Why Do We Keep So Many Notebooks?
Why Do We Keep So Many Notebooks? I own more notebooks than I will ever fill. I know this the way you know an uncomfortable…
A Place That Does Not Let You Go
A Place That Does Not Let You Go The cats arrive before anyone else. They appear from somewhere in the grove — one, then three,…
The Work That Remains
Mikaela Olovsdotter — The Work That Remains 2025, Oil on canvas, 80 x 00 cm The Work That Remains There is a house in almost…
Miroslav Tichý — The Outsider Artist
Images courtesy of the Tichý Ocean Foundation tichyocean.com Miroslav Tichý — The Outsider Artist Watching Tarzan Retired — Roman Buxbaum's 2004 documentary portrait of Miroslav…
The Sound of Silence
Photography: Serdar Öner @photoserdar The Sound of Silence There are images that capture a moment. And then there are images that seem to exist outside…
Sicily in Decay
Photography: Carlo Arancio, Sicily in Decay Exhibition Sicily in Decay There are houses in Sicily that no one has entered for decades — and yet,…
Decoration vs Atmosphere
Decoration vs Atmosphere The sun moves slowly across the floor, and the room changes without being touched. With bare feet I walk through it, feeling…
What This Magazine Is
What This Magazine Is It is 2026, and the third issue of Houses & Art is finished. It contains photographs of spaces that hold their…
The Quiet Room
There is a room in a house I once visited in Sicily where nothing happened. No furniture arranged for conversation, no art demanding attention. A…
The Work Before The Work
HOUSES & ART The Work Before the Work On restraint, silence, and responsibility. There is a version of every project that no one sees. It…