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Tate Modern Announces a New Commission Supporting Experimental Artists
For decades, Tate Modern has hosted art installations by artist-innovators like Louise Bourgeois, Olafur Eliasson and Anish Kapoor as part of its long-standing Turbine Hall commission program. Now, the...
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Sculptor Lorenzo Quinn Has a History of Using Art to Do Good
For a brief period in the 1980s and 1990s, Lorenzo Quinn followed the path chosen by his father, the late Oscar Award-winning actor Anthony Quinn, taking roles in films like Stradivari and Dali. But he...
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Bisa Butler Is Looking Backward, Moving Forward and Never Giving Up
Art star Bisa Butler’s quilted portraits are sublime in scale and concept—life-sized likenesses honoring Black subjects based on black and white photos from around 1850 to the present. Her portraits...
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Jane Dickson Explores the Promises We Keep and the Time We Save
Exiting Karma in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, the street is transformed into one of the noir dreamscapes of Jane Dickson’s paintings. It’s fitting, as the gallery is showing her latest collection, “The...
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Artist Roya Karbakhsh On Capturing Turmoil and Hope
A nude wheat-skinned woman closes her eyes tightly. Her body is tilted forward, and her long blue-gray hair flows like silk into a hand that grips and pulls it down, leaving just a few strands drifting...
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SAAM Rehang Offers a More Expansive Take on American Modern and Contemporary Art
The Smithsonian American Art Museum’s third-floor modern and contemporary galleries are open once again—this time, with a new installation featuring works from its permanent collection, “American...
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The Art of the Nobel Prize
The prestige of winning a Nobel Prize is an award in and of itself, but the recipients receive more than the distinction. The prize consists of a monetary reward, a ‘green gold’ medal plated with 24k...
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Death and Delight: Cecily Brown at the Met
Walking into Cecily Brown’s survey show at the Met is a relief. Not because the paintings are particularly idyllic—they contain skulls, fragmented figures and lurking cats—but because they feel...
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Christie’s Expected to Break Arshile Gorky’s Auction Record With a $20M Sale
In the winter of 1946, a fire broke out in a barn in Sherman, Connecticut. It wasn’t any old barn—the building was being used as a studio by Arshile Gorky, the late Armenian-American artist renowned...
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One Fine Show: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith Curates ‘The Land’ With Precision
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. Our greatest director...
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An Artist Is Up for Sale. Is Anyone Buying?
A private jet. Around 1,000 Canadian dollars ($731). And a series of painting lessons. In response to his offer proposing “more or less an identity swap,” these are the offers Darren Bader has received...
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The NFT Renaissance Beyond Digital Collectibles
In the quiet corridors of the Museum of Modern Art, an elderly woman stands mesmerized by the century-old strokes of Van Gogh’s Starry Night, transported to an era long gone. On the second floor...
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Gagosian’s Tetsuya Ishida Show Deconstructs Salaryman Culture and Existential...
During Japan’s “Lost Decade,” a prolonged recession that marked the 1990s, Tetsuya Ishida emerged as an artist. While other Japanese artists embraced the “Kawaii” cuteness movement in response to the...
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Refik Anadol’s ‘Unsupervised’ Is Now Part of MoMA’s Permanent Collection
While the world struggles to gauge the value of NFTs as art, tokenized works are finding their footing in the traditional art scene. Just a week after the Museum of Modern Art debuted its NFT Postcard...
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Andrew Schoelkopf On His Gallery’s Next Chapter
Late last month, Schoelkopf Gallery joined the host of art galleries moving to Tribeca. They opened their new 4,800-square-foot space at 390 Broadway, designed by Markus Dochantschi from studioMDA,...
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On View Now: Two Shows on Domesticity and the Housing Crisis
In a pandemic era, where the meanings of home have come to embody a shifting significance, the housing crisis continues to exclude and marginalize many. This directs to a timeliness in redefining our...
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One Fine Show: Allan Sekula’s ‘Fish Story’ at the Walker
On March 28, 2021, the 224,000-ton container ship Ever Given ran aground in the Suez Canal and cut off traffic in the shipping corridor for several days. The crisis soon became international news, as...
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Showcasing Female Perspectives in Bolivian Contemporary Art
A wall of colorful and lushly textured vaginas greets visitors as they walk into a modern house on 14th Street in Calacoto, an upper-class residential neighborhood in La Paz, Bolivia. Three are...
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Highlights from London’s 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair
In the hullaballoo of London’s Frieze Week, the slick and rather discreet 1-54 contemporary African art fair can slip by unnoticed. Smartly tagging onto the much larger fair without quite stepping out...
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Pre-Game Paris+ par Art Basel with a Visit to the Jardin des Tuileries
On October 20, the second edition of Paris+ par Art Basel will open to the public with artworks exhibited by 154 galleries from 34 countries and territories in the Grand Palais Éphémère and the Champ...
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