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Several events are billed as the “Met Gala of the South,” among them the High Museum of Art’s David C. Driskell Prize Gala, which on April 26...
In 2019, a reinterpreted version of the Mona Lisa painted by French pop-street artist Jean-Baptiste Launay, better known as Jisbar, floated more than...
Earlier this year, dancer Mor Mendel took the stage with Boston Dynamics’ Spot at 7×7, an annual symposium organized by the born-digital art and...
Paddy Johnson, writing about Pace Gallery’s 2019 expansion and its inaugural shows, said: “Loie Hollowell’s abstract paintings of blobs have...
At first glance, pairing the work of rising star Paloma Contreras Lomas and established multidisciplinary artist Ines Doujak—as the Center for Art,...
This past Monday, a mix of cultural and philanthropic luminaries gathered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to raise funds for YoungArts at the...
When a painting Claude Monet made of the grain mill at Limetz-Villez on the River Epte near his residence at Giverny in 1888 went on sale at...
At a 2014 press conference covered by El Mundo , Frank Gehry proclaimed that “98 percent of everything that is built and designed today is pure...
The March art fair calendar, which culminates with Art Basel Hong Kong in just a few days, heralds a busy April arts calendar that this year includes...
Earlier this week, London’s National Portrait Gallery held its first fundraising Gala since it reopened after renovations last year. The...
Two of the largest bronze figures created during the early Ming dynasty—one depicting guardian deity Panjarnata Mahakala and one the meditational...
Red has always stood out, even if its power is just now being discovered by creators pushing the Unexpected Red Theory on TikTok. It’s dichotomous:...
Aspen’s outsized presence in the cultural consciousness and billionaire appeal belies the fact that it’s actually a pretty small town. The caveat...
Since Christie’s launched Christie’s 3.0, a platform for selling NFTs on Ethereum’s blockchain, in 2022, the excitement around non-fungible...
This past Sunday marked the final day of the Frick Collection’s Madison Avenue residency in the iconic Marcel Breuer-designed Modernist building now...
When New York art dealer Aladar Marberger died in 1988, he was 41 years old and had been living with an AIDS diagnosis for three years. The keyword is...
A whiff of spring is in the air, though for many of us, the temperature outside still makes indoor activities more palatable. The February art fairs...
When Observer published a story about design duo George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg’s Perry Street home in one of the famed Richard Meier buildings...
Art accessibility has been a hot topic as of late, with many museums in the U.S. acknowledging the need to make more of an effort to connect with a...
The intersection of art and technology gets a lot of press these days. In any given headline, it might be the “next frontier.” Or where cultural...
Is paint what defines a painting or is there more to it? Artist Hannah Beerman, whose work was recently on view at Kapp Kapp in New York, creates...
Last year, Dan Hicks writing for The Architecture Review about his book The Brutish Museums: the Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural...
Simulation theory became a hot topic a few years back when physicists started talking openly about how reality as we know it might be virtual and we...
“Art is in my blood,” Argentine collector Claudia Quentin told Christie’s, which in just a few days will auction off one of the most exceptional...
Through up markets and down markets, the proliferation of contemporary art fairs is ongoing. Fair fatigue is real—gallery staff can spend ninety...
‘Modernizing’ opera with spare sets and costuming is an attractive proposition from several angles—smaller budgets and reduced complexity, among...
The Sundance Film Festival kicks off today, which means Park City, Utah is currently swarming with actors, directors, movie critics, film connoisseurs...
Like all the best auctions, The Collection of Sir Elton John: Goodbye Peachtree Road at Christie’s tells a compelling story. Atlanta might seem like...
Next to Seattle’s historic Space Needle is a techno-organic structure that looks straight out of sci-fi. Sporadically, a monorail travels through...
Data is beautiful, or so the data scientists say. They’re typically referring to visualizations that, if not particularly artful, stir the souls of...
Anyone who made it to Art Basel Miami Beach last month may have run into interdisciplinary visual artist Vita Kari, not in the convention center but...
One of Observer’s Arts Power 50 changemakers in 2019, the performance and installation artist William Pope.L was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1955,...
Jackson Hole, Wyoming is known for its world-class luxury hospitality, thrilling winter sports and pristine natural vistas, but ski resorts like...
As end-of-year group shows go, few have as compelling a title as “Sexy Xmas,” which has been mounted (ahem) annually at The Lodge in L.A. for...
If you think you’re not familiar with Austrian conceptual artist Erwin Wurm, you’re probably mistaken. There’s a good chance that you’ve...
Renowned gallerist Alan Hartman started his art collecting journey early, acquiring his first hardstone jade carving at age 12. When he died in...
Museum visits during the holiday season can be fraught, as major institutions tend to be significantly more crowded than usual with tourists and...
Art Miami and Art Basel Miami Beach 2023 are in full swing, with all the associated parties, pop-ups and sundry events, including everything from...
Michael Bouhanna, Vice President and Head of Digital Art & Contemporary Art Specialist at Sotheby’s, shared today (Dec. 7) that pioneering...
While the art world eagerly awaits the reopening of the Studio Museum in Harlem’s soon-to-be-ready physical space, the institution has been busy...
While the art world eagerly awaits the reopening of the Studio Museum in Harlem’s soon-to-be-ready physical space, the institution has been busy...
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Nearly a decade ago, more than 500 culturally significant artifacts, including pieces of Scythian gold from several Crimean museums, were on loan to...
This past April marked the 50th anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s passing at the age of 91. To honor his lasting impact on art, museums and other...
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley puts a lot of effort into installations with the expectation that audiences will put in just as much or even more. The...
Roric Tobin has a reputation for being the art collector’s designer—particularly among elite collectors looking to meld their collecting...
Like many others in the days following the Hamas attacks in Israel, the designers Annie Mandelkern, Nikki Levy, Dara Beitler and their compatriots...
In April of 2012, Observer’s then senior arts editor Andrew Russeth met with Robert Irwin at Pace Gallery’s East 57th Street space in midtown,...
Now in its 24th year, the celebrated event has raised a total of $120 million.
In conflicts between nations, irreplaceable art can become a casualty of war. Whether willfully or by chance, museums and cultural institutions suffer...