Janet Mercel

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West Coast Editor at A Hotel Life

Editor In Chief at DVEIGHT Magazine

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Articles

Jerry Gogosian—the Real-Life Gossip Girl of the Art World Tells All! | Avenue Magazine

Mar 2, 2025 | avenuemagazine.com | Janet Mercel

Hilde Lynn Helphenstein’s once-anonymous viral Instagram account is a digital cultural sensation that has become an art world obsession. JANET MERCEL logs into the razor sharp “Gogosian” galaxy. I’m not famous, but I’m oddly famous,” says Hilde Lynn Helphenstein, a.k.a. Jerry Gogosian, the enfant terrible of art world commentary. “There’s an old hashtag from a few years ago, #jerryinthewild. People figured out who I was and were paparazzi-ing me.
NOTORIOUS: The (Sex) Life and Death of Salvador Dalí

Feb 11, 2025 | avenuemagazine.com | Janet Mercel

The Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dalí – forever a provocateur – was as wild, glamorous, and grotesque as his paintings finds JANET MERCEL.
A Temazcal Sweat Lodge in Tulum Taught Me to Listen to My Body

Jan 28, 2025 | msn.com | Janet Mercel

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A Temazcal Sweat Lodge in Tulum Taught Me to Listen to My Body

Jan 28, 2025 | cntraveler.com | Janet Mercel

All products featured on Condé Nast Traveler are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. In the days before I left for Nômade Tulum, I was so sick with flu-like nerves that I almost didn’t board the plane.
Meet Artist Emma Kathleen Hepburn Ferrer

Jan 14, 2025 | avenuemagazine.com | Janet Mercel |Peter Davis

BY JANET MERCELFor a polyglot artist with a distinctly international life, it may come as a surprise how American Emma Kathleen Hepburn Ferrer seems. But then, the Swiss-born painter left her birth country at just 3 or 4-years old and spent several formative years in Los Angeles before eventually moving to Florence with her father at 11 or 12.
Art on the Menu | Avenue Magazine

Dec 13, 2024 | avenuemagazine.com | Janet Mercel

From LA to NY, JANET MERCEL discovers new restaurants that serve a feast for the sensesState of the art market giving you whiplash? It might be time to escape to the nearest dining hotspot for your culture fix. A spate of new restaurants from coast to coast make the visuals just as much a priority as the food, and want you to experience a creative reckoning—or at least an intimate viewing experience—with a masterwork of contemporary and blue-chip artists.
THREE DAYS IN SAN JUAN

Nov 14, 2024 | ahotellife.com | Janet Mercel

ARTS & CULTURE | EAT & DRINK | BOAT & BEACH | SEE & DO | STAY By Janet Mercel on 11.14.24A U.S. territory since 1898, Puerto Rico retains such old-world spirit that it’s not difficult to imagine you’re in a land far away.
A True Hamptons Dream House

Aug 19, 2024 | avenuemagazine.com | Janet Mercel

Los Angeles-based gallery Stroll Garden takes over the former Bouvier house and studio of Adolph Gottleib by JANET MERCEL Sculptures by Maddy InezFor the rest of the summer, a storied East Hampton home will live as a group show from Stroll Garden, the Los Angeles gallery. “Dream House”, the Los Angeles gallery’s second annual summer exhibition, invokes art imitating life, with nearly forty ceramic works from artists such as Ryan Flores, Analuisa Corrigan, and Lindsey Lou Howard.
Balmain Or Bust | Avenue Magazine

Jul 20, 2024 | avenuemagazine.com | Janet Mercel

A Summer Boutique with Decades Pops Up on Shelter Island BY JANET MERCELIs a lobster roll the perfect accessory to your Balmain fit this summer? Shelter Island certainly thinks so. The nearly 80-year-old fashion brand has launched a month-long showcase at The Pridwin Hotel & Cottages, one of the most picturesque properties around. A major overhaul in 2022 upped the ante at the historic beach resort, now attracting guests as dazzling as the unrivaled waterfront views of the Sound.
These designers are thinking in generations, not projects

Jun 26, 2024 | businessofhome.com | Janet Mercel

In certain households, the family decorator is a trusted stalwart across decades and generations. The arrangement is mutually beneficial: Designers can grow their business with ease while clients get the benefit of continuity and a deep relationship. But what do those dynamics look like up close, when designers are working with kids, parents and grandparents, all with varying budgets, tastes and influences? “Surprisingly, no drama,” says Alessandra Branca.