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The Morgan Library & Museum Celebrates 100 Years of History, Literature and Art
The legacy of American financier John Pierpont Morgan is everywhere in New York. In addition to the pivotal and ruthless role he played on Wall Street, which included heading the firm that would become...
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Newly Appointed British Museum Trustee Tracey Emin Is Making History
Tracey Emin, the English confessional artist renowned for her unapologetically autobiographical installations, prints and neon signs, is the newest trustee at the British Museum. While Emin’s work has...
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Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley On Video Games, Empathy and the Role of...
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley puts a lot of effort into installations with the expectation that audiences will put in just as much or even more. The artist, who prefers not to use pronouns, creates works...
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One Fine Show: ‘Pacita Abad’ at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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. There is a term in...
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Museum Director Aaron De Groft Opens Up About Countersuing Orlando Museum of Art
The museum director at the heart of an ongoing saga involving Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings of disputed authenticity is now attempting to clear his name. Aaron De Groft, former head of the Orlando...
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Celebrating Native American Photography’s Sovereign Gaze
If you’ve first encountered Native American images in 19th-century archives portraying Natives as exotic subjects, you’re sadly not alone. The Minneapolis Institute of Art redresses this historical...
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Tracey Emin On Storytelling, Longevity and Building Her Legacy
Tracey Emin is a bit of a bad girl in the art world. Her confessional artwork feels like a soundtrack to the 1990s; parts Courtney Love, Fiona Apple, Sarah MacLachlan and maybe even snippets of Zadie...
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One Fine Show: ‘Degas and the Laundress’ at Cleveland Museum of Art
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. You don’t need me...
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These Are the ‘Picasso Celebration 1973-2023’ Shows Still On View
This past April marked the 50th anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s passing at the age of 91. To honor his lasting impact on art, museums and other institutions around the world hosted more than 50...
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“Lineages” at the Met Explores Present-Day Korean Culture by Tapping into the...
Korean art is surprisingly hard to find in New York City. That’s why “Lineages: Korean Art at the Met,” which runs through October 20 of next year, is such an important group show to see. Beyond the...
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On View Now: Women Making Their Mark
Art collector Komal Shah’s first acquisition of Rina Banerjee’s work on paper, It Rained so she Rained (2009), marked the start of a collecting journey firmly rooted in championing women artists. The...
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After Decades of Speculation, Has Banksy Finally Revealed His True Identity?
A Welsh politician. A children’s television presenter. And a co-founder of Gorillaz. These are just some of the identities that Banksy, the anonymous street artist known for distinctive stencils and a...
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Unconventional Depictions of Fashion and Beauty Define Deborah Turbeville’s...
Though her name remains relatively under the radar compared to peers like Helmut Newton and Guy Burdin, Deborah Turbeville and her body of work left a permanent impression on the photography world....
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Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz Are Bringing Their Art Collection to the Brooklyn...
Singer Alicia Keys and hip-hop producer Swizz Beatz aren’t only a power couple in the world of music. Over the past two decades, the duo has amassed a diverse array of more than 1,000 works of art...
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Maria Prymachenko’s Show at The Ukrainian Museum Rekindles the Potency of...
Folk art stirs a feeling of ancestral intimacy. It asks us to both imagine and remember. We’re reminded of this injunction as we step into The Ukrainian Museum where more than 100 works by iconic folk...
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Sukanya Rajaratnam On Curating for Younger Collectors and More
It’s fair to say that White Cube has landed in New York with a splash. The London-based mega-gallery boasts locations in Paris, Hong Kong, West Palm Beach and Seoul, and it opened its doors here last...
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Experiencing the Intimate Distance of Ofelia Rodríguez
It might initially seem quite a strange pairing. Ofelia Rodríguez’s work, so steeped in Colombian culture, is a far cry from Bristol’s quaint Englishness. But a quiet unity is achieved by “Talking in...
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Royal Velázquez Portrait Expected to Shatter Auction Records
A portrait of a Spanish queen painted by Diego Velázquez, the 17th-century artist celebrated for his depictions of Spain’s royal family, is expected to shatter his auction record when it goes up for...
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One Fine Show: Color Field Paintings at the NSU Art 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. Artists usually...
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Activism Through Art: Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova On the Legacy of Judy...
Nadya Tolokonnikova puts it plainly when I ask her what Judy Chicago means to her: “Judy is the Godmother of feminist art.” I’m on a Zoom call with Tolokonnikova, the activist who founded the Russian...
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