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...