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"See how George Clooney, Rachel Zoe, Kate Bosworth, and Other Film and Art Stars Hang Their Artwork\nCelebrities from the film, fashion, and art worlds talk picture placement\nIn The Monuments Men, George Clooney\u2014who also directed and cowrote the movie\u2014plays Frank Stokes, a character based on George Stout, the real-life Iowa conservator who led a secret mission at the end of World War II to recover the many thousands of great artworks stolen and hidden by the Nazis. \"I don't collect art that much,\" Clooney admitted at the New York premiere. \"I have art all over my walls, but it's usually something that is personal to me. You would come in and say, \u2018Well, these are some terrible paintings.' Yeah, but they're important to me.\"\n\nAnd does Clooney hang the work himself? \"Sure, always,\" he answered, appearing sincere.\nHugh Bonneville\u2014perhaps better known as the Earl of Grantham on Downton Abbey\u2014plays art expert Donald Jeffries in The Monuments Men. \"Oh, my goodness me,\" Bonneville gushed on the red carpet at the Ziegfeld Theatre. \"I think I could wallow forever in the work of [English landscape painter] John Constable.\"\n\nAnd does Bonneville hang work at home himself? \"I have people,\" he offered, in the vein of the earl.\n\n\"Me, with a hammer and nails,\" added his wife, standing beside him and bringing him back to this century.\n\"We are really scared to hang pictures because we keep changing our minds and getting different pieces,\" said Bob Balaban, who plays Preston Savitz, a theater impresario and art connoisseur in The Monuments Men. \"Traditionally, we only lean pictures on top of tables or on the floor against the wall,\" he said. \"We have one or two big pieces, and we hang them from the picture frame molding. And our Picasso . . . we keep in a vault. I'm kidding!\"\nJohn Goodman, who plays sculptor Walter Garfield, says his collection is regionally infused. \"I don't have a decorator, but we pick up something once in a while. It's a lot of southern art,\" he said. And yes, Goodman does it himself: \"Nail in the wall, yeah!\"\nOn his way into a recent Cinema Society screening at the Museum of Modern Art, artist Jeff Koons offered a personal insight. \"I think it's wonderful to put your favorite piece right across from your bed,\" he said. \"You look at it every morning and every night before going to sleep, so more than any other piece, you contemplate that work.\"\n\nKoons is seen here at the event with his wife, Justine Wheeler.\nAt Sotheby's for the \"Take Home a Nude\" auction, Naomi Watts, whose mother, Miv, is an inspired interior designer, suggested, \"I like to hold them up. And if you can't, I lean them against the wall for a while before I commit.\n\n\"It's expensive investing in art. I'm always looking for the new artists that are emerging. That's why I love this evening. In fact, I must leave,\" she said, politely bringing our chat to a close, \"because I plan on bidding.\"\nLake Bell, also at \"Take Home a Nude,\" defers to her husband, Scott Campbell, a tattoo visionary. \"Scott and I both kind of experiment in our home. I trust his artistic whims implicitly.\" Campbell chimed in, explaining how he displays his finds. \"Usually the center of the artwork is 60 inches off the ground,\" he said. \"But I drop it a little lower. I find it a little bit more intimate.\"\n\nBell is pictured here at the ESPY Awards.\nAs so many contemporary-art lovers live with work by James Nares, AD was sure to seek him out at Sotheby's. \"I let somebody else do it,\" he said. \"I'm better at making the work than hanging it.\"\n\nNares is seen here at the event with Elizabeth Blake.\nAt Sotheby's, artist Walton Ford, wearing a mauve suit by Nutters of Savile Row, told the Inquisitive Guest that he likes variety at home. \"I do a salon-style thing. They're all over the place.\" And is there a unifying theme or tone? \"No, my aesthetic at home is kind of my own. Everything that I have looks good with everything else that I have. There will be a death mask and a [William] Hogarth print and a bit of natural history and a 19th-century photograph of Cairo.\"\nAD asked Sotheby's chairman Jamie Niven\u2014who is as tall as he is charming\u2014if his towering height affected the eye level of his collection at home. \"No, you've got to look at what an average height is, 5'10\", and where your eye settles in the middle of the painting,\" he explained. \"If you know how to do it, it is pretty easy. I think that's sort of fun. I don't have a professional do it. I try to mix and match. If possible, I have three or four paintings on the wall. I prefer that to one big painting.\"\nPaddle8 cofounder Alexander Gilkes, a sponsor of \"Take Home a Nude,\" shared that he was attempting a new arrangement at home. \"We just started a great salon-style section in the dining room,\" he said. \"I did it myself, with a guy from my team at Paddle8, who happens to be a former art installer. So I bribed him with a gift bottle of whiskey, and he came around with a full Black &amp;amp; Decker belt one weekend.\"\n\nGilkes is pictured here at an event with his wife, Misha Nonoo.\nDuring a gala at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, AD encountered celebrated California artist Ed Moses. \"I paint outside,\" he said. \"And I tilt the paintings against the wall, and after I have ten that I really like, I fasten them to the wall so I can really see them.\"\nOver cocktails hosted by Variety and Women in Film before the Emmy Awards, Twilight's Nikki Reed told AD that she's a hands-on hanger. \"I use locking screws because nails fall out,\" she said. \"But I don't have a lot of patience with these things. Paul [McDonald, her husband and a former American Idol contestant] does all the measuring, and then I just screw the thing in. The art in my house tells the story of my travels, where I've been.\"\nFront row at a Cushnie et Ochs fashion show, actress Kate Bosworth wore a sexy wetsuit-inspired black dress by the designers. \"My husband [hangs our art],\" she said, referring to the talented film director Michael Polish. \"He graduated from CalArts [California Institute of the Arts]. He had to really learn how to hang a painting over and over again.\"\nCatching her friend Thakoon Panichgul's fashion show, actress Christina Ricci wore a simple black dress by the designer. \"I generally do it myself,\" she told AD. \"And there is a bit of trial and error. I put it up, and then I step back, and then I do it again. I realize I'm not going to get it perfect the first time. I try to make it intentionally asymmetrical so I don't have to screw with having everything perfectly even.\"\n\nRicci is pictured here at another Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week event.\nMark Ruffalo, in a color-blocked jacket with his beard streaked gray, waited dutifully with his wife, Sunrise Coigney, in a long line in front of a Zero + Maria Cornejo fashion show. We talked about hanging paintings during the wait, and he claimed that to do it right, it was all about the high-tech equipment. \"I use a laser level,\" he said. \"You have to have that. I've done some of them, and they're impossible to hang without one.\"\nJust prior to a Charlotte Ronson fashion show, the Inquisitive Guest spoke with Paris Hilton. \"The person who designed my house sends someone,\" Hilton informed AD. \"Did you think I'd know how to do it? I'd be too scared to use a hammer. I'd destroy my walls.\"\n\nHilton is pictured here at the opening of an exhibition.\nDesigner and top stylist Rachel Zoe, sitting with her husband, Rodger Berman, in the front row at the Charlotte Ronson show, admitted using the task as a form of retribution. \"I was mad at him [for being hungover on New Year's Day], and as his punishment, I made him hang 13 pieces of art.\" Berman begged to differ: \"It was 50.\" Zoe and Berman are pictured here at an awards ceremony.\n\"Hopefully, I hang them in a very straight line,\" joked actress Rose Byrne, wearing a lace top and a black skirt with black lederhosen-style straps in the front row at a Jill Stuart fashion show. \"I have a really nice super who comes up and helps me do it . . . or if there is a man in the house,\" she said, referring to her boyfriend, actor Bobby Cannavale.\n\nByrne and Cannavale are pictured here at the Emmy Awards.\n\"How do I hang my paintings? I don't,\" offered Dee Ocleppo, backstage at husband Tommy Hilfiger's menswear show. \"We have a decorator hang them or whoever might be handy in the apartment. Tommy does not know what a hammer is. I would take a hammer before Tommy would.\"\nThe Newsroom's Emily Mortimer took a moment to chat with AD before a Jason Wu show. \"My husband [actor Alessandro Nivola] is incredibly meticulous about it. His grandfather was Abstract Expressionist painter and sculptor Constantino Nivola. They still have his house in the Springs, in East Hampton, where Corbusier painted murals on the walls. So they're fascistic about how pictures are hung, and they measure.\"\n\nMortimer is pictured here at a Golden Globes after-party.\nAlso at the Jason Wu show, jewelry designer Zani Gugelmann noted that AD's international style editor Carlos Mota was assisting with the interior of her apartment. \"However Carlos would like me to hang them,\" she answered. \"I like pieces that cover a large area. And Carlos sends someone to put them up.\"\n\nGugelmann is pictured here at a private film screening.\n\"I don't,\" answered actress China Chow, the petite daughter of famed art collector Michael Chow. \"I tell them, 'Please make it level,'\" she explained to AD at the Jason Wu show. \"You're supposed to keep paintings at eye level, but my eye level is definitely different from some other people's. Another way to do it is to hang the art from the ceiling on cables so you don't make holes in the walls. I don't do it that way, but my father does,\" she said.\nDesigner Reed Krakoff offered this important advice at a film premiere: \"Use two nails and you never have to adjust the picture.\"\nOn his way into a New Yorkers for Children benefit, group president of the Est\u00E9e Lauder Companies and MAC AIDS Fund chairman John Demsey informed AD that at his townhouse on the Upper East Side, \"I have a professional art hanger who works for the Whitney Museum who hangs them on rotation every four months.\" And the photos that line the walls of his bright red living room? \"Yes, the photos change, too,\" he said. \"I've got 550, so they rotate. But the furniture stays.\"\n\nDemsey is pictured here at a brunch.\nAttending the Eric Fishl exhibition at Guild Hall, the artist's wife, April Gornik, insisted that they are DIY at home. \"We talk about it, and on occasion, one of us will be beset with inspiration and do something without asking. We primarily have other people's work\u2014our friend Bryan Hunt's sculpture, David Salle, Jean Pagliuso, and Lucy Winton. We just want our house to look nice, and I never fault someone for hanging something where it will look good with the fireplace or over their couch. You can't ignore those things.\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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