The Whitechapel Gallery has announced that Tracey Emin (b. 1963, UK) will be the ninth artist to receive the prestigious annual Art Icon award. On Monday 22 March 2022. The award will be presented at a celebration in the gallery. Emin’s work is known for its portrayal of personal experience and heightened states of emotion. […]
The short answer is I’ve been a fanatical collector of things since my childhood. From the age of seven or eight I started collecting inexpensive 18th- and 19th-century English coins and World War I campaign medals. I reconnected with it in my mid-twenties at a point in my life when I started to earn quite a lot of money trading commodities in the markets. I moved to Paris for 18 months when I was 25 and art educated myself in the museums there. During that period, I started collecting paintings, which I felt I liked at the time. Then I got back into collecting Roman coins, hand-painted books and antiquities, which led to the opening of the
Room for art: residencies at Hotel Torre Guelfa
Hotel Torre Guelfa decided to make its rooms available to young local artists. Shuttered for several seasons due to the ongoing health emergency, the third floor of Palazzo Acciaiuoli is now an arts residency for a handful of Florentine creatives struggling to work in these months of unending confinement.
In the gallery, at home, with Christian and Florence Levett (Helen Farrell + Linda Falcone)
Former investment manager, now full-time art collector Christian Levett and his wife Florence recently moved to the city. Their central Florence home is an inspiring gallery in its own right, hung with abstraction art by women artists, alongside classical busts and lovingly framed family photos.