Having conquered land, sea, and air with his hotels, mega-yachts, and spaceships, Philippe Starck is still chasing aesthetic immortality. By Hudson Morgan
With its star-studded international art fair, the small city-state of Dubai, in the midst of a building boom, has become a destination for the globetrotting art-world elite. By András Szántó
In Kaukapakapa, New Zealand, New York artist Tony Oursler takes on the biggest, darkest project of his career—as well as a larger-than-life patron hell-bent on building himself the most outlandish private art playground on earth. By Dan Halpern
After fleeing Paris, Frédéric Malle and his wife, Marie, fused their Old World perspective with the modern era's greatest hits to turn a New York apartment into their own art project. By Christopher Petkanas
A rambunctious puppy, Wild West violence, and a girlfriend's bare behind fuel Piotr Uklański's rough-and-tumble brand of art-making, and it shows in his new cowboy film Summer Love. By Nathaniel Rich
Gabriel Orozco trekked through the jungles of Ecuador where he encountered ecological disaster, the threat of guerrilla attacks, and astonishing beauty — inspiration for a new crop of materpieces. By Kevin Conley
Sidestepping the critics, Brad Cloepfil transforms New York's most notorious building — and the challenge of museum design — into a gleaming vision of the future. By Mark Rozzo
Philip Johnson's Glass House launched an anything-goes architectural Eden. Now modernist veterans and rising stars alike are carrying the iconic box's spirit into the 21st century. By David Hay
He lives on his airplane, but for his New York layovers, Nathaniel Rothschild built a remote-controlled vertical loft — and reinvented the Manhattan town house. By Phoebe Eaton
The painter Walton Ford walked across New England with a flask of Scotch, a bottle of Tabasco, and the ghost of Audubon in his backpack. Even at 4,000 feet, his father, the beast he never tamed, was right on his heels. By Kevin Conley