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One Fine Show: “Brassaï, The Secret Signs of Paris” at Moderna Museet

This is the first major Swedish presentation of the work of the photographer, filmmaker and sculptor less commonly known as Gyula Halász.

24.07.2026 3

Observer

Dan Duray

At the Parrish Art Museum, Tony Bechara’s 60-Year Career Gets Its First Full Reckoning

Executive director Mónica Ramírez-Montagut on what it means to organize a retrospective for a friend.

22.07.2026 7

Observer

Dan Duray

Jay and Ricki Blakesberg On Becoming Stewards of the Grateful Dead’s Visual History

The New York iteration of "An American Beauty: Grateful Dead 1965-1995" opens five months after the death of Bob Weir, which sets a different and...

17.07.2026 4

Observer

Dan Duray

One Fine Show: “Björk, Echolalia” and “James Merry, Metamorphlings” at the National Gallery of Iceland

Experienced together, Merry's first museum retrospective and Björk's immersive sound installations build a universe around grief and transformation.

16.07.2026 5

Observer

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One Fine Show: “Deep Cuts, Block Printing Across Cultures” at LACMA

With everything from Japanese prayer scrolls printed in 764 to a rare 1906 Brücke Manifesto to Alison Saar's woodcuts, the exhibition presents block...

10.07.2026 9

Observer

Dan Duray

Marilyn Minter Reflects On Four Decades of Beauty, Grit and Banishing Shame

Exaggerated commercial aesthetics have always been this artist's most subversive tool.

08.07.2026 4

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One Fine Show: “Pierre Huyghe” at Fondation Beyeler

Huyghe makes art that implies our current moment is a little too stupid to be engaged with, unless through several layers of substances, technology...

08.07.2026 3

Observer

Dan Duray

With the Taipei Biennial Ahead, Cecilia Alemani Reflects On What Makes an Exhibition Feel Alive

The 15th Taipei Biennial, organized by the Taipei Fine Arts Museum and opening in 2027, will be the curator's first exhibition in Asia.

03.07.2026 10

Observer

Dan Duray

Philippe Vergné Arrives at the Bass in Miami Ready to Curate Again

He inherits an institution mid-transformation, with a Johnston Marklee expansion on the way and Art Basel Miami Beach two blocks from his door.

02.07.2026 10

Observer

Dan Duray

One Fine Show: “Sophie Calle, Something Missing?” at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

Across several disparate bodies of work, the artist returns to the same question: what is lost, and what remains, when an image stands in for an...

26.06.2026 10

Observer

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One Fine Show: “Grandma Moses, A Good Day’s Work” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Staged in Washington against the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, it frames a life spanning Lincoln to Kennedy as a parable of...

19.06.2026 10

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Curator Kate Kraczon Arrives at the Montclair Art Museum Ready to Get Radical

With works by Jeffrey Gibson and Wendy Red Star alongside John Singer Sargent and Winslow Homer, the museum's collection has always defied easy...

19.06.2026 10

Observer

Dan Duray

One Fine Show: “Zurbarán” at the National Gallery in London

This artist looked life square in the face, and painted it in all its beauty and viscerality.

11.06.2026 10

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Séamus Kealy On Returning to Ireland, Artist-Centered Institutions and What the RHA Could Become

The Royal Hibernian Academy's new director studied under Jeff Wall, directed the Salzburger Kunstverein for nine years and never stopped painting.

10.06.2026 10

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One Fine Show: “Tracey Emin, A Second Life” at Tate Modern in London

"A Second Life," mostly refers to what art has given her, and it's possible that going through the exhibition, one could come to know her just as well...

05.06.2026 10

Observer

Dan Duray

The Aldrich’s First Decennial Takes Stock of Contemporary Art in Connecticut

With its inaugural 10-year survey, the Ridgefield institution is making the case that the most interesting art in America can sometimes be found off...

04.06.2026 10

Observer

Dan Duray

One Fine Show: “Louise Nevelson, Mrs. N’s Palace” at the Centre Pompidou-Metz

The artist was a pioneer of installation art and is best known for assemblages of debris that appear like monochrome artifacts from the future.

31.05.2026 10

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One Fine Show: “Beyond Mysticism, The Modern Northwest” at the Seattle Art Museum

Decades ago, a single magazine feature shaped the world's perception of Pacific Northwest art; this exhibition offers a long-overdue reassessment.

26.05.2026 10

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One Fine Show: “Paula Rego, Dance Among Thorns” at MUNCH in Oslo

Newly considered thematic links between the Portuguese-British artist and Edvard Munch anchor the Norwegian museum's landmark survey.

25.05.2026 10

Observer

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Five Works That Stole the Show at Frieze New York

Our correspondent's irresponsibly subjective list of the fair's best art.

15.05.2026 10

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Gerhard Richter, Franz Kline and the Art Marian Goodman Never Let Go

"Goodman played such a crucial role in shaping the landscape of contemporary art today, so we felt it was important to present her collection in a way...

14.05.2026 20

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Dan Duray

One Fine Show: “Haegue Yang, Star-Crossed Rendezvous” at LA MOCA

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...

08.05.2026 30

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Dan Duray

De Pont Director Maria Schnyder On Why Financial Independence Is a Museum’s Greatest Asset

The museum operates without structural government subsidy, offering a degree of freedom that Schnyder acknowledges is an increasingly rare asset in...

06.05.2026 20

Observer

Dan Duray

One Fine Show: “Wes Anderson, The Archives” at the Design Museum in London

The archive behind the auteur goes on display in the first major museum show devoted to Anderson's process and visual language.

01.05.2026 20

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Curator Adriana Farietta On Why CONDUCTOR Is the Fair the Art World Needs Right Now

How a new art fair at Brooklyn's Powerhouse Arts is trying to chart a different course.

30.04.2026 30

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In “Trading Beauty,” Valentina Castellani Makes the Case That Markets and Masterpieces Have Always Been Inseparable

Artworks, she argues, have never been made in a vacuum, and so understanding the market is an essential part of understanding the art.

25.04.2026 30

Observer

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One Fine Show: “Lucas Samaras – Sitting, Standing, Walking, Looking” at the Art Institute of Chicago

Samaras found in the Polaroid a tool for self-transformation that no one has ever quite matched.

24.04.2026 20

Observer

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One Fine Show: “Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910-1945” at the Minneapolis Institute of Art

This time period has much to teach us, especially when it comes to the nefarious mingling of art and politics.

22.04.2026 30

Observer

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Jean Cooney Is Back at Creative Time and Ready to Take New Risks

She has built a career around staging impossible projects in improbable places.

20.04.2026 20

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Charles Chemin Has Been Training to Lead Watermill His Whole Life

"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...

18.04.2026 20

Observer

Dan Duray

Kate McNamara Has Ambitious Ideas About What Harvard’s Carpenter Center Can Be

The center's recently appointed director is prioritizing new residencies, expanded exhibitions, publishing collaborations and partnerships with the...

15.04.2026 20

Observer

Dan Duray

One Fine Show: “Bellezza e Bruttezza” at Bozar in Brussels

This exhibition proposes that while beauty and ugliness are both compelling, the former might be best defined by the rejection of the latter.

09.04.2026 30

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One Fine Show: “Ming Smith: Jazz Requiem—Notations in Blue” at the Portland Museum of Art

In Smith's European photographs from the 1970s and '80s, glamour and grittiness are never far apart.

01.04.2026 20

Observer

Dan Duray

Robert Wiesenberger On Thinking Relationally and Brooklyn’s Art World Ambitions

"I don't think it's provincial to look to collect more world-class artists who call Brooklyn home."

27.03.2026 40

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One Fine Show: “Edmonia Lewis, Said in Stone” at the Peabody Essex Museum

The sculptor found her audience with political memorabilia and rose to international fame in her own lifetime

26.03.2026 50

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Curator Dieter Buchhart and Brant Foundation’s Allison Brant Want to Reintroduce You to Keith Haring

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...

20.03.2026 60

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One Fine Show: “Cezanne” at the Fondation Beyeler

In the artist’s world, everything—from apples and oranges to the buttocks of bathers—was worthy of the same obsessive, borderline-theological...

18.03.2026 40

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One Fine Show: Rana Begum’s “Reflection” at the Gallery at Windsor in Florida

Begum's post-minimalism trades the cold certainty of those earlier practitioners for a more delicate and provisional version that is more...

13.03.2026 30

Observer

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Inside Debra Wimpfheimer’s Vision for the Queens Museum

The incoming executive director will oversee the museum’s next phase of development focused on accessibility and deeper engagement with diverse...

11.03.2026 40

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Dan Duray

One Fine Show: “Ann Hamilton, still and moving • the tactile image” at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Using light and texture, she transforms archival museum objects into enigmatic visual presences that feel both ancient and newly discovered.

06.03.2026 30

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Dan Duray

Timo Kappeller’s Superpower Is Merging Institutional Rigor With Commercial Momentum

With experience spanning galleries and non-traditional institutions, he has learned to balance slow-burn artistic development with the speed required...

04.03.2026 30

Observer

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One Fine Show: “Joyce Pensato” at ICA Miami

Few cultural figures have invited as many reinventions as Batman, but he’s never had more personality than when rendered in Pensato’s hand.

28.02.2026 40

Observer

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Gray Art Museum’s Alison Weaver On the Breadth of the University Museum Mandate

Cross-disciplinary collaboration, from the humanities to science and technology, is central to her vision of what a university museum can be.

25.02.2026 30

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One Fine Show: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

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...

20.02.2026 30

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Artist Diana Thater and CMACC’s Cass Fino-Radin On Redbuilding an Archive After Disaster

"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...

18.02.2026 40

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Dan Duray

Francesco Bonami’s Case Against Trend-Chasing in the Museum Business

Under Bonami’s direction, By Art Matters in Hangzhou, China, has embraced a curatorial model that favors instinct, experimentation and intellectual...

14.02.2026 30

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Dan Duray

One Fine Show: “Michael Rakowitz, Proxies for Poets and Palaces” at the Stavanger Art Museum

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...

13.02.2026 40

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One Fine Show: “Nothing Still About Still Lifes” at the Deji Art Museum

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...

07.02.2026 20

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Dan Duray

Oscar Murillo Reflects On Building a Body of Work That Resists Linear Time

The artist frames his practice as a form of sedimentation, where ideas, marks and social encounters coexist across different temporal speeds.

05.02.2026 30

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One Fine Show: “The Lost World, The Art of Minnie Evans” at the High

In Atlanta, the artist’s hallucinatory compositions challenge the boundaries of so-called folk art with their depth and technical complexity.

30.01.2026 30

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