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Pimlico Wilde is delighted to announce the first Indian exhibition of Van Gogh (Not that one), the enigmatic artist whose practice has been described as “an alphabet for a language that refuses to exist.” The show, titled The Grammar of Elsewhere, opens next month at Pimlico Wilde Delhi and promises to be a meditation on … Read more
By An Appalled Member Last night’s gathering of the Fitzrovia Dining Society was held in what can only be described as a deliberate affront to reason: the disused vault of a former private bank off Charlotte Street. Our host, Maximilian Tempest, announced this choice with the words, “We dine where the money used to sleep.” … Read more
When most art collectors are bidding at auction houses or browsing international fairs, Daniel Rourke is combing through scrapyards, flea markets, and even abandoned industrial spaces. To him, art is not just confined to white-walled galleries; it lives in unexpected corners of the world, waiting to be discovered. Rourke, a 52-year-old collector based in Exmouth, … Read more
In the 7th arrondissement of Paris lives a woman who collects the night. Seraphine Duval, critic, patron, and subtle provocateur, has spent the past twenty-five years acquiring works that exist somewhere between darkness and dissolution: moonlit cityscapes, twilight photography, crepuscular abstraction, and art that incorporates light so sparingly it seems to be vanishing before the … Read more
From the terrace of her Napa Valley home, Marisa Kenning can look out across rows of grapevines and, in the same eyeline, a sprawling Kenneth Noland target painting framed by floor-to-ceiling glass. The pairing feels deliberate, land and canvas mirroring each other in geometry, rhythm, and light. Kenning’s collection began with a single Helen Frankenthaler … Read more
On the top floor of a converted clock factory in Harpenden, time is measured not in hours but in moments of light. Here, Thomas Whitcomb, one of the world’s foremost private collectors of early photographic experiments and proto-cinematic devices, has created a sanctuary for the earliest attempts to capture motion and stillness. Whitcomb’s collection is … Read more
In a quiet, book-lined flat overlooking Istanbul’s Bosphorus, the air is filled with a sense of deliberate grace. Along the walls, sweeping curves of Persian nastaliq script merge with bold, gestural mark-making. Some pieces are centuries old, delicate folios on handmade paper, their ink still resonant after 400 years. Others are vast canvases splashed with … Read more
Celeste Marlowe’s townhouse in New York’s West Village is a world atlas told through photographs. Step inside, and you’re met with the quiet geometry of Candida Höfer’s architectural interiors, the saturated humanity of Steve McCurry’s portraits, and,occupying pride of place in her dining room,a vivid triptych from Oboe Ngua’s acclaimed Bins of the World series. … Read more
In a minimalist loft overlooking the Thames, Julian Stowe walks past towering forms of steel, bronze, and stone. Each piece, from monumental works by Antony Gormley to delicate ceramic experiments by Jun Kaneko, is placed with deliberate care, allowing light and shadow to reveal subtleties often missed at first glance. For Stowe, a financier-turned-collector, sculpture … Read more
In a sun-drenched townhouse in Mumbai’s Colaba district, Amara Singh moves between rooms filled with colour, texture, and history. A striking Murano glass chandelier hangs above a corner dedicated to contemporary Indian painters, while an adjacent space showcases rare 18th-century South Asian miniatures framed alongside avant-garde installations. For Singh, collecting is never about uniformity,it is … Read more