The South Korean collector and founder of New York's Shin Gallery on the flea markets, fashion and food hotspots of his native Seoul. Hong Gyu Shin at his New York apartment 1. My ideal dinner…

Picasso, Miro, Dali, Richter, Braque: supreme Bordeaux Chateau Mouton-Rothschild has had them all, and many more, create its wine label over the decades. Candice Tucker speaks to Julien de…

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, Italy's most celebrated living artist, tells Darius Sanai about surrealism, failing at school,…

Princess Alia Al-Senussi is a key figure in the development of cultural relationships between the West and the Global South, and in the growth of the art scene in Saudi Arabia. In a conversation…

Polaroids of artworks at home by Hafsa Alkhudairi Contemporary art lead for AlUla, Hafsa Alkhudairi, delves into the lives of the pieces in her family's collections. Writing from the artworks'…

Edoardo Monti In the seventh part of our Italy art focus series, curated by Umberta Beretta, LUX speaks to Edoardo Monti, who at 26 established an artist residency at his family's 13th-century…

La Ferita (The Wound), 2021, by JR at Palazzo Strozzi In the sixth part of our Italy art focus series, curated by Umberta Beretta, LUX speaks to Arturo Galansino, director of the public-private…

Beatrice Trussardi, President of the Fondazione Nicola Trussardi and founder of the Fondazione Beatrice Trussardi In the fifth part of our Italy art focus series, curated by Umberta Beretta, LUX…

Gemma De Angelis Testa A desire to connect artists and art lovers led Gemma De Angelis Testa to establish ACACIA in Milan in 2003 and to instigate the ACACIA award. Here, she speaks to LUX about…

Giovanna Forlanelli Rovati in the Sala Ontani. Photo by Giovanni de Sandre via Fondazione Luigi Rovati LUX speaks to Giovanna Forlanelli Rovati At the Fondazione Luigi Rovati in Milan, where she is…

Works by Aiko Tezuka on display at Asia Now Paris in the Majhi International Art Residency booth The Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation (DBF) continues its mission to bridge the art communities from the…

Mera and Don Rubell in front of When You See Me Again It Won’t Be Me (from the “Broadwaybrätsch/ Corporate Abstraction” series), 2010, by Kerstin Brätsch Mera Rubell and her husband Don…

Kate MccGwire is a British artist whose childhood on the Norfolk Broads inspired her to create art around landscapes and wildlife. Often collaborating with fashion brands, MccGwire recently produced…

Stacey Gillian Abe, Whispers Of Sorghum, 2023 The renowned British curator behind the hit art show 'In the Black Fantastic', Ekow Eshun, speaks to Candice Tucker about his curatorial process and…

Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo In the first part of our Italy art focus series, curated by Umberta Beretta, LUX speaks to Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo who founded her fondazione in Turin in…

Italian art collector and philanthropist Umberta Beretta Italy’s contemporary art scene is blooming. After decades of being perceived as a museum of the past, the home of the Renaissance is…

Aurelie Cauchy and Leslie Ramos, founders of The Twentieth © Juan Cuartas Rueda Leslie Ramos and Aurelie Cauchy are co-founders of The Twentieth, a pioneering art advisory that focuses on…

Sophie Neuendorf, Vice President of Artnet and Senior Contributing Editor at LUX Sophie Neuendorf, Vice President of Artnet and LUX Senior Contributing Editor, turns her insider’s eye to emerging…

Millie Jason Foster, co-founder of Gillian Jason Gallery Whilst art has often been perceived as a feminine subject, particularly in schools, men are disproportionately more successful than women in…

Founders of Shrine Empire Shefali Somani (left) and Anahita Taneja (right) Anahita Taneja & Shefali Somani founded Shrine Empire in 2008 with a mission to support South Asian artists. Here the…

The exterior of Albion Jeune gallery with installations from I Want to Believe by Esben Weile Kjær Lucca Hue-Williams has opened Fitzrovia's newest gallery, Albion Jeune. Here, LUX speaks to the…

Durjoy Rahman, founder of the Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation A philanthropic foundation from Bangladesh is creating powerful ties between art and culture in East and West, with a nexus in Italy. Greg…

The Hepworth Wakefield Museum which will acquire the work of the winner of the second edition of the Spirit Now London Acquisition Prize, supporting young female artists Now in its second year, the…

Aliya and Farouk Khan Over the last 25 years Aliya and Farouk Khan have been carefully curating a collection of art works by prominent first generation Malaysian contemporary artists. Known as The…

Yinka Shonibare at the Guest Artists Space Foundation, Lagos, one of two artist residencies he has established in Nigeria The Birtish-Nigerian artist and philanthropist is the official artist of,…

Sundaram Tagore. Photo by Paul Terrie. Photo courtesy of Sundaram Tagore Gallery Art and culture is part of gallerist Sundaram Tagore's DNA, coming from one of India's leading creative families.…

Dilara Begum Jolly, Parables of the Womb. Image courtesy of the Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation Barrister A B M Hamidul Mishbah, who specialises in Intellectual Property (Copyright & Visual Art)…

Hilary Weston, at home in Windsor As co-founder of Windsor, a private residential community along Florida’s Treasure Coast, Hilary Weston is also Creative Director of The Gallery at Windsor. The…

"Roth Bar” Hauser & Wirth St Moritz, 2022-2023, by Björn, Oddur and Einar Roth As Vice President of Artnet, LUX Contributing Editor Sophie Neuendorf has a unique view of upcoming events in…

Patrick Sun at the exhibition “Myth Makers – Spectrosynthesis III”, JC Contemporary, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong One of Asia's bravest, most significant and most understated art philanthropists,…

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled (Devil), 1982. Private Collection; © 2023 Phillips Auctioneers LLC, all rights reserved; © Estate of Jean-MichelBasquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York Eight…

Left to right: Philanthropist Durjoy Rahman with collector Maria Sukkar and LUX Editor in Chief, Darius Sanai In the fourth of our series of online dialogues, Maria Sukkar, one of the most…

Sana Rezwan at Barwara Kothi, Jaipur Sana Rezwan is a thoroughly modern entrepreneur and philanthropist, living and working in London, then New York, before recently moving back to her native…

Dia Anitska, Daniela de Jesus Cosio, Sassan Behnam-Bakhtiar, Ali Jassim, Jak Bueno and guest A glamorous art-fashion crowd gathered in Berkeley Square, London, for a preview of Sassan…

Iris Study No.7 18 x 26cm Oil on Canvas Artist, W.K. Lyhne speaks to Maryam Eisler about her latest body of work, Stabat Mater, where she explores  the treatment of the female body throughout…

Bernadine Bröcker Wieder is the CEO of Arcual, a blockchain software created by an art focused ecosystem for the art world. Here Wieder speaks to LUX's Leader and Philanthropist Editor, Samantha…

Vik Muniz, Woman of Algiers, after Pablo Picasso (Surfaces), 2022 Brazilian artist and photographer Vik Muniz's most recent series Surfaces is currently on display in the FOTOCUBISMO exhibition at…

Dinner at the ceremony for the Richard Mille Art Prize, against the spectacular backdrop ofLouvre Abu Dhabi One of the art world’s most prestigious awards, the Richard Mille Art Prize in…

The Four Seasons, 2021, by Idris Khan, in the lobby of the Deutsche Bank Center, New York With Preview Day of Frieze New York underway, Will Fenstermaker discovers a stunning and carefully curated…

Left to right: Darius Sanai, Audrey bazin, Maria Sukkar, Frédéric Rouzaud, Rita Kamale, Nadja Swarovski and Brandei Estes A crowd of the leading movers and shakers from the worlds of art and…

Red Dahlias by Cig Harvey Graham Nash, of legendary music trio Crosby Stills and Nash, is a major collector of modern photography. As this year’s Photo London fair gets underway, we speak with…

Sassan Behnam-Bakhtiar, Energy Within, 2023 The French-Iranian artist Sassan Behnam-Bakhtiar has a solo show opening in Phillips on Berkeley Square. His compelling paintings examine themes of loss,…

The 2023 edition of Art Dubai will feature 24 Dubai-based galleries, the largest number the fair has ever had, reflecting the continued growth of Dubai’s artistic ecosystem and its increasing…

Il Etait Une Fois, Le Nord-Pinus by Maryam Eisler Maryam Eisler - the photographer behind many of LUX’s artist covers, including our most recent KAWS cover- continues her fascination with the…

For the winter 2023 issue of LUX, rising star photographer Angie Kremer captured the stars of an emerging Parisian creative scene. Her evocative images and her interviews with these individuals…

You can find his works on the back of mass-market cereal packets, in leading museums and on sneakers. Some change hands for millions, and others are made in their millions. More than any other…

Togetherness, 2022, by Leilah Babirye, at the PAF’s ‘Black Atlantic’ exhibition, 2022 As the art world gets moving for Asia's first major fair of 2023, the new Art SG in Singapore, we asked…

A record-breaking sale at a German auction house is reverberating around the European art market, says Sophie Neuendorf Sophie Neuendorf The 1943 striking self-portrait was hammered down for…

Axion, 2022 by Christopher Bauder. The Royal Commission for Riyadh City is transforming the capital into a local and international art hub Nouf Almoneef of Noor Riyadh speaks to LUX about creating…

Durjoy Rahman with Bose Krishnamachari, president of Kochi-Muziris Biennale, and Ralph Rugoff, director of the Hayward Gallery, at the launch for the DBF-KMB Award and Lecture Series, Venice, April…

Light Horizon by artist Sabine Marcelis in Wadi Namar, part of the Noor Riyadh Festival 2022 Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, has not been a city you would associate with art. Yet it has just…

Liza Essers and Durjoy Rahman in discussion at Goodman Gallery, Mayfair, London In the first of our series of online dialogues, Liza Essers of Goodman Gallery and South South speaks with…

One of the hottest tickets in Rome this month was 'The Art of Conversation' arranged by Deutsche Bank and Frieze with renowned artist, Karin Kneffel The event was hosted amid the baroque opulence…

Alan Lo The restaurateur, collector and leading figure in the Hong Kong art scene on who’s hot, what’s not, and why Singapore may soon be the next Asian art hotspot LUX: You have been involved…

Studio detail with glitter tondo. Photo by Maryam Eisler LUX's Chief Contributing Editor, Maryam Eisler, visits Peter Dayton to photograph and interview the East Hampton-based artist at his studio.…

Whose Sari Now, 2007, by Charles Pachter On the 75th anniversary of the end of British rule in India, LUX’s Maya Asha McDonald speaks to Durjoy Rahman, Bangladeshi philanthropist, art collector…

Missing Home, Adolf Tega in collaboration with Qaqambile Bead Studio Whilst you most likely have heard 1-54 is celebrating its 10th year in London at its flagship event at Somerset House, LUX casts…

Barrha Bar by Yann Le Coadic. Image courtesy of Pouenat After two years online, PAD returns to its home in Mayfair, and with it brings its eternal reverence to craft and tradition, as well as new…

Portrait of artist Shezad Dawood at the sea’s edge in East Sussex Shezad Dawood is seven years into 'Leviathan', a mammoth multidisciplinary project centred around our changing oceans. Maisie…

Sassan Behnam-Bakhtiar and Ali Jassim One is an artist and the other a financier, but in coming together to create a charitable foundation, Sassan Behnam-Bakhtiar and patron, Ali Jassim have also…

The Picture, 2002, by Shishir Bhattacharjee. This painting was sent to the exhibition by the Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation following collection from the artist For one of the first times in history,…

Sassan Behnam-Bakhtiar LUX is supporting the current private sale at Sotheby's Monaco by Iranian-French artist Sassan Behnam-Bakhtiar. His latest collection of works, Journey Within, involves…

The artist doing a yoga pose in front of one his own recent paintings © Maryam Eisler Joel Mesler is one of the hottest names on the East Coast art scene right now. LUX's Chief Contributing…

The artist Sassan Behnam-Bakhtiar, holding a paint-scraping tool, which he uses for his special peinture raclée technique A new body of work by the French-Iranian artist generates energy on…

Milton Avery, Two Figures on Beach, 1950 In our ongoing online monthly series, LUX’s editors, contributors, and friends pick their must-see exhibitions from around the globe Péjú Oshin,…

Köken Ergun and Tashi Lama, Nepali Power, 2022 LUX sends Contributing Editor, Samantha Welsh, to report on the opening ceremony of Garden of Ten Seasons at Savvy Contemporary in Berlin At the 59th…

Sassan Behnam-Bakhtiar painting the mural, The Journey Iranian-French artist Sassan Behnam-Bakhtiar has launched his latest body of work, The Journey, created in collaboration with philanthropist,…

An NFT from Tezos They’re being shown at Basel, included in Venice: let’s see what the data tells us about NFTs and their long-term potential. Our contributing editor and columnist Sophie…

Shanyan Koder is the founder of HUA gallery and Shanyan Koder Fine Art From a very young age, art has been a fundamental part of Shanyan Koder's life. Here, the founder of Shanyan Koder Fine Art…

María Berrío, 'Anemochory', 2019 New York City is a buzzing city known for its love and support of art and culture. The city is now making up for lost time since the pandemic and celebrating life…

Black-Figure Chalcidising Eye-Cup, Greek, Attic, circa 520 BC Pottery Diameter: 29.2 cm As the second edition of Eye of the Collector opens its doors tomorrow at London's Two Temple Place, the…

Nazy Vassegh photographed in the Grand Hall at Two Temple Place. Photo by Alex Board This May sees the second edition of Eye of the Collector kicking off the summer art season in London. Conceived…

VOLTA Art Fair. New York City. Photo: David Willems Kamiar Maleki entered the art world at a young age and quickly became a leading curator and collector. Now Director of Volta Art Fairs, he speaks…

Anita Choudhrie, Founder of Path to Success and Stellar International Art Foundation Anita Choudhrie is at the forefront of building opportunities for women in both the worlds of art and sports.…

X Museum. Image courtesy X Museum and Weiqi Jin Michael Xufu Huang is the co-founder of X Museum, a platform for cultivating talents and supporting young and mid-career artists within a global…