Angel Vergara Paints in Step With the Moving Image
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Represented by Axel Vervoordt Gallery, the Brussels-based artist moves between painting, performance and film to examine how images operate within contemporary life
An Egyptian Relief Preserves a Husband and Wife Across 3,500 Years
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Held by London dealer ArtAncient, the painted limestone fragment from Thebes turns a gesture of affection into one of the most intimate surviving images of Egypt’s 18th Dynasty
A Bronze Intervention in a Venetian Palazzo
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Brent Lee’s blackened bronze collection meets the aged grandeur of a canal-side palazzo
Galerie Chenel Places Roman Sculpture in a Contemporary Parisian Frame
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From its Quai Voltaire gallery opposite the Louvre, the family-run specialist has built an international reputation around archaeological objects, provenance and the enduring presence of antiquity
Looking Back at Intuition, Axel Vervoordt’s Defining Palazzo Fortuny Exhibition
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Curated with Daniela Ferretti for the 2017 Venice Biennale, the exhibition now reads as one of Vervoordt’s clearest statements on art, perception and the knowledge that arrives before language
At Castello di Montecalvello, Pierre Augustin Rose Finds a Softer Language of Stone and Velvet
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Inside an 11th-century castle once restored by Balthus, the French design house adapts its contemporary forms to the weight, texture and silence of the Italian countryside
75-Million-Year-Old Ammonite Preserves an Extraordinary Natural Iridescence
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Presented by London dealer ArtAncient, the fossilised marine shell from Alberta's Bearpaw Formation shifts from crimson and emerald to gold, violet and blue as light moves across its surface
Human Traces: Presence, Absence, and Material Memory
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Venetian artist Ida Barbarigo (1920-2018) transformed simple objects like chairs and tables to haunting symbols of presence and absence. In her abstract paintings , she used repetition and distortion and atmospheric space to evoke psychological tension rather than to depict literal furniture
Apologia Finds Beauty in the Memory of Japanese Objects
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From Chiba, the antique dealer presents weathered timber, vernacular furniture and sculptural objects through a philosophy that places age, memory and material presence above chronology
The Saint-Germain Gallery Built on Matisse, Maillol and a Century of Modern Art
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At Galerie Dina Vierny, a former coalman’s shop transformed by Auguste Perret still carries the story of its founder, from Maillol’s studio and wartime resistance to Russian avant-garde art and a new generation of Paris dealers
François Halard’s Life Among Houses, Studios and Singular Spaces
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Between his Greenwich Village apartment and an 18th-century hôtel particulier in the South of France, the photographer has spent more than three decades moving through the private worlds of artists, architects and collectors, from Cy Twombly and Louise Bourgeois to Casa Malaparte and La Maison de Verre
Jeffrey Dungan Searches for the Spirit of Home in The Soulful House
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The architect’s forthcoming Rizzoli monograph considers restraint, proportion and emotion through a collection of residences shaped as much by their inhabitants as the landscapes they occupy
Vincenzo De Cotiis Foundation through the lens of an Art Advisor
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An art advisor’s iPhone photos trace the Vincenzo De Cotiis Foundation within Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, Venice
Inside Tom Palmer’s Alabaster Series at KALPA
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The British artist and designer’s Vault Vessels pair rare alabaster with exacting geometry, revealing the stone’s soft translucency, varied inclusions, and quiet material presence
Je suis La Matière
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At the center of Je suis La Matière is a quiet tension between what can be seen and what remains just beyond perception. Reduced to a language of black and white, the works still hold what the artist describes as couleur invisible — an unseen color, or latent presence, that suggests something felt before it is fully recognized