The Stellar Club
An insider the next generation of collectors and culturally curious. I write about art, collectable design, city guides - and everything that didn't make it to the press release.
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What I’m looking forward to this fall (opens the original)
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I love September. It might not be January — the official start of the new year — but “back-to-school energy” always feels, to me, like the truer fresh start: a run of exciting months ahead, with none of the flatness of February or March. The weather helps, too. September hands us that fleeting, transitional moment when it’s still fine to go bare-legged but sensible to throw a light knit or a blazer over the top. The days are still decently long, and we don’t have to mourn the turning of the seas
Why some art still sells and other doesn’t (opens the original)
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The market is grim — you don’t need me for that. The piece nobody’s writing is the other one: what’s still flying off the wall, and why. A three-part formula, in the order that matters.I’ll spare you the obituary. You’ve read it every week for two years now: the closures, the redundancies, the quiet lawyers’ letters, the fairs shrinking their floor plans while insisting business has never been more buoyant. I have nothing to add to that genre except my own modest entry in the misery index. Artis
The artist who painted the back of the canvas: Everything you didn't know about Frankenthaler (opens the original)
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You know the sentence. Every survey of postwar American art contains it, almost word for word: in 1952, Helen Frankenthaler poured thinned paint onto raw canvas, invented the soak-stain technique, and paved the way for Color Field painting. One sentence, sometimes a generous paragraph, usually followed immediately by the names of the men who drove down from Washington to see the painting and built entire careers on it.The Kunstmuseum Basel retrospective — over fifty works across six decades — th
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