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An Early David Hockney Pool Painting Hits the Auction Block With a $20M Estimate
When English painter David Hockney first flew into Los Angeles in the early 1960s, he was struck by the aerial view of bright blue swimming pools scattered across the city. “In England, a swimming...
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The ‘Most Important Collection’ of Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes Goes to...
“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 collections of masterworks of Renaissance and Baroque...
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Artist Duo Orejarena & Stein On Simulations, Artistry and the Nature of Reality
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 all found out that the CIA was open to the...
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The Most Anticipated Art Museum Openings and Expansions of 2024
Last year, Dan Hicks writing for The Architecture Review about his book The Brutish Museums: the Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution asked the question, ‘Are museums obsolete?‘...
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The Noguchi Museum’s Amy Hau On Preserving the Artist’s Legacy and Building...
Last month, it was announced that Amy Hau would serve as the next director of the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, colloquially known as The Noguchi Museum, in Long Island City, Queens. The...
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Astoundingly Human: An Interview with Artist Hannah Beerman
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 works on canvas that push right past the boundaries...
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Zélika García Looks Back on Twenty Years of ZONAMACO
“In the beginning, I was just trying to do a fair,” recalled Zélika García, the founder of Latin America’s leading arts platform, ZONAMACO. “Nobody understood why we were trying to make a fair in...
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A Look Inside ‘A Love Supreme’ at Chicago’s Elmhurst Art Museum
“It still touches me,” artist and designer Norman Teague tells me in a soft-spoken voice as we sit in the glass-enclosed lobby of the Elmhurst Art Museum, looking out at the snow. “I told myself I...
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Don’t Miss: The Intense Stillness of Celia Paul’s ‘Life Painting’
“The main theme of the exhibition has to do with looking and being looked at,” Celia Paul told me. “I wanted to try and subvert the notion of passivity—to take back control.” The work, Painter Seated...
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One Fine Show: ‘In the Right Place’ at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
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. Do you ever...
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Is Matthew Wong the 21st Century’s van Gogh?
“The Realm of Appearances,” the Matthew Wong retrospective currently on view at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, is full of ghosts. There’s the ghost of Wong himself, of course, who died by suicide in...
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Arts Travelogue: Finding Dali in Cadaqués
I recently went for a long walk, over several weeks, down the Costa Brava from Banyuls, France to Sitges in Spain. I walked with no particular destination and on no schedule, so when I ended up in...
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The Best Art Galleries in Engadin Valley, Switzerland
In the southeastern part of Switzerland in the Swiss canton of Graubünden lies the Engadin Valley. People are usually drawn to this picture-perfect area of the country by the unparalleled skiing,...
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The Art of Mexico City, On and Off the Beaten Path
Avenida Paseo de la Reforma is the backbone of Mexico City, its tallest skyscrapers lining the boulevard like a great set of vertebrae, a spine occasionally punctuated by the chakras of enormous...
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Sea, Space and Doubt: Artist Mary Weatherford On Inspiration and Conversation
Not long ago, artist Mary Weatherford opened a show of new paintings at Gagosian 980 Madison Avenue, “Sea and Space,” which probes the depths of these concepts alongside their real natural beauty....
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Barbara Kruger Is Still Flipping the Bird
Until the late 1970s, making a zine was a labor of love and money. Love as in time spent assembling the thing—the cutting out, the sticking together. Money as in paying a service to print issues. By...
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One Fine Show: Anida Yoeu Ali’s Performance Pieces at the Seattle Asian Art...
Some thirteen years ago, for this very publication, I had the pleasure of watching the recently deceased William Pope.L direct a performance piece at the Museum of Modern Art that involved a group of...
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DON’T MISS: Glenn Kaino’s ‘Walking with a Tiger’ at Pace Gallery
The disappearance of wild tigers in Japan, despite their profound significance in Japanese culture and art, has long captivated people. This invisible tiger mystique finds resonance in the work of...
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Rhizome’s 7×7 Models a Deeper Collaboration Between Art and Science
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 innovation happens. On some days, it’s spawning new job...
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Gallerist Maria Bernheim On Her London Opening and Getting High on Her Own...
One night late last year, Maria Bernheim opened the doors of her five-story gallery in central London for its inaugural group exhibition, “The Big Chill” (recently replaced by “Mirage,” the second...
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