Simon Chilvers

1 month ago | vogue.com | Simon Chilvers

From a distance, the ink wash paintings made by Swedish artist Gunnel Wåhlstrand could conceivably be photographs. Even as you step closer and let them pull you in—perhaps with a wondrous slash of dancing light on water, or an incredible hairdo—the idea of them being entirely handmade seems almost implausible.

2 months ago | vogue.com | Simon Chilvers

American artist Heidi Hahn really wants the visitors to “Not Your Woman,” her new show at Michael Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles, to think about the paint, even be seduced by it. “I still remember the first painting I did. I thought, This is it, this is the love of my life. I will never get over this,” she says. Hahn was 15, and had saved up the money to buy the paint from her weekend job working at a Los Angeles retirement home. Her picture was of an imagined woman.

Feb 26, 2025 | wallpaper.com | Simon Chilvers

It’s a grey Wednesday afternoon in January and Marni’s creative director Francesco Risso is standing in his office in Milan reading fragments of a poem. ‘Beauty is a white rabbit scampering across your yard,’ he orates.

Feb 13, 2025 | wallpaper.com | Simon Chilvers

‘I realised I was of great value, but sensed at the same time I was worth nothing at all, unless I was useful.’ These are the inner thoughts of a white matelassé leather handbag with gold hardware by Miu Miu, thoughtfully expressed in a new short film by British director Joanna Hogg that will premiere in London tonight (13 February 2025).

Jan 14, 2025 | wallpaper.com | Simon Chilvers

A few days before the opening of his third solo show ‘Under the Same Sky’ at London’s Studio Voltaire, Jake Grewal, a rising star of the British art scene is thoughtfully surveying his latest work as the final curatorial decisions are being made. Soft January light is tumbling into the room whilst a metal crane obscures a curved triptych of around six metres long depicting five naked figures moving across a landscape of yellow rocks.