By Wim Langedijk for HURS
A Desert Walk with Rainer Judd and Other Reads
HUR Reads is our definitive shortlist of the most prominent articles from around the web.
By HURS Team
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Walks of Life with Rainer Judd
At the Judd Foundation’s 40,000 acres in Marfa, Texas, Rainer Judd is carrying forward her father Donald Judd’s legacy through land conservation. Having returned to the desert in 2016, she has dedicated herself to restoring its fragile ecosystem, removing invasive plants and reintroducing native species. The work offers her a tangible way to address environmental anxiety while preserving the landscape she has known since childhood.
THE PLANT MAGAZINE
Louise Trotter is finding her footing at Bottega Veneta, bringing her understated design sensibility to the Italian house while drawing inspiration from its heritage and cultural associations. Her creative vision is informed by Peggy Guggenheim, whose curiosity and artistic independence have become a recurring reference. As she gradually evolves the brand’s identity, Trotter is also using her position to champion women in an industry where female leadership remains scarce.
HOW TO SPEND IT
After decades of working outside the mainstream art world, Japanese-born painter Takako Yamaguchi is receiving long-overdue recognition, including a Whitney Biennial appearance and a recent museum exhibition. Now 74, she continues to explore contrasting styles, from surreal seascapes to austere geometric paintings. In a new interview, she reflects on artistic independence, the art market’s belated interest in women artists and her commitment to painting for as long as she can.
T MAGAZINE
Having endured relentless paparazzi attention and tabloid phone hacking as a young actress, Keira Knightley has a personal understanding of surveillance. Now, she is exploring the subject in two projects: the returning Netflix series Black Doves and a stage adaptation of The Lives of Others. At 41, she reflects on the toll of early fame, the quieter career she has built and the appeal of playing complicated women navigating systems of power.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
In this imaginative essay, Lucy Ellmann gives a cello a life of its own, transforming the instrument into a being capable of rescuing animals, saving lives and intervening in environmental disasters. Through its imagined adventures and its renditions of Bach, the cello becomes a vehicle for reflecting on humanity’s destruction of the natural world and its cultural inheritance. An impassioned defense of creativity and the human capacity for connection.