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Damien Hirst to Take Over the Entire Château La Coste Estate
Damien Hirst isn’t known for his subtlety—the British artist has publicly burnt his artwork in an incinerator, encrusted human skulls with diamonds and preserved animals in formaldehyde. Now, Hirst is...
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Don’t Miss: ‘Sexy Xmas VII’ at The Lodge in L.A.
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 seven years. It’s a Christmas tradition we can get...
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Collector Spotlight: Arthur Lewis On His Inspirations and Taking Artists to...
Arthur Lewis’ love and appreciation for art have blurred the line between his vocation and his avocations. As director of United Talent Agency’s Fine Arts division—UTA being one of the largest talent...
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‘Law & Order’ Creator and Art Collector Dick Wolf’s Surprise Donation to the...
Christmas has come early for New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. The institution is receiving an eight-figure endowment and more than 200 works of art in an unexpected gift from Dick Wolf, creator...
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Staying Bright-Eyed, Artist Tony Camaro Puts Youth First
Tony Camaro paints, but he isn’t bound to one medium or artistic practice. He has released clothing collections and designed utilitarian objects like lunch boxes and bike tool bags. He draws and...
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The Best Jackson Hole Art Galleries
Jackson Hole, Wyoming is known for its world-class luxury hospitality, thrilling winter sports and pristine natural vistas, but ski resorts like Caldera House, the high-end hotels in Jackson Hole and...
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One Fine Show: Paul Pfeiffer at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum outside of New York City—a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. An underrated...
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The Provocative and Risqué Rise of Painter Fabian Cháirez
In December of 2019, Mexico City’s iconic Bellas Artes Palace was besieged by a throng of protesters demanding that one of the paintings on display be taken down—burned, even. The painting in question...
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One Fine Show: ’50 Paintings’ at the Milwaukee Art Museum
Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum outside of New York City—a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. It’s fair to...
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Crawling Performance Art Pioneer Pope.L Dies at 68
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, and much of his initial artistic studies as well as...
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The Smithsonian Strengthens Ties with the U.S. State Department
The reach of the Smithsonian, the world’s largest museum, research and education complex, is about to get even larger. For years the institution has collaborated with the U.S. Department of State on...
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Dan Lam On Mastering the Art of the Drip
If anyone has mastered the art of the drip, it is artist Dan Lam. Her organic yet otherworldly sculptures have gone viral, attracting hundreds of thousands of new followers on social media and new...
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Patrick Martinez’s ‘Ghost Land’ Conjures Up a Disappearing Los Angeles
Patrick Martinez grew up in Los Angeles. When he was about twelve years old, he and his older brother and some of their friends started painting on walls—an activity that would ultimately influence...
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Michael Ho’s Cultural Rediscovery Through Liminal Spaces
At 31 years old, the Chinese-German artist Michael Ho is a regular at his favorite lunch spot: a casual community center dedicated to the East and South East Asian diaspora, next to his studio in the...
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A Rare 18th-Century Protest Placard Could Fetch $6M at Christie’s
One of the earliest papers documenting revolt in the American colonies against Great Britain is coming to auction. A placard defying the Stamp Act, a colonial tax on printed goods passed by the...
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The Invincible Jim Dine On Drive, Draftsmanship and His Own Mortality
Artist Jim Dine is a painter, sculptor, printmaker and poet—one who exemplifies what it takes to master a craft. He works seven days a week, 365 days a year, except when he’s traveling between studios...
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Robert De Niro Is Building His Father’s Artistic Legacy
As part of the recent collaboration between the Tribeca Film Festival and Art Basel, the lush grounds of Miami Beach Botanical Garden played host to a small but distinguished audience (Leonardo...
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Sharon Stone Exorcises Pain Through Painting
To this day, people think of Sharon Stone as the femme fatale in Paul Verhoeven’s Basic Instinct, but she is so much more than that: award-winning actor, mother and—this may be news to some—artist....
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Velázquez Portrait Expected to Shatter Auction Records Quietly Withdrawn
Velázquez’s Isabel de Borbón, Queen of Spain could have become the artist’s most expensive painting when it went to auction at Sotheby’s in February, but the masterpiece was withdrawn without much...
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One Fine Show: Israhel van Meckenem at the Chazen Museum of Art
Personal branding is a major focus in the “Art of Enterprise: Israhel van Meckenem’s 15th-Century Print Workshop,” recently opened exhibition at the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of...
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