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Pipilotti Rist Explores Interior and Exterior in Two Chelsea Galleries
Walking into Luhring Augustine on 24th Street, gallery visitors must pass a large red textile work quilted with multiple colorful patterns: Pipilotti Rist’s Textile Gleichzeitigkeit (Joey Foulard)...
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A Guide to All the March Art Fairs
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 have mostly come and gone—thankfully the calendar of...
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The Gallery of the Future: Navigating the Evolving World of Digital Art
When we imagine the future, our minds often drift to scenes filled with flying cars, towering modern buildings and technology that seamlessly responds to our every gesture. Yet in these futuristic...
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The Art Collection of Senator Dianne Feinstein and Richard Blum Heads to Auction
Senator Dianne Feinstein and her husband Richard Blum, who died respectively in 2023 and 2022, led lives filled with influence, success and an appetite for international travel—and left behind an...
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Don’t Miss: Barbara Kruger’s Enduring Prophecies at Serpentine South
Few contemporary artists are as recognizable, or as imitated, as Barbara Kruger. The American artist (1945—), who first rose to fame in the 1980s with artworks that pilfered the language of...
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One Fine Show: “Eluding Capture” at MASS MoCA
It’s that time of year when everyone in the art world is buying their plane tickets for Venice for the Biennale Arte, where each participating country stages an exhibition with a citizen artist whose...
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A Rare Portrait of Lucian Freud’s Stepson Hits the Auction Block
Friends, family and romantic partners dominate the oeuvre of British painter Lucian Freud, whose work often documented his personal relationships. His children, who numbered more than a dozen, were...
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Beyond Frieze: An Insider’s Guide to What’s On in the Los Angeles Art Scene
Los Angeles continues to solidify its place as a cultural hub, attracting prominent artists, museums and New York-based galleries drawn in by its gravitational pull—not to mention Southern...
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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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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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Art Accessibility Is Behind Perrotin Gallery’s New Partnership With eBay
Most people don’t associate eBay with high art, but through a new gallery partnership, the e-commerce company will sell limited-edition works from the likes of artists Takashi Murakami, Daniel Arsham...
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Is ARTECHOUSE’s ‘World of AI·magination’ the Future of Art?
A 6,000-square-foot futuristic art space hides below the popular food hall and shopping hub that is New York City’s Chelsea Market, and the unassuming white-on-black sign on the brick wall outside...
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One Fine Show: ‘Multiple Realities’ at the Walker Art Center
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. “The world...
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Photographer David LaChapelle On Photography, Worshiping Stevie Wonder and...
There are two Davids in pop culture: David Chapelle, the comedian, and David LaChapelle, the world-renowned photographer Jay-Z rapped about on “All the Way Up.” Few photographers get a shout-out like...
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A Guide to All the February Art Fairs
Through up markets and down markets, the proliferation of contemporary art fairs is ongoing. Fair fatigue is real—gallery staff can spend ninety days each year on the road—but what’s the alternative?...
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One Fine Show: James McNeill Whistler at the National Museum of Asian 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. Some of the...
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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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