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Christa Terry

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Our Favorite Looks From the Inaugural Le Grand Dîner du Louvre

Our Favorite Looks From the Inaugural Le Grand Dîner du Louvre

A-listers in attendance included Gigi Hadid, Keira Knightley, Naomi Campbell, Taylor Hill and Carla Bruni.

06.03.2025 6

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Christa Terry

Mattress Factory’s Danny Bracken On Eugene Macki’s ‘Reification’

Mattress Factory’s Danny Bracken On Eugene Macki’s ‘Reification’

The museum "is a radical place for artists to try new things for a diverse and engaged audience," he told Observer.

28.02.2025 4

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What Not to Miss at Asia Week New York 2025

What Not to Miss at Asia Week New York 2025

This sprawling, decentralized art event brings together classical and contemporary art from across Asia in auctions, exhibitions and more.

26.02.2025 3

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Zuzanna Stańska’s DailyArt Offers Access to Art Without Ulterior Motives

Zuzanna Stańska’s DailyArt Offers Access to Art Without Ulterior Motives

Zuzanna Stańska is the art historian behind the DailyArt app. Courtesy Apple When Polish art historian Zuzanna Stańska considered what she could do...

24.02.2025 4

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Art from the Riggio Collection Will Go On the Auction Block This Spring

Art from the Riggio Collection Will Go On the Auction Block This Spring

René Magritte, L’empire des lumières, 1949. CHRISTIE’S IMAGES LTD. 2025 An “anthology of 20th-century masterpieces” is coming to...

21.02.2025 2

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Observer’s 2025 March Art Fair Calendar

Observer’s 2025 March Art Fair Calendar

Here's everything that's happening on the art fair circuit this month.

20.02.2025 5

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Na Kim’s Hauntingly Luminous Portraits Are a Study in Subjectivity

We asked the artist about her practice, the power of repetition and how best to approach her quietly mesmerizing work.

12.02.2025 4

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Christie’s Is Holding the First Ever Dedicated A.I. Art Sale at a Major Auction House

Among the artists with works in the Christie’s A.I. sale are recent TIME100 A.I. Impact Award recipient Refik Anadol, early A.I. art pioneer Harold...

08.02.2025 7

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Ahead of Its Inaugural Edition, Santa Monica Post Office Has Become Post-Fair

Freshly rebranded in a surprise eleventh-hour pivot, gallerist Chris Sharp's new art fair will open as planned.

07.02.2025 2

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This Stradivarius Could Become the Most Expensive Instrument Ever Sold at Auction

Crafted in 1714, the violin is expected to sell for between $12 million and $18 million in a single-lot auction that’s part of Sotheby's 2025 Old...

06.02.2025 6

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At the Heckscher Museum of Art, Emma Stebbins Beyond Bethesda Fountain

If you’re not familiar with this artist's name, there’s a good chance you’re passingly familiar with her most famous work, 'Angel of the Waters.'

30.01.2025 6

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‘Elimar,’ Van Gogh’s Translations and the Persistent Myth of the Multi-Million-Dollar Garage Sale Find

'Elimar' could turn out to be a real masterpiece, but there’s no getting around the fact that in addition to not being particularly Van Gogh-ish,...

29.01.2025 6

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Art World Comings and Goings: The Andy Warhol Museum’s New Director and More

The only constant in the art world is change.

23.01.2025 3

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Avant-Garde Filmmaker David Lynch Leaves Behind a Dual Legacy

Lynch was a painter and sometimes sculptor represented, beginning in 2022, by Pace.

18.01.2025 3

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Rare Medical Books From the Collection of Eugene S. Flamm Are Coming to Christie’s

“If all books are institutionalized, we will annihilate the spirit and importance of the collector.” 

11.01.2025 3

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When Human Creativity Meets Technical Autonomy: An Interview With Artist Anna Ridler

Observer caught up with the artist to learn more about her explorations into how input data impacts aesthetic outcomes.

09.01.2025 6

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Observer’s Guide to This Year’s Must-Visit January Art Fairs

Spain’s Blanco Mora Gallery at Este Arte 2024. Photo by Santiago MAZZAROVICH / AFP) (Photo by SANTIAGO MAZZAROVICH/AFP via Getty Images In less...

31.12.2024 3

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Closing Soon: ‘The Art of Dining, Food Culture in the Islamic World’ at the Detroit Institute of Arts

Madhava Khurd and Jamshid Chela, Babur Enjoying a Meal at the South Madrasa in 1506 (detail view), from a Manuscript of the Baburnama, ca. 1590–93;...

13.12.2024 5

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The Best Holiday Gifts for the Art Lovers and Artists On Your List

Shop all the best presents for the art lover in your life.

03.12.2024 6

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Building Exhibitions Around Shared Ideas: An Interview With Curator Laura Allen

Institutions around the United States have, in recent years, grappled with questions about how to display Indigenous art and artifacts respectfully...

23.11.2024 5

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48 Hours of Art in Bermuda: Two Art Talks, Multiple Museums and Painting in a Cave

Bermuda is not what you think it is. But first, let’s clear up where it is. For all its postcard-perfect pink sand beaches, palm trees and...

19.11.2024 5

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Art Collector Spotlight: Flag Luxury Group Co-founder Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos

I’m looking into real estate developer and art collector Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos after attending her Business of Art Women’s Power Breakfast at...

12.11.2024 4

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Curator Greg Pierce On How the Museum of Sex’s Warhol Show Came to Be

Andy Warhol’s obsession with celebrity was one of the defining aspects of his career, and analyses of that career, not to mention of his life,...

28.10.2024 4

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For Nicola Vassell, Art Market Success Is Rooted in Character

Many publications, including this one, have told the story of gallerist and curator Nicola Vassell’s career arc, but here’s a tl;dr version: She...

24.10.2024 4

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Observer’s Guide to This Year’s Must-Visit November Art Fairs

This year’s November art fair calendar is relatively unbusy—relative because the downtime art world insiders used to enjoy has been largely eaten...

24.10.2024 5

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These Are the World’s Most Haunted Paintings

Stories of haunted paintings have circulated for centuries, and we love these tales because they suggest that the creative process can conjure...

16.10.2024 4

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Painter Luke Agada Is Pushing the Boundaries of Representation

Since earning an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago last year, painter Luke Agada’s career has taken off....

08.10.2024 6

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Gillian Varney On the Lumen Prize and Its Relevance After Thirteen Years

In six days, Sotheby’s will open bidding for lots in an auction led by a work painted by a robot. Specifically Artefact 26, a fracas of eddying...

04.10.2024 5

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Kendra Walker’s Big Audacious Dream, Three Years In

Atlanta Art Week kicks off today (Sept. 30), once again shining a spotlight on the work of art advisor Kendra Walker. She’s young, but she was...

30.09.2024 4

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Art Collector Spotlight: Margo and Jordan Castro

Doodles co-founder Jordan Castro and his wife, artist Margo Castro, relocated to Dubai from Miami this year and it wasn’t long before their Dubai...

26.09.2024 4

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Observer’s Guide to This Year’s Must-Visit October Art Fairs

Today Observer’s arts team learned that October is “National Arts & Humanities Month.” Apparently, the associated campaign launched thirty years...

25.09.2024 4

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The Art Collectors Behind Christie’s ‘Exceptional Impressions’ Sale

On October 23, Christie’s will offer up works from one of the largest and most diverse collections of prints ever amassed in the United States....

17.09.2024 4

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Asia Week New York Is Back for Autumn With a Smaller Program of Exhibitions and Auctions

New York’s September art fair calendar, bookended as it is by Armory Week and the local edition of Affordable Art Fair, can have an overshadowing...

13.09.2024 10

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Fitzhugh Karol and the Material Vernacular

The most immediately recognizable of Brooklyn-based sculptor Fitzhugh Karol’s works might be his colorful large-scale industrial steel sculptures...

12.09.2024 2

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A-List Agent Rich Paul Is Behind Sotheby’s Latest Contemporary Curated Sale

A month ago in Munich, superstar singer Adele confirmed she was engaged to longtime boyfriend Rich Paul, introducing an entirely new audience to the...

11.09.2024 3

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Observer’s Guide to This Year’s Must-Visit September Art Fairs

Industry elders will remember when summer truly was the slow season in the art world: a time for mounting group shows featuring interesting works...

27.08.2024 3

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A $35 Million Monet Will Lead the First Sale at Christie’s New Hong Kong Headquarters

Claude Monet’s Nymphéas (1897–99) is set to headline the inaugural sale at Christie’s new Zaha Hadid-designed Hong Kong headquarters on...

23.08.2024 3

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Artsy President Dustyn Kim On Evolving Alongside the Company

In 2017, Observer posed this question: As the online art auction space shrinks, is Artsy the heir apparent? In the years since, the art world has...

20.08.2024 9

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These are the Banksy Animals in London Still On View

World-famous but still-anonymous street artist Banksy was recently active in London, applying more of their signature stencils to walls, windows...

15.08.2024 3

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Artist b. Robert Moore On Blurring the Lines Between the Personal and the Political in Art

Multidisciplinary artist b. Robert Moore drew as a child but didn’t start painting seriously until 2017, as a way to facilitate healing after...

15.08.2024 8

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48 Hours of Art in Denver: One Festival, Two Museums, Five Galleries and Too Much Coffee

Ask locals where to see the best art in Denver and more than a few will point you toward the famously angular Denver Art Museum. Multiple Uber...

13.08.2024 3

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Observer’s Guide to This Year’s Must-Visit August Art Fairs

Are you ready to be both shocked and dismayed? I’m here to tell you that summer is already half over. August in the art world can feel like a long,...

02.08.2024 10

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Palmer Museum of Art Director Erin M. Coe On the Institution’s Recent Expansion

In June, the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State debuted a new building designed by Allied Works and landscape architect Reed Hilderbrand, who...

31.07.2024 2

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Could The Andy Warhol Museum’s Pop District Offer a Blueprint for Museum Recovery?

Museums around the world are working hard to find ways to overcome challenges related to audience growth and engagement, and the strategies they’re...

26.07.2024 1

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High Museum of Art Director Rand Suffolk Is Creating New Models of Audience Engagement

High Museum of Art director Rand Suffolk has a well-earned reputation for his commitment to collaborative community engagement and more equitable...

23.07.2024 2

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Art Collector Spotlight: StudioTwentySeven Directors Nacho Polo and Robert Onuska

“Our gallery has become an extension of our home,” STUDIOTWENTYSEVEN co-directors Nacho Polo and Robert Onuska tell Observer. Partners in both...

17.07.2024 2

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Midsummer Magic at Parrish Art Museum: Dinner, Dancing and the Sagaponack Sculpture Field Donation

Parrish Art Museum’s two-day Midsummer Dance and Dinner is a major highlight of the summer season for the cultural set. Benefit it may be—and...

16.07.2024 1

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Bonhams Is Celebrating the Dog Days of Summer

International Dog Day is more than a month away, but Bonhams Scotland has already opened its annual The Dog Sale for online bidding. The auction,...

12.07.2024 2

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