Profile: Leslie Travers
Leslie Travers’ set design for Francesca da Rimini at Teatro alla Scala, winner of the 2019 Franco Abbiati Award for Best Set Design.
Award-winning stage designer Leslie Travers on instinct, cultural exchange, letting go of ideas, and why design is ultimately “emotional architecture.”
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Profile: Adrianne Rubenstein
Floating Fruit, 2026, oil on canvas, 60 × 72”
Painter Adrianne Rubenstein on humor, Canadian landscapes, and self-discovery.
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The Non-Tourist’s Guide to Florence, with Filippo Fargna and Kim Jansch
James Duffield Harding, Ponte Santa Trinità, Florence, before 1832. Watercolor. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public domain.
A guide to Florence through Casa G. Hotel Firenze, local artisans, old institutions, and the city’s quieter forms of belonging.Madina Tulakova 
Kim Jansch 
Filippo Montani Fargna
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Paul Signac, La Salute (Venise), 1906. Sold at Koller in Zurich on 26 June 2026 for about $4.4 million.
Koller’s Karl Green discusses how taste, timing, and desire shape the auction world.Madina Tulakova 
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Art Heist: Pushkin Editions Stolen From European Libraries
Alexander Pushkin, watercolor attributed to S. G. Chirikov, 1810. Source: Central Museum of A. S. Pushkin / Wikimedia Commons.
A Paris trial traces the theft of rare Russian books from libraries across Europe.
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