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Welcome to another exciting issue of the newsletter - a day later than usual but at least it made it to your inbox. Lots of interesting art news this week as well as some great new architecture and interior projects. Take a look around and you’re bound to find something you like. Let’s get to it.
A long-unseen Basquiat painting appears in the new Tiffany campaign
How pop art king Andy Warhol changed culture forever
Why art collectors are obsessed with Andy Warhol
Queens County Fair features Warhol's cow as design for this year’s corn maze
Over sixty venues open for an art-filled weekend in upstate New York
Twenty-four elevated cabins create this modernist retreat in the Catskills
Step inside Airbnb’s most wish-listed architectural stays
A tiny mushroom-shaped dome in the California redwoods is the world’s most booked Airbnb
This modern prefab cabin in the Ecuadorian Andes explores how we live and work
This new prefab office pod lets you work from practically anywhere
This ‘plug n play’ ADU is a self-sufficient tiny home that’s delivered fully assembled and ready to go
A rare, flying saucer–shaped Futuro home touches down in England
Lasdun brutalist building upgraded for University of London
Architects create home office in brutalist London tower
The refurbishment and adaptive reuse of brutalist architecture
Concrete construction offsets around one half of emissions caused by cement industry
The tyranny of concrete and its costly carbon footprint
A concrete seafront home on Oaxacan beach follows the rising and setting of the sun
A minimal housing space for kite-surfers is embedded into the water and sand in Brazil
A Brazilian home with an indoor/outdoor living style and another one in Texas
A sloping home in the bush of Brisbane
An intimate and essential retreat in the Nordic landscape
Styling tricks to learn from a serene Scandinavian apartment
Swedish interior designer shares insight into her holistic approach to designing interiors and furniture
A New York gallerist’s East Village apartment
This renovated loft in a former Manhattan hotel is the perfect mix of polished and playful
This penthouse office in Barcelona is a place of human connection, collaboration and inspiration
An elongated one-story volume is built in the countryside in the Czech Republic
A fifteen foot wide 160-year-old neo-Gothic building in Germany is reinvented as a hotel
The home Jean Prouvé designed for his daughter in the French countryside is now up for sale
Inside Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater house
Mies van der Rohe’s Neue Nationalgalerie reopens with an Alexander Calder exhibition
Latest BMW art car is Alexander Calder's unbuilt artist's proof
San Diego Museum which highlights folk art and design reopens after three-year $55M renovation
7 exceptional museums opening this fall
Hilma af Klint show in Australia closes after only fourteen days :’(
Unauthorized Banksy show in Seoul embroiled in replica controversy
Manhattan dealer busted for selling hundreds of fake ‘cookie-cutter’ antiquities
Italian man suspected of orchestrating van Gogh heist arrested in Dubai
Is a Sopranos-like family behind the billion-dollar Dresden jewel heist?
Scammers and hackers see new frontier in NFT art
An 'all female' NFT project was exposed as being founded by three Russian men
Artist Tom Sachs creates rocket NFTs
12-year-old earns $400K by selling NFTs
Teenager buys $7,000 worth of Leica camera gear for just $15 at a garage sale without realizing
Someone bought a Leica for $24K in 2019 and just sold it for $480K
Vancouver-based architectural photographer talks about working with the best and chasing the light
Japanese photographer has been documenting New Yorkers for the last forty years
Dash Snow documentary fails to contend with the artist’s carefully constructed persona
Is the party over for New York’s outlaw houseboats?
Parisian artist sails floating rock off the coast of Marseille
That’ll bring this week’s newsletter to a close. Seriously, thank you all for reading this far. I truly appreciate you…especially when you share the newsletter with a friend. And as always, send links and feedback over to murphy@therealmurphy.com. I welcome your messages.
Thomas