Art & Anecdotes

Creator: Neilson Barnard/MG25 | Credit: Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue Copyright: 2025 Getty Images On a crisp November morning inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Anna Wintour stepped onto the dais with the ease of a woman who has shaped fashion for four decades — and is nowhere near finished. Months after transitioning out of her role as Vogue ’s editor-in-chief (yet still very much the mastermind behind the Met Gala), Wintour joined longtime curator Andrew Bolton

Leonard A Lauder.Photo : The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. When the cosmetics titan and art collector Leonard A. Lauder passed away this summer, he left behind more than a legacy in lipstick and luxury. He left one of the most extraordinary private art collections of the 20th century — a trove now headed to auction, and one that’s set to become a defining moment for the global art world. This November, Sotheby’s will unveil  The Leonard A. Lauder Collection  at its new Madison

image credit; Courtesy of Art Basel Art Basel Paris turned the City of Light into an open-air gallery — and left the rest of us plotting next year’s trip. Even if you weren’t strolling through the glass-domed halls of the Grand Palais this weekend, trust us — Art Basel Paris 2025 was the place to be. From October 24 to 26, the world’s most glamorous art fair took over the French capital, bringing together more than 200 galleries from over 40 countries and transforming Paris i

Where Heritage Meets Design Image courtesy of Allora Charleston A century ago, the Navy Yard was a world of iron and industry — shipbuilders, rivets, and the hum of the Cooper River. Today, that same stretch of shoreline is being reimagined as Charleston’s most exciting new design destination. Opening this fall, the Charleston Design District will anchor the 85-acre redevelopment, transforming the storied Storehouses Eight and Nine into a curated collective of showrooms, stud

When a $650,000 masterpiece pulls a disappearing act between Madrid and Granada—because apparently even Picasso couldn’t resist a little mystery. Pablo Picasso once said, “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” Ironically, one of his own “truths” has just vanished into thin air. A small but mighty Picasso painting — Still Life with Guitar, created in 1919 — has mysteriously disappeared somewhere between Madrid and Granada, Spain, sending the art world into a ta

It’s not often that a star redefines herself in the middle of her life. Reinvention in Hollywood tends to mean disappearing, resurfacing, or playing a self-parody. But Pamela Anderson — forever etched in cultural memory as the blonde bombshell who sprinted across our television screens in slow motion — is scripting something different. At fifty-seven, she has embarked on what can only be described as a renaissance: raw, real, and radiant in ways that feel both unexpected and

When travelers step off the plane at Hilton Head Island Airport, they’re now greeted by a breathtaking work of art that captures the soul of the Lowcountry. Charleston-based mixed-media artist Christy Kinard has unveiled Focused Precision , a 16-foot-by-28-foot installation that stretches across a glass wall inside the airport’s new terminal — a piece that feels both personal and profoundly Southern. Selected from more than 229 submissions by over 100 artists, Kinard’s design

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Charleston has never been shy about showing off its charm — pastel façades, moss-draped oaks, oysters on the half shell — but each...

Inside House of Guinness and the Legacy Behind the Pint Louis Partridge Photo: Netflix When our latest Netflix binge arrived with the...

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In the vibrant world of contemporary art, Yvonne Claveloux stands as a dynamic force, crafting works that are as bold and honest as they...

At just 13 years old, Andres Valencia is being hailed as a modern-day Picasso, captivating the global art world with his extraordinary...

Attention Grabbing, Sculpted and Paid For - These Women Have An Agenda You won’t find " Pony Mom " in the dictionary or even on Google....

Adolphe Giraudon's "Sargent in his Paris Studio" When John Singer Sargent unveiled Madame X at the 1884 Paris Salon, the reaction was...