New Museum’s ‘Songs for Sabotage’ Comes Off Like a Teen Garage Band
True enough to its name, the New Museum's 2018 Triennial, called 'Songs for Sabotage,' shows work by artists who are young, international, transgressive, grotesque-inclined and shrill.
View ArticleArtist Who Gilded NYC’s 34th Street Subway Station Takes on Detroit
'A bird doesn’t get up and wonder if it should sing. Animals know what they need to do and they do it. This is what I do,' said Michele Oka Doner, explaining her work.
View ArticleMuseum of Sex Dives Into #MeToo With Photo Show of Women in Bondage
The curators invited the controversial photographer's models to talk about their experiences during his shoots.
View ArticleThese Are the Indian Modernist Masters Left Out of Art History
On view at DAG, 'India’s French Connection' offers a challenging chapter to the conventional, white male-dominated art historical narrative
View ArticleWhy People Still Get Worked Up About Jasper Johns’s ‘Flag’ Painting
His flag paintings now fetch hundreds of millions of dollars.
View ArticleArt Galleries in India Made a Simple Change and Sales are Spiking
Art sales in India are on the rise as the gallery scene solidifies its focus on local talent.
View ArticleThis Harlem Woman’s Sunday Best Turned Her Into a Style Icon
'She's a study in the art of living, of doing things on your own time and surrounding yourself with beauty,' photographer Calmese said of his muse.
View ArticleThis Artist Threw a Party Where Immigrants Could Express Their Anger
Katya Grokhovsky turned Queens's Flux Factory into a replica city, and invited immigrants like herself to destroy it.
View ArticleExperimental Sound Makers and Podcasters Unite at Brooklyn’s On Air Fest
Uniting artists, musicians and storytellers, On Air Fest features the next generation of podcasters taking audio to new heights.
View ArticleThe Artists Busting the Myth That Big Paintings Sell Better
'Festival Art,' as Peter Schjeldahl termed it, is out. Artist like Betty Tompkins, Ewelina Bochenska and Paul Inglis are leading the charge for painting small.
View ArticleThe Ellsworth Kelly Artwork That’s Putting Austin on the Map
'Austin' is not a place to hold works of art, it is a piece in and of itself—and it was the last thing the influential minimalist Ellsworth Kelly created.
View Article‘My Cat Made Me Do It,’ and Other Ways People Try to Back Out of Auction Bids
Nonpayment is something all auction houses have to reckon with. Bidders have used everything from 'my kid did it' to 'my cat jumped on the mouse' to try to get out of paying up on a sale.
View ArticleHelp the #5WomenArtists Social Media Challenge Succeed…By Making It Unnecessary
In some ways, the ultimate goal will be for the hashtag to fail. They'll stop needing to ask people if they can name five female artists once most people can answer, "YES!"
View ArticleHow the Bronx Museum Is Using Art Class to Talk to Kids About Gun Violence
Empowering kids to speak on this issue of gun violence in schools is something that New York’s Bronx Museum has been working at steadily for three years, ever sine they started their Art as a Catalyst...
View ArticleArt Fair Survival Guide: How to See Everything Without Hating Your Life
Tip number 2: Have a hangover cure at the ready.
View ArticleGalleries Get It Right: NYC’s Not-to-Miss Spring Exhibitions Are All Female...
This year, it seems that New York City galleries have largely chosen to put solo shows by women front and center during Armory week—arguably the most important exhibition dates of the year. Changes in...
View ArticleObserver Editors Discuss Affordable Art Fair Favorites
Editors discuss their favorite pieces. Snap them up quickly: the early bird gets the, uh, drawing.
View ArticleThe Personal, Punitive Reasons Behind Trump’s Proposed Cuts to Arts Funding
Budget cuts won’t kill the arts—nothing can do that—but they will make it a whole lot harder to be an artist or promote the arts, and cause economic devastation on a both a micro and macro scale.
View ArticleThe Long Overlooked Female Artists Suddenly Getting Market Attention
One hopes that investing in work by overlooked women is more than just a fashionable trend given the social climate.
View ArticleThis Tax Law Created to Reprimand Nixon Has Been Cheating Artists for Decades
Thanks to Nixon gaming the system, when an artist donates a work of art, whether its value is $10 or $10 million, they get no tax incentive. Meanwhile a collector can write off the full price.
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