modern sculptures at the famous 1913 Armory Show in New York and still, his influence in the city and on American soil is still resonating within the art world. In celebration of this centennial, Paul Kasmin Gallery is ... More

At the moment, Sarah Morris is the busiest artist in New York. "I'm in the midst of putting together the 'Rio' show now, working on a large wall painting for a show in Germany, and I'm also working on two films, one commissioned by Bernard Arnault." Morris sighs ... More

"David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition" is just that—bigger. The intensely personal retrospective spanning fourteen years of work opens October 26 at San Francisco's de Young Museum and fills 18,000 square feet of gallery space with the artist's drawings, paintings, digital "Cubist movies" and the results of his experimentation ... More

Romy doesn't quite recognize herself in photos yet, but she will soon. The 15-month-old New Yorker has a Polaroid from every day of the first six months of her life—each one scanned and saved onto two external hard drives. She's in portraits, paintings and illustrations created by friends of her ... More

Painter and illustrator Joe McKendry, whose work has appeared in Esquire, Vanity Fair and countless others, may have authored last year's New York City Book Award winner (and New York Times Best Illustrated book) One Times Square (Times Square, 1955 illustration pictured right), but he actually ... More

"Diana Vreeland was really a larger-than-life character," says expert graphologist Annette Poizner of the late fashion editor. "She was intuitive and analytical, creative and colorful, psychologically minded, extremely intelligent, animated, dramatic, flexible, good physical coordination, fast thinking and fast moving." Though Poizner never actually met the fashion visionary, she's ... More

It seems to be a case of art imitating art. Just three years ago filmmaker Ang Lee commissioned Alexis Rockman to conceptualize the visuals for the Academy Award-winning Life of Pi, and now the resulting work is hanging in one of the artist's two shows, currently drawing in-the-know crowds in ... More

San Francisco was practically salivating over the "Italian ice" being served up September 18 for the opening of The Art of Bulgari: La Dolce Vita & Beyond, 1950 – 1990, at the de Young Museum. The well-heeled (and much-bejeweled) turned out to fête the 128-year-old jewelry house with ... More