Welcome to the Fall issue. As art exhibitions and auctions heat up across the country, we’re keeping an eye on trends, artists, and sales. Like the incredible news from this past summer: The big three auction houses — Sotheby’s, Christie’s, and Phillips — beat total...
In Conversation: Caroline Douglas, Where the Magic Happens I would have to say, clay chose me. I took a pottery class in high school, and from day one I loved it; it is the medium that made me feel most alive. I started out on the...
Hunt Slonem’s New York City studio is an explosion of color, art, and objects, from antique furniture to top hats, harps, framed photographs, plants, and rugs. Though I can’t see his collection of 10 rescued exotic birds, their chatter periodically floats up through the breaks...
At an exhibition a few years before the end of his life, Denver-based artist Vance Kirkland was standing next to his painting Unknown Space Mysteries 9 Billion Years B.C. (1979), part of his Dot Paintings series, when a scientist walked up and stood beside him....
Patricia Benner, much-awarded landscape designer and founder of Benner Reibel Landscape Architects, began her professional life with an MBA. She worked in finance for several years before deciding it simply wasn’t for her. Then her mother, a landscape architect in New Jersey, created a plan...
Prime Angus Beef from Bootheel 7 Ranch Fourth-generation Bootheel 7 Ranch relies on family values, land stewardship, and a passion for livestock. The “ranch” half of the family works cattle in Lusk, Wyoming, while the “city” half runs business operations in Parker, Colorado. With a variety...
It’s a Friday night in Whitefish — Restaurant Week — and I’m dining at Herb & Omni with a table full of writers, musicians, and artists from across the state. We’ve tasted everything from grilled Korean short rib and foie gras pie to chickpea fritters...
I’ve been wrestling for some time with what makes a home Mid-Century vs. Modern vs. Ranch-Style, other than the timeline,” says Craig McMahon, principal at Craig McMahon Architects. “It was a very unique time where everything seemed to be changing culturally, including architecture. I can’t...
When you visualize the city of Los Angeles, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Gleaming skyscrapers, maybe. Gridlocked traffic on endless highways, perhaps, or sandy beaches and abundant sunshine. What you probably don’t think about is the Los Angeles River. But it’s there, all...
Adrienne Stein was under pressure. The atelier-trained painter had for years successfully put herself through every artistic rigor: studying and executing drawing for an entire year before approaching oil paint; copying works by Old Masters; studying the ages of art and exposing herself to great paintings...