Rule 26
Alright here it is. Better late than never right? It was a little hard to find a flow this week but there’s some good stuff in the newsletter nonetheless. Here we go.
The FBI has busted a Mexican politician for hawking fake Basquiat & Keith Haring artwork after catching him red-handed
Sections of wall bearing a Keith Haring mural removed from a three-story stairwell of a NYC youth home are now on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver
A Picasso painting sells for $150,000 after sitting forgotten in a Maine closet for fifty years
Greek construction worker who stole Picasso & Mondrian paintings explains the heist
Meet the art sleuth leading the Louvre's efforts to return stolen works
The best virtual museum tours in the world
Italian museum uses cameras to calculate how many visitors look at a painting and how much time they spend with it
The most shocking shifts of the post-pandemic art world
Artist Banksy ‘hijacked’ a painting of Mount Rainier to make a point and now it’s worth millions
While someone else is trying to cash in on their Banksy by making it an NFT without the artist’s knowledge
An interview with the artist who posed as a Hungarian billionaire to gain access to and photograph NYC’s most expensive apartments
Fifty photographers for your next interior shoot
Inside LA’s ultimate mid-century modern home
A look inside the famed Flintstone House
Capsules to be unplugged from Nakagin Capsule tower and regenerated as new place to stay
Another failed modernist planning icon bites the dust
Minimalism, expressionism, and experimentalism brought to life in perfect balance in this brutalist home in Egypt
A compact cement home with a sense of spaciousness in Athens and another that makes nice use of color
Art, architecture and nature collide in dramatic new concrete art pavilion in South Korea
This concrete and glass house opens onto the Sydney Harbor
New museum in Thailand ‘rises from the earth’ to defy the laws of gravity and celebrate agriculture
Everything you need to know about Brazilian modernism
Cross-laminated lumber used for additional floor of Munich housing block
Lumber prices are falling fast after COVID-19 disruption
The Japanese temple that is repeatedly torn down and rebuilt
A traditional home in the Japanese countryside
The renovation of a traditional Japanese house
A Japanese-inspired home in east London
A Victorian home in London with an understated aesthetic
An 1890s Brooklyn townhouse, reinvented for modern times
A sun-drenched Manhattan loft
The renovation of a penthouse in Spain
A surfer’s house in Cyprus that stands above the ground
One designer's refuge inspired by travel and another’s 1930s duplex
A minimal apartment in Sydney
Two art focussed neoclassical homes
You can now spend the night inside the Palace Versailles for $2,000 a night
A 1,000-year-old castle in Italy’s Umbrian hills is reopening as a hotel
The dynamic architectural drawings of the Italian futurists (seen above)
Getty Foundation awards $1.55M to museums exhibiting historic architecture drawings
Vintage images of American living rooms and dens from the 1950s
A Catskills lodge that was inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright
This tiny cabin in Maine comes with an entire island for $399K
A revamped retreat in Joshua Tree
Simple-to-build, streamlined cabins for remote living
The personal office pod, designed to provide an ideal remote work space
Dropbox is reimagining the office with a new concept
NYC gallery/boutique Nalata Nalata shares origin story on their revamped website
Legendary American furniture company Herman Miller is now MillerKnoll
A chair that’s a colorful tribute to Marcel Breuer
Furniture made from burnt cork
Animal heads made from woven grass
Lush tropical plants sprout from brightly colored murals
Immersive whale and waterfall digital art installation appears in New York's Times Square
Guerrilla wi-fi comes to NYC
How to delete yourself from social media
Does this conversation need to be a meeting? Does anything?
Okay I know that last link was a wildcard but I found it amusing. That’s all I have for you this week. Like it. Send it to a friend. See you next go-around. Thanks for reading and still being a subscriber.
Thomas