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One Fine Show: Marguerite Humeau’s “\*sk\*/ey-” at ICA Miami

One Fine Show: Marguerite Humeau’s “\*sk\*/ey-” at ICA Miami

It's a joy to try to decipher what the artist's imagined beasts and beings have to teach us.

07.02.2025 7

Observer

Dan Duray

Museum Director Mario R. Rossero On Andy Warhol, Community Engagement and Arts Education in Uncertain Times

Museum Director Mario R. Rossero On Andy Warhol, Community Engagement and Arts Education in Uncertain Times

"I always say there's not only one Andy Warhol; rather, there is a specific Andy Warhol for each person."

05.02.2025 1

Observer

Dan Duray

One Fine Show: ‘Sigmar Polke, Affinities Revealed’ at the Museo Nacional del Prado

One Fine Show: ‘Sigmar Polke, Affinities Revealed’ at the Museo Nacional del Prado

Polke was a sort of anti-Andy Warhol, looking to inject density back into the world of painting in a world being shaped by technology.

31.01.2025 5

Observer

Dan Duray

Storm King Art Center’s Nora Lawrence On Watching the Open-Air Museum Evolve

Storm King Art Center’s Nora Lawrence On Watching the Open-Air Museum Evolve

Observer caught up with the newly minted executive director to hear about her own ambitions and where Storm King is headed.

29.01.2025 5

Observer

Dan Duray

One Fine Show: ‘Picasso and Paper’ at the Cleveland Museum of Art

One Fine Show: ‘Picasso and Paper’ at the Cleveland Museum of Art

A surprising number of the almost 300 works in the show come from the museum's own impressive collection.

24.01.2025 6

Observer

Dan Duray

How Brooklyn Museum Is Breaking the Mold: An Interview With Director of Curatorial Affairs Catherine Futter

How Brooklyn Museum Is Breaking the Mold: An Interview With Director of Curatorial Affairs Catherine Futter

We caught up with Futter to discuss how the hype around the Brooklyn Museum’s bicentennial might shape its future.

23.01.2025 20

Observer

Dan Duray

How Art Humanizes the Hospital Experience: An Interview With RxART Director Katie Hollander

How Art Humanizes the Hospital Experience: An Interview With RxART Director Katie Hollander

It's estimated that the organization, via partnerships with hospitals and artists, has touched the lives of 1,000,000 patients and their families.

20.01.2025 4

Observer

Dan Duray

One Fine Show: ‘The Living End, Painting and Other Technologies, 1970-2020’ at MCA Chicago

This show implies that painting is not only a thriving medium but also our culture's greatest illusion.

15.01.2025 4

Observer

Dan Duray

One Fine Show: Jeffrey Gibson’s ‘POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT’ at MASS MoCA

The artist's new show does the hard work of trying to make the intimate large-scale and the big questions personal.

10.01.2025 9

Observer

Dan Duray

What’s Coming to BAM in 2025: An Interview With Amy Cassello and Gina Duncan

Observer caught up with the art space's artistic director and president to learn more about what the institution has in store for the coming year.

09.01.2025 8

Observer

Dan Duray

Scientist Dr. Rita Schulz On Mercury’s Newly Christened Asawa Crater

Asawa is the latest artist to lend their name to a planetary feature via the IAU naming committee. Photo by Deanne Fitzmaurice/San Francisco...

02.01.2025 10

Observer

Dan Duray

One Fine Show: ‘Strike Fast, Dance Lightly’ at the Norton Museum of Art

“Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing” is on view at the Norton Museum of Art through March 9, 2025. Courtesy Norton Museum of Art, photo...

02.01.2025 1

Observer

Dan Duray

One Fine Show: ‘Sophie Calle, Overshare’ at Walker Art Center

An installation view of “Sophie Calle: Overshare” at Walker Art Center. Photo by Eric Mueller. Courtesy Walker Art Center Welcome to One Fine Show,...

20.12.2024 5

Observer

Dan Duray

Indigenous Futurism, Place and Kinship: An Interview with Crystal Bridges’ Jordan Poorman Cocker

Jordan Poorman Cocker. Photo: Ryan Redcorn Last month saw the opening of “American Sunrise: Indigenous Art at Crystal Bridges,” which examines the...

18.12.2024 4

Observer

Dan Duray

One Fine Show: ‘Mickalene Thomas, All About Love’ at the Barnes Foundation

Mickalene Thomas, Afro Goddess Looking Forward, 2015; Rhinestones, acrylic, and oil on wood panel. Courtesy of the artist © 2024 Mickalene Thomas...

13.12.2024 9

Observer

Dan Duray

Public Art at the Transamerica Pyramid: An Interview With Art Collector and Developer Michael Shvo

Real estate developer and art collector Michael Shvo. Photo: David Lipman Visitors to Art Basel Miami Beach may have noticed a white construction...

11.12.2024 3

Observer

Dan Duray

Observer’s Top Five Pieces Not to Miss at Art Basel Miami Beach 2024

It’s the most wonderful time of the year—Art Basel Miami Beach time. After a potassium-rich auction season, dealers and collectors are hoping that...

06.12.2024 5

Observer

Dan Duray

Dreaming in Color in Wynwood: An Interview Artist and Muralist Karol Stefanini

It’s awe-inspiring to watch Art Basel Miami Beach take over the entirety of Miami each year, and while most in the art world tend to relegate their...

06.12.2024 3

Observer

Dan Duray

European Masters in the Berkshires: An Interview with the Clark’s Olivier Meslay

One month ago, the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, announced that it had received a major gift worth several hundred million...

27.11.2024 2

Observer

Dan Duray

One Fine Show: ‘Wild Things, The Art of Maurice Sendak’ at Denver Art Museum

Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened show at a museum not in New York City, a place we know and love that already...

27.11.2024 2

Observer

Dan Duray

One Fine Show: ‘William Gropper, Artist of the People’ at The Phillips Collection

Welcome to one fine show, where Observer highlights a recently opened show at a museum outside New York City, a place we know and love that already...

22.11.2024 4

Observer

Dan Duray

Sotheby’s Maruzio David Galperin On the Market for Maurizio Cattelan

It’s auction week in New York City, the twice-annual bonanza when this fair city plays host to the most expensive art auctions in the world. If you...

18.11.2024 3

Observer

Dan Duray

One Fine Show: “Tacita Dean, Blind Folly” at The Menil Collection

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...

15.11.2024 6

Observer

Dan Duray

On Photographer Peter Hujar: An Interview With Gary Schneider

The work of photographer Peter Hujar seems to be everywhere these days. He died at 53 in 1987, but his work still appears in countless bookstores...

13.11.2024 3

Observer

Dan Duray

One Fine Show: ‘Charles Atlas, About Time’ at ICA Boston

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...

06.11.2024 5

Observer

Dan Duray

Edra Soto On Puerto Rican Art, Public Sculpture and Her New NYC Installation ‘Graft’

Last month, the artist Edra Soto debuted Graft, a new installation presented by the Public Art Fund at Central Park’s Doris C. Freedman Plaza....

02.11.2024 4

Observer

Dan Duray

One Fine Show: ‘Andrew Wyeth’s Botanical Imagination’ at the Bruce Museum

Welcome to one fine show, where Observer highlights a recently opened show at a museum outside New York City, a place we know and love that already...

31.10.2024 2

Observer

Dan Duray

Director Thelma Golden On the Future of Programming at the Studio Museum in Harlem

Earlier this month, the Studio Museum in Harlem unveiled more details about its new home on 125th Street, which will open in the fall of 2025. The...

25.10.2024 4

Observer

Dan Duray

One Fine Show: ‘Hokusai, Waves of Inspiration’ at the Nelson-Atkins 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...

23.10.2024 2

Observer

Dan Duray

One Fine Show: ‘Kertész, Capa and the Hungarian American Photographic Legacy’ at the Virginia Museum Fine Arts

Welcome to one fine show, where Observer highlights a recently opened show at a museum outside New York City, a place we know and love that already...

21.10.2024 2

Observer

Dan Duray

One Fine Show: ‘Dalí, Disruption and Devotion’ at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened show at a museum outside New York City, a place we know and love that already...

18.10.2024 2

Observer

Dan Duray

Gallerist Mattia De Luca Believes Morandi Has More to Teach Us

A few weeks ago, Galleria Mattia De Luca opened “Time Suspended II,” an ambitious show of work by Giorgio Morandi that brings together more than...

16.10.2024 2

Observer

Dan Duray

One Fine Show: ‘Consuelo Kanaga, Catch the Spirit’ at SFMOMA

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...

11.10.2024 4

Observer

Dan Duray

NSU Art Museum Director Bonnie Clearwater On the Gift of ‘Surrounded Islands’

Florida is in the throes of one of its more turbulent hurricanes, but as we keep them in our thoughts, let’s put a silver lining to those clouds:...

10.10.2024 2

Observer

Dan Duray

One Fine Show: ‘Begin Again’ at the Philadelphia 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...

04.10.2024 2

Observer

Dan Duray

MoMA’s La Frances Hui On Curating Johnnie To

The Museum of Modern Art is in the process of opening its big fall shows, and among these is a retrospective in the film department of the Hong...

02.10.2024 3

Observer

Dan Duray

One Fine Show: “Scott Burton, Shape Shift” at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation

Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum outside of New York City—a place we know and love that...

27.09.2024 2

Observer

Dan Duray

Biennale Artist Jeffrey Gibson On Spirituality, Ecology in Politics and His Next Chapter

Last week, the artist Jeffrey Gibson launched The Spirits Are Laughing, an eleven-minute animation that draws from his Choctaw and Cherokee...

25.09.2024 4

Observer

Dan Duray

One Fine Show: Nicholas Galanin’s “Exist in the Width of a Knife’s Edge” in Baltimore

Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum outside of New York City—a place we know and love that...

20.09.2024 3

Observer

Dan Duray

Titus Kaphar On His Transition to Filmmaking and the Potency of Erasure

Last week, the artist Titus Kaphar opened “Exhibiting Forgiveness” at Gagosian Beverly Hills, a painting show that pairs with his film of the same...

19.09.2024 4

Observer

Dan Duray

One Fine Show: ‘Multiplicity’ at the Phillips Collection

Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum outside of New York City—a place we know and love that...

14.09.2024 2

Observer

Dan Duray

One Fine Show: “Steve Locke, the fire next time” at MASS MoCA

Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum outside of New York City—a place we know and love that...

13.09.2024 1

Observer

Dan Duray

Curator Sophie Ong Discusses the Genesis of ‘Ethiopia at the Crossroads’ at TMA

The recent rise of interest in Black art has been great for living artists—for some of them, anyway—but this has yet to reflect in a significantly...

11.09.2024 2

Observer

Dan Duray

One Fine Show: ‘Picturing the Border’ at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum outside of New York City—a place we know and love that...

06.09.2024 2

Observer

Dan Duray

How Hirshhorn Museum Director Melissa Chiu Is Amplifying Artists’ Voices

Politics may feel like the main story coming out of Washington, D.C. these days, but the city’s art remains as vibrant as ever. The Hirshhorn...

04.09.2024 1

Observer

Dan Duray

Musée Rodin Director Amélie Simier On Partnering With Shanghai’s Centre d’Art Rodin

Earlier this month the Rodin Museum in Paris announced that it will partner with a soon-to-open Rodin museum in Shanghai. The French museum...

30.08.2024 2

Observer

Dan Duray

Elizabeth Smith and James Thomas Discuss the Latest Frankenthaler Climate Initiative Grantees

Late last month, the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation announced $3.3 million in grants through its Frankenthaler Climate Initiative (FCI), with the...

21.08.2024 2

Observer

Dan Duray

One Fine Show: ‘Art and Social Change in Spain’ at Madrid’s Museo del Prado

Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum outside of New York City—a place we know and love that...

16.08.2024 3

Observer

Dan Duray

Curator Paloma Fernández-Iriondo On the Art of Four Seasons Hotel Madrid

Art is becoming an ever more important element of major real estate developments, and this is especially true in hotels, where visitors want to...

15.08.2024 3

Observer

Dan Duray

One Fine Show: ‘Patterns in Abstraction’ at the High Museum of Art

Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum outside of New York City—a place we know and love that...

09.08.2024 2

Observer

Dan Duray