Frances Elkins was one of the early 20th century’s most prominent interior designers. And San Francisco’s James D. Zellerbach residence, commissioned in the late 1930s, is one of Elkins’s most memorable projects. After nearly a century of upkeep, the contents of four of the Beaux Arts home’s rooms will be up for auction at Christie’s New York on June 12, per the San Francisco Chronicle.
Wallpaper has assembled a helpful list of the booths and events that visitors should look out for at Frieze New York 2025, which runs from May 7 through 11 at The Shed. Among the must-sees: Kishio Suga’s installation Sliced Stones, at the booth of Mendes Wood DM, and sculptures by Tuan Andrew Nguyen, at James Cohan.
In what is certainly the worst nightmare of parents bringing their kids along on a cultural excursion, last week a curious child scratched Mark Rothko’s Grey, Orange on Maroon, No. 8, at the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The institution expects that the damage can be repaired, according to reporting by CNN.
New Yorker employee turned museum guard Patrick Bringley’s memoir of his decade working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art quickly became a New York Times bestseller when it was released last fall. Bringley is now presenting All the Beauty in the World as a one-man show — at the DR2 Theatre in New York City through May 25 — telling audiences how his work at the Met helped him heal from the loss of his brother.
