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NASA Is Behind New York’s Newest Immersive Art Show
The creation of stars, the collision of galaxies and the existence of water on faraway planets are just some of the celestial wonders captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. Now, in a new...
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One Fine Show: James Barnor at the Detroit Institute of Arts
Welcome to one fine show, where Observer highlights a recently opened show at a museum outside New York City, a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. The Ghanaian...
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Madsteez and It’s A Living Play in INDUSTRY One’s ‘Sentimientos’
In Portland, Madsteez (Mark Paul Deren) and It’s A Living (Ricardo González) recently joined forces for the kickoff exhibition at INDUSTRY One’s new commission-free gallery. INDUSTRY, the creative...
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Don’t Miss: Wura-Natasha Ogunji’s ‘Cake’ at Fridman Gallery
Wura-Natasha Ogunji’s characters fly in the Fridman Gallery exhibition Cake, a site-specific thread installation that includes over 20 new works ‘drawn’ on architectural tracing paper with ink and...
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Victoria Miro Showcases Chris Ofili’s Glorious Ambiguity
Upon entering Victoria Miro, where Chris Ofili presents his newest exhibition Seven Deadly Sins, we first see ten A4 etchings of liquid ethereal women and plants that burst with spores on unique...
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Five Things to Do in New York’s Art Scene June 12-16
Welcome to Things to Do, our weekly roundup of happenings in the ever-buzzing New York art scene. Here, we present an expertly curated list of the best goings on that don’t require an invite—but might...
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Six American Artists’ Homes to Visit This Summer
There is something magical, or sometimes shockingly revealing, about the experience of visiting the home of a favorite artist. Such a visit not only provides context into their inspiration but can also...
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What Not to Miss at This Year’s Museum Mile Festival
New York’s biggest block party, the Museum Mile Festival, is back tomorrow (June 13) and no invite is required to attend. Ostensibly, the event’s big draw is the fact that eight of the city’s iconic...
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Going Undercover with Leyendecker at the New York Historical Society
Elegant men of leisure, ivy league athletes and soldiers—all muscular, square-jawed, blonde and blue-eyed—populated print media over a hundred years ago. They are the creation of J.C. Leyendecker,...
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The Met’s Search for Meaning in Van Gogh’s Cypresses
“I need a starry night with cypresses,” Vincent Van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo, an art dealer, in April of 1888—the same year he painted Orchard (in Blossom) Bordered by Cypresses. Two years later,...
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In Living Color: India Mahdavi Reimagines Pierre Bonnard
When a contemporary designer, known as the “virtuoso of color,” meets a legendary painter, celebrated for their vibrant palette, the pairing proves a true visual delight. Such is the case with Bonnard:...
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How NFT Artist Tyler Hobbs Survived the Crypto Crash
An auction of generative non-fungible tokens (NFTs) brought in nearly $11 million yesterday (June 15) at Sotheby’s, signaling a rising market for digital works that combine algorithms and A.I. with...
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One Fine Show: ‘Beyond the Light’ at the Getty Center
Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened show at a museum outside of New York City—a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. At this point we can...
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Art Heists True and False: Lyndon Barrois Jr. at Carnegie Museum of Art
Lyndon Barrois Jr. is writing a movie script, but you’ll never see the film in theaters. The script is a laboratory where Barrois Jr. tests out interactions between two of his interests, art forgery...
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Five Things to Do in New York’s Art Scene June 20-23
Welcome to Things to Do, our weekly roundup of happenings in the ever-buzzing New York art scene. Here, we present an expertly curated list of the best goings on that don’t require an invite—but might...
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Artist Misha Kahn Is Designing His World at Light Speed
Furniture-designer-turned-exhibiting-artist Misha Kahn is a master of subverting traditional forms and fabrics to create an almost childish, fantastical wonderland. To put it another way, he is one of...
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Six Questions with Artist Eunnam Hong
There’s something disquieting about Brooklyn-based artist Eunnam Hong’s paintings. It’s in her subjects’ eyes—or rather, the fact that we never see them. Who are these people, so well-dressed yet so...
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On View Now: Cy Twombly, Alice Neel, Keith Haring and More
Between Art Basel and the spate of openings that coincided with Zurich Art Weekend, Switzerland is the place to be for art lovers and collectors. Have FOMO? There’s still time to visit exhibitions such...
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Sales in Switzerland Indicate a Resilient Art Market
Last week the art world gathered in Basel, Switzerland for its biggest fair, Art Basel. Under new leadership by Noah Horowitz and with new investment by James Murdoch, there’s much to talk about...
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Manet’s ‘Olympia’ Was So Much More Than a Muse
Set to be on view this fall as part of the Met’s upcoming Manet/Degas exhibition, Edouard Manet’s Olympia might just be the most talked about nude of the 19th century. The painting, which hung in the...
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