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Younger Galleries Stole the Show at London’s Frieze Fairs
Frieze installed itself in its usual spot in London’s Regent’s Park for a rather muted 20th-anniversary celebration. There were no fireworks—the birthday was announced rather quietly under the sign at...
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Israel’s Tel Aviv Museum of Art Has Stripped Its Walls Once Again
In conflicts between nations, irreplaceable art can become a casualty of war. Whether willfully or by chance, museums and cultural institutions suffer the same fate as other infrastructure. The...
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‘Happy Gas’ at Tate Britain Is an Exhibition Built On Feeling, Not Context
There’s an infinity of “stuff”. How to invest any of it with meaning? This is the artist’s driving question in “Sarah Lucas: Happy Gas,” a major survey of her works at Tate Britain in London. Lucas...
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One Fine Show: ‘A Long Arc’ at Atlanta’s High Museum
Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum outside New York City—a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. Photography is one...
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Hauser & Wirth Debuts Its New Space in the French Capital
Having already established locations from Monaco to Menorca, Zurich’s Hauser & Wirth recently inaugurated its latest outpost in Paris’ tony 8th arrondissement, just off the luxury shopping row of...
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One Fine Show: “Speechless” at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno
Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum outside New York City—a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. David Foster...
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Vincent Price’s Least Famous Role: Art Curator for Sears
In 1966, Sears and Roebuck, then America’s most popular retailer, hired the original Master of Menace, Vincent Price, to sell fine art to the public. Price, best known to audiences of the time as the...
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The Newly Reopened NMWA Offers a Museum-Going Experience Powered by Advocacy
After being closed to the public for nearly two years for a $70 million renovation project, the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) has reopened with improved research facilities, enhanced...
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One Fine Show: Robert Frank and Todd Webb at Museum of Fine Arts Houston
Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum outside New York City—a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. Ed Ruscha’s...
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The Frick Collection Is Nearing Its $290M Fundraising Goal for Renovations
More than five years after announcing its renovation plans, the Frick Collection is 83 percent of the way there. The Manhattan-based museum is now entering the public phase of the expansion’s capital...
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Kravets Wehby Gallery Showcases Furong Zhang’s Immigrant Dreams
How does a Chinese tale from more than fifteen centuries ago connect with the experience of a first-generation Asian American migrant in the United States? In “Land of the Peach Blossoms,” now at...
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A New Exhibition at Madrid’s Prado Museum Presents Backwards Paintings
Things are turning around for Madrid’s Prado Museum. In an exhibition opening today (Nov. 7), the art institution is flipping some of its most renowned masterpieces around to showcase their backs. The...
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John Lennon’s Psychedelic Swimming Pool Mosaic Is Heading to Auction
A psychedelic mosaic designed and owned by John Lennon is heading to auction this month. The work, depicting an eyeball surrounded by whimsical designs, was commissioned by the late Beatle to adorn his...
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Bernard Arnault’s LVMH Gives the Louvre a $16M Boost to Acquire a Chardin...
For over a year, the Louvre has fought to acquire an 18th-century painting by Jean Siméon Chardin for its national collection. Now, the museum is receiving help in the form of 15 million euros ($16...
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One Fine Show: Early Italian Renaissance Bronze at Detroit Institute of Arts
Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum outside New York City—a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. Many people have...
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Tate Modern Reveals Philip Guston’s Hoodwink
In October of 1970, the painter Philip Guston debuted a new show of figurative artworks at the Marlborough Gallery in New York. The exhibition has since lived on in infamy. The Canadian-American artist...
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Jill Bokor On Art, Design Fairgoers and What Not to Miss at Salon
The Salon Art + Design fair opens at the Park Avenue Armory today (Nov. 10), marking the event’s 12th edition, which boasts fifty exhibitors and twelve special design exhibitions for a total of...
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Avery Singer’s Unsettling Free Fall
September 11 continues to haunt our collective consciousness. Last month, when Hamas militants launched a lethal incursion into Israel, the 2001 terrorist attack was conjured up by countless...
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DC’s National Gallery Acquires Its First Haitian Artworks Through Two Major...
More than a dozen new pieces are entering the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., in what represents the institution’s first acquisition of work by Haitian artists....
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Ed Tang and Jonathan Cheung On Chinese Collectors and Staging Shows in...
Last week was the year’s biggest in the Shanghai art scene, with the opening of the West Bund and Art021 fairs and all their attendant satellite shows. Of these, one of the most ambitious was that...
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