Some Australian artist studios open to the public in Sydney:
Brett Whitley https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/visit/brett-whiteley-studi...
May Gibbs https://www.maygibbs.com.au
What Happens to Artists' Studios After They Die?
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#12It's so cool to see this pop up on Hacker News. And also a very cool / smart-seeming trend that could maybe play a role in a more utopian atomized art world. Whatever that means?
My favorite classic suggestion down this rabbit hole that they probably mention (pay walled) is Francis Bacon's full-insano-mode preserved studio. I didn't really get his work until I saw his studio. Fun fact they literally used a painting of his to design the chest-burster in Alien? (I just learned that somehow)
https://www.francis-bacon.com/artworks/studio
http://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2015/02/ridley-inspire...
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#14Dalí's home and studio are open for public tours in Cadaqués (Catalunya), Spain. Worth a visit. The museum in Figueres is … okay. If you're a fan, go instead to the Dalí museum in Saint Petersburg, Florida. It's amazing and has many of his large-format masterworks, including Hallucinogenic Toreador .
I'm a fan of the home he built for Gala, it's beautiful and sad and romantic. Not far from the museum, in the countryside if I recall.
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#15I totally recommend Miró studio if you ever visit Mallorca, Spain.
https://miromallorca.com/en/
Well kept, super interesting and yet easy to miss for the average holiday-maker
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#16I totally recommend Miró studio if you ever visit Mallorca, Spain. https://miromallorca.com/en/ Well kept, super interesting and yet easy to miss for the average holiday-maker
Couldn't agree more! Not only is the studio kept so well, but the entire museum is a testament to the magnificence of art and architecture. The Miró Foundation in Barcelona is even bigger, equally exquisite and the sheer size is a monument to the brilliance of one of the greatest artists to ever live.
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#17Background: A client is a locally-famous artist (e.g. her portraits hang in multiple mansions and institutions around town). She turns 88 this year. A few years ago, I remodeled her former art studio, which she utilized from 1972 until 1994 [she then moved into a larger studio] — her typewriter was still at the same desk, with paint smears of decades ago still smeared upon. The new studio she established, in 1995, is an even more cluttered array of "art-iste" — also abandoned.
What happened to her previous two art studios? Ignored by all-but-time, these thousands of sqft have largely been left to rot away, decaying back into the forest which surrounds her estate. She is too cheap/thrifty to air condition these spaces (even as a multi-millionaire — penny-wise, pound-foolish), so termites and mice have pretty much "taken care of" her art studio.
And all-the-while, I watch as her husband continues enabling her hoarding, hatred, and hubris. The saddest part to me (beyond this artist allowing her own work to rot away) is that her mansion has a 1000sqft library (full-wall bookcasing) — which she also refuses to air condition (this is in a humid sub-tropical rainforest climate) — allowing all these 20th Century authors to rot among her own apathies.
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#18Background: A client is a locally-famous artist (e.g. her portraits hang in multiple mansions and institutions around town). She turns 88 this year. A few years ago, I remodeled her former art studio, which she utilized from 1972 until 1994 [she then moved into a larger studio] — her typewriter was still at the same desk, with paint smears of decades ago still smeared upon . The new studio she established, in 1995, i…
Shades of Great Expectations.
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#19Background: A client is a locally-famous artist (e.g. her portraits hang in multiple mansions and institutions around town). She turns 88 this year. A few years ago, I remodeled her former art studio, which she utilized from 1972 until 1994 [she then moved into a larger studio] — her typewriter was still at the same desk, with paint smears of decades ago still smeared upon . The new studio she established, in 1995, i…
Shades of Great Expectations.
Much like Miss Havisham, she's even maintained her princess room, for over seven decades, in the teenaged-years house she inherited from Daddy.
The most honest, evil woman I have ever met — and we've had some conversations (and I dozens of women). If I wrote some of her Spoken Truths onto this forum... I would probably get censored [this is an extremely HNW individual, from The Silent Generation]. Hate™ is real.
If there's anything I can convey from our decade-long relationship, it's that nobody can do everything ("wear all the hats") forever. Nobody has time to know how to do everything. You are your own worst enemy.
I have known her since she was still cleaning out the gutters, herself — but obviously age has reduced her to bedside (and she still won't air condition half her properties!).
Parkinsons is doing the rest. "Why would I care about what's going on with my property? I haven't been up their in forty years!?!"
Your heirs hate what you've become, trust me I know. When you die I will be throwing most of your worldly possessions into the dumpster — which your husband, daughter, and I have already prepaid-for — just like we did when renovating your older studio, just a few summers ago... RIP you Old Bitch =D
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The heiress affliction, e.g. also read Empty Mansions (book about heiress Hattie Clark) [0][1]
[0] https://www.amazon.com/Empty-Mansions-Mysterious-Huguette-Sp...
*[on my Top 10 random WTF non-fiction Human Experience books, to recommend, Reading List]