Beyond the Frame
Long-form artist stories and the ideas that continue after the object.
Independent editorial · Published twice monthly
The House Index
An independent publication on art, value, provenance, archives, culture, and the markets moving around them. Published in volumes by House of Eight.
Editorial departmentsA publication built in volumes
Five ways of looking closer.
The House Index moves between art, value, provenance, archives, and culture without reducing one to the other.
Collection Intelligence
Practical thinking around acquisitions, stewardship, value, and the life of a collection.
The Archive
Provenance, documentation, cultural records, and the histories held around works.
Market Signals
Careful observations on private markets, changing appetite, and the forces shaping value.
Object Lessons
Close readings of individual works, materials, editions, and the details that change understanding.
Current volumeVol. 01 · Three issues
Latest · Vol. 01 · No. 03
House Brief · Collection Intelligence
After Peter Max
What happens to certificates, studio authority, and collector confidence when a prolific artist dies?Read the story
Vol. 01 · No. 02
House Brief · The Archive
Stolen Twice?
The theft of two Renoirs from the artist's former home is already an art-world mystery. Their unresolved postwar histories make it a lesson in something less cinematic, but more consequential: who is holding a work is not always who owns it.Read the story
Vol. 01 · No. 01
Beyond the Frame · Yayoi Kusama
The Infinite Is Still Expanding
Yayoi Kusama did not simply decorate the world with dots. She used repetition to dissolve its edges and, in doing so, changed what art could hold.Read the storyAbout the publicationConceived in volumes
Built to be read now, and kept.
The House Index brings together long-form essays, collecting intelligence, provenance, archives, market context, and the cultural lives of objects.
The digital edition is the first expression of a publication conceived in volumes, with an editorial structure designed to support future collected and print editions without compromising the independence of the writing.
- Publisher
- House of Eight
- Frequency
- Twice monthly
- Editorial direction
- Melodi · Principal & Founder
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