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Gallerist Leopold Thun Shares the Inspiration Behind Emalin’s Expansion
When galleries open outposts, they often choose an international location or one that telegraphs intentions in a hipper or more salubrious part of town. But with the opening of Emalin’s second...
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Cindy Sherman Explores Our Photo Editing Addictions at Hauser & Wirth
Cindy Sherman, New York artist and trailblazer of the selfie, once said she hates being called “a selfie queen” and that the appellation is total “cringe.” But there’s no denying that Sherman is the...
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A New Exhibition at The Museum at FIT Explores the Secret History of the Sleeve
“Statement Sleeves,” the new exhibit at The Museum at FIT, comes at an apt time. Curated by Colleen Hill, curator of costume and accessories at The Museum, it opened in tandem with the Spring/ Summer...
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Reflection and Joy: Theaster Gates On His Practice, Preservation and Being a...
A few weeks ago, Theaster Gates opened “Hold Me, Hold Me, Hold Me,” his first show with White Cube’s newly opened New York City outpost. Though Gates is often categorized as a sculptor, his art...
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Art Collector Spotlight: Jon Shirley and Kim Richter Shirley
Former president, COO and director of Microsoft Jon Shirley, 84, discovered Alexander Calder when he was a student at The Hill preparatory school outside of Philadelphia. He took a three-year...
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Artist Jesse Darling Wants Us to Think About What Hurts
Berlin-based, Oxford-born artist Jesse Darling believes in community but openly reckons with Western colonial history, artistic appropriation and the ugliness of modern manufacture. Darling won the...
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One Fine Show: ‘Drawing on Blue’ at the Getty Center in Los Angeles
Paper is an amazing piece of technology, the impact of its popularization can be felt on a trip to the Morgan Library—or any library. Without paper, we wouldn’t have the Gutenberg Bibles that fomented...
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Capturing Connection: Photographer Clifford Prince King On Relationships,...
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 wider range of audiences. It’s not that people don’t...
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Curator Aimee Ng Opens Up About What She Learned from Frick Madison
This month marks the last full one for Frick Madison, the can’t-miss experiment from the 88-year-old institution that brought fantastic works from Henry Clay Frick’s former home to the Marcel...
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Art Collector Spotlight: Designers George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg
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 back in 2015, the writer opened with this statement:...
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Community Comes First at Ethan James Green’s New York Life Gallery
There’s graffiti on the door of 167-169 Canal Street, along with its address in bold red block letters on the glass and, behind that, a long set of stairs cascading upward. I’m buzzed in, and I wind...
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How Museums Are Diversifying to Attract New Audiences in the Post-Pandemic Era
The pandemic did a number on museums in the U.S. and worldwide. When these institutions closed for varying lengths of time, they lost admissions and membership revenues while people, perhaps, lost the...
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American Voyeurism: The Allure of the Figure Lives in Nigel Van Wieck’s Work
Looking through strangers’ windows qualifies as a hobby in New York City. Where one goes to people-watch is a question that the city’s influencers and public figures answer with glee. Soho!...
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Philanthropist Lisa Saltzman Is Launching an Annual Prize for Emerging...
Lisa Saltzman, a patron in the worlds of art and design, is launching a new prize dedicated to recognizing emerging photographers. In addition to awarding recipients $10,000, the annual Saltzman Prize...
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How Artists’ Personal Brands Bring in Big Bucks
You may see Bob Timberlake, the 86-year-old artist in Lexington, North Carolina, only as a painter of rural imagery (house in the woods, wicker chair in front of hydrangeas, house surrounded by a snowy...
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Alison McDonald Opens Up About Gagosian Quarterly’s Editorial Refresh
When Alison McDonald first joined Gagosian as publishing director, the art gallery still followed the traditional model of sending out invitation cards for upcoming exhibitions. “An invitation card is...
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Christie’s Is Poised to Break Brice Marden’s Auction Record With a $50M Painting
A never-before-seen Brice Marden painting is expected to smash the abstract artist’s auction record when it is offered up by Christie’s this spring. Painted between 2004 and 2007, Event “marks the...
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Why Giorgio Pace Wants to Keep NOMAD as Exclusive as Possible
Yesterday (Feb. 21), NOMAD returned to St. Moritz for the seventh time since Giorgio Pace and Nicolas Bellavance-Lecompte’s exclusive contemporary art and design fair first mounted a show in the chic...
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One Fine Show: ‘Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971’ at the Detroit...
Recently I attended a talk given by an artist and a film professor about the history and influence of Black cinema, a nebulous term that was among the first topics explored. It wasn’t a formal talk, so...
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This Honolulu Exhibition of David Hockney Prints Trades One Paradise for Another
For most, landing in Hawaii means finally arriving in paradise. For the self-avowed aesthete, however, white sand beaches and playfully swaying palms are only the amuse-bouche in a larger journey of...
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