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The exhibition pairs the artist's direct response to composer Isang Yun's biography with her work inspired by Sol LeWitt, placing two very different...
The museum operates without structural government subsidy, offering a degree of freedom that Schnyder acknowledges is an increasingly rare asset in...
The archive behind the auteur goes on display in the first major museum show devoted to Anderson's process and visual language.
How a new art fair at Brooklyn's Powerhouse Arts is trying to chart a different course.
Artworks, she argues, have never been made in a vacuum, and so understanding the market is an essential part of understanding the art.
Samaras found in the Polaroid a tool for self-transformation that no one has ever quite matched.
This time period has much to teach us, especially when it comes to the nefarious mingling of art and politics.
She has built a career around staging impossible projects in improbable places.
"I feel lucky. To prolong a 42-year-long, almost filial relation and 33 years of work companionship in a form of artistic dialogue beyond death is a...
The center's recently appointed director is prioritizing new residencies, expanded exhibitions, publishing collaborations and partnerships with the...
This exhibition proposes that while beauty and ugliness are both compelling, the former might be best defined by the rejection of the latter.
In Smith's European photographs from the 1970s and '80s, glamour and grittiness are never far apart.
"I don't think it's provincial to look to collect more world-class artists who call Brooklyn home."
The sculptor found her audience with political memorabilia and rose to international fame in her own lifetime
A new exhibition at the Brant Foundation focuses on the three years in which the artist went from graffiti prankster to one of the most consequential...
In the artist’s world, everything—from apples and oranges to the buttocks of bathers—was worthy of the same obsessive, borderline-theological...
Begum's post-minimalism trades the cold certainty of those earlier practitioners for a more delicate and provisional version that is more...
The incoming executive director will oversee the museum’s next phase of development focused on accessibility and deeper engagement with diverse...
Using light and texture, she transforms archival museum objects into enigmatic visual presences that feel both ancient and newly discovered.
With experience spanning galleries and non-traditional institutions, he has learned to balance slow-burn artistic development with the speed required...
Few cultural figures have invited as many reinventions as Batman, but he’s never had more personality than when rendered in Pensato’s hand.
Cross-disciplinary collaboration, from the humanities to science and technology, is central to her vision of what a university museum can be.
Exhibitions of art collections are not meant to be cohesive; this one is a mixtape where each track is strong even if it doesn't flow naturally into...
"Out of over 200 artworks, I’ve identified 55 that need to be located. We’re now working to find those pieces in institutions and private...
Under Bonami’s direction, By Art Matters in Hangzhou, China, has embraced a curatorial model that favors instinct, experimentation and intellectual...
At the center of the exhibition are eight reliefs conceived for the show as part of his ongoing series 'The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist'—his...
The blockbusters on display are incredible and expensive—so much so that walking through the exhibition can feel like going to a really good preview...
The artist frames his practice as a form of sedimentation, where ideas, marks and social encounters coexist across different temporal speeds.
In Atlanta, the artist’s hallucinatory compositions challenge the boundaries of so-called folk art with their depth and technical complexity.
In the Armory’s unique blend of performance spaces, she sees opportunities to embrace friction and fluidity between forms.
This exhibition of contemporary commissions paired with decommissioned memorials proposes new ways of grappling with history and memory in a fractured...
"I’ll know I’ve done my job if the collaboration between the institutions provides a framework for someone else to continue evolving beyond my...
Through the use of little more than folds, Messerschmidt conjured baffled joy, pure anguish, leering sadism and other emotions, working without...
She described long-standing issues—from understaffing to opaque decision-making—that gradually pushed them toward unionization.
The exhibition invites viewers to look past old binaries of muse and master and toward a more reciprocal artistic exchange.
"Portikus offers a rare degree of freedom—to test new ideas, to take risks and to unsettle established formats," she told Observer.
This exhibition offers work drawn from under-shown traditions but offers broad context to visitors who take seriously its advice about stepping...
This exhibition offers a glimpse into her life through the lens of how she chose to look.
The show provides an authoritative introduction to the artist for those unfamiliar with his unique career.
"Our job is to create experiences that make people ask new questions," the curator tells Observer.
The exhibition makes the case that the artist's influence would have been unavoidable regardless of fame or circumstance.
In conversation with Observer, the artist reflects on her first solo museum exhibition in the United States, which she says was shaped by trust, time...
The strongest presentations feel almost allergic to hype, with tightly edited selections that reward close looking.
The exhibition makes the case that this relatively mellow artist should stand shoulder to shoulder with his crazier peers.
The gallery’s “Building a Legacy Program” demonstrates how careful stewardship can pull even underappreciated artists back from the brink of...
This museum is not as unlikely a venue for a show of work by the artist as you might think.
"I have spent most of my career off-center and trying, in a modest way, to de-center the art world," he told Observer. "I want to break down binaries...
Symbolism swept the colder parts of Europe and can be considered a response to Impressionism's fascination with the visible world.
Through paintings, performances and installations, the artist duo bridges personal heritage with broader struggles for equity and recognition.
This new exhibition is somehow the first to examine John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Cy Twombly in the context of...