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“Detail from a Mural” at Salon 94 Honors the Influential Artist Ahmed Morsi
“Detail from a Mural” introduces a selection of 12 exceptional paintings from Egyptian-born artist Ahmed Morsi. On show at New York’s Salon 94 through December 18, the artworks encapsulate the...
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Everyone Is Devastated That bell hooks Has Passed Away
All someone would have to do to register the tectonic impact activist and author bell hooks had on contemporary writers, thinkers and people is check Twitter: on Wednesday, news broke that hooks had...
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The Old Ottessa Moshfegh Can’t Come to the Phone Right Now
When Ottessa Moshfegh’s second novel, My Year of Rest and Relaxation, debuted in 2018, something shifted. The book is still passed around with talismanic reverence because here it was; someone had...
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A Ton of People Came Back from Art Basel Miami Beach With Covid
The omicron variant of the coronavirus is ripping through New York City: on Thursday, Bill de Blasio’s senior public health advisor Dr. Jay Varma tweeted that the percentage of NYC residents who...
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The Sackler Family Won’t Receive Bankruptcy Protections, New York Judge Rules
On Thursday, a week after the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that the Sackler family name would be taken down off seven of its exhibition walls, Purdue Pharma’s proposed bankruptcy settlement...
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Thus Far, No Major New York Museums Have Shut Down Due to Omicron
On Sunday, the state of New York clocked a new record when it comes to cases of Covid-19: the positivity rate in New York is now at 8.4%, and the state has logged nearly 22,500 cases. With hours-long...
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Finding Inner Peace at the Rubin Museum Amidst Chaos
Imagine wandering into a quiet, 2,700 square foot sanctuary of a room, tucked away from the busy, boisterous streets of Manhattan. The room is filled with a self-directed sound bath, a light-guided...
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Digital Art Thrived at Art Basel Miami, but the ‘Working Situation Was a...
Last week, it became abundantly clear that the resurgent Covid-19 surge in the state of New York was no joke; simultaneously, accounts on social media began to pour forth indicating that many...
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The Met Is Reducing Visitor Capacity in Light of the Covid-19 Surge
In the midst of a Covid-19 surge that’s seen tens of thousands of new positive cases wallop the state of New York, major museums in New York City are beginning to adjust their protocols to handle the...
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The Guggenheim’s Director Got a Big Raise While Staff Were Laid Off
On Monday, news broke that Richard Armstrong, the director of New York’s Guggenheim museum, was the recipient of a significant pay hike last year in the midst of pandemic-related staffer turmoil at...
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Inside the Legal Thicket Ensnaring Purdue Pharma and the Sacklers
December 2021 has been an eventful month in the saga of the Sacklers, longtime arts philanthropists and the family behind the Purdue Pharma OxyContin empire that’s currently experiencing a reckoning...
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A Tiananmen Square Statue Was Removed from the University of Hong Kong
Late on Thursday evening, according to new reports, workers on the University of Hong Kong campus quietly removed a statue that had been taking up residence on its plinth for over two decades. The...
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Art Fairs and Museums are Shutting Down Because of the Covid-19 Surge
With Covid-19 once more ripping through the world with unfettered deadly force in a new surge, it stands to reason that many arts institutions and fairs are reconsidering whether they should implement...
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Carrie Mae Weems Stuns in “The Shape of Things”
Carrie Mae Weems has consistently pushed the boundaries of art for the last 40 years. Her work is globally recognizable and in her latest exhibit, “The Shape of Things,” a wildly ambitious...
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New Year’s Eve Art Events to Enjoy in New York, Even in Uncertain Circumstances
New Year’s Eve is fast approaching, but with Covid-19 spiking all over the world, plans that may have seemed to be cemented hard and fast are now totally up in the air. That huge apartment party your...
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A Supposed Caravaggio Could Return to Madrid, But Restoration Will Be Delicate
According to new reports, after it was discovered at an auction in the city last year, Madrid will have an opportunity to purchase a work believed to have been made by Caravaggio. In March of 2021,...
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K.O. Nnamdie Is the New Director of Anonymous Gallery
Prolific curator and art advisor K.O. Nnamdie has been on Observer’s radar for a while now — we first took notice of his generosity and welcoming spirit last February, and we’ve since given him a spot...
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OpenSea Is Valued at $13.3 Billion, but Is the Platform Keeping Art Safe?
On Tuesday, the New York Times reported that four years after it was founded, the blockchain and NFT distribution platform OpenSea has been valued at an enormous sum of $13.3 billion; this designation...
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Protestors Who Ripped Down the Edward Colston Statue Won’t Be Charged
It was one of the most visually striking incidents to take place during the height of the George Floyd protests in the summer of 2020: a teeming crowd of demonstrators in Bristol, England ripped a...
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Kazakhstan Protestors Have Torn Down a Monument to a Loathed Former President
Anti-authoritarian protestors in Kazakhstan raided and set fire to the mayor’s office in Almaty, the country’s largest metropolis and former capital, this week. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s...
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