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Elisa CarolloObserver |
This year’s strongest Art Basel-adjacent shows are asking big questions about our future, with artists using digital worlds, living systems,...
Avant Arte’s “A Changing of the Guard” report and Georgina Adam’s new book make the case that younger audiences are not consuming culture only...
This year’s London Gallery Weekend reaffirmed the centrality of London's art scene, even as it exposed a persistent lack of coordination between the...
Recent closures and market contractions couldn't dull a weekend that stretched from Cork Street to the East End
Titled "Liberation Space," Goen Choi and Hyeree Ro's shared Venice Biennale presentation considers nationhood as a continuous act of deconstruction,...
Driven by Hermès devotees, archival Chanel aficionados and a renewed appetite for early-2000s fashion, the handbag market has become one of the...
In the remains of the Basilica Ulpia near Trajan’s Column, the city's imperial past meets its cultural present.
The founder and director of La Finca Collection Strategies believes that the next great art-market opportunity lies in knowing how, when and where to...
The artist's magmatic laquer works slow the viewer down by inviting them to investigate, appreciate and understand the temporal process each work...
Frozen in the moment of becoming, the artist's new bronzes and newspaper works ask what it means to hold an entire civilization in a single object.
The artist has transformed the gallery into an immersive, stage-like realm where quilts, classical art's fragments, African masks, sequins and...
The gallery will balance its Old Master and modern legacy with a contemporary program shaped by Michele.
What began as a collective response to the pandemic has become one of the art calendar's most purpose-driven events.
Art has become one of luxury's strongest competitive tools.
Taylor’s collecting practice is highly instinctive but not reckless, shaped by both immediate resonance and careful looking.
Its programming and public engagement initiatives extend beyond the galleries onto a 134-acre campus featuring over five miles of art-filled trails...
"This is really the sense of what a gallerist is, rather than an art dealer: you put together shows, you put together catalogs, you actually...
"Absurdity allows us to see things differently. If we look at the same chair every day, eventually we stop seeing it. But if we shift perspective and...
In the artist's practice, the distance between jewelry, sculpture, engineering and metaphysics collapses.
Rejecting the concept of “collectible design,” Benda, alongside Barry Friedman, built a global, intergenerational program that treats design as a...
With her 16,000-work collection, she's helping write Indian art’s next chapter.
The artist's latest exhibition constructs a desolate, cinematic landscape in which the American Dream dissolves into illusion, only to reemerge via...
Following the suggested exhibition path is disorienting—the survey is deeply integrated into the collection, yet lacks a clear logic, turning the...
"It's an exciting start to the week at our new flagship, and we look forward to carrying this energy through the remainder of our sales," Ralph...
The auction house closed the sale with a 98 percent sell-through rate and strong results for fresh-to-market works from the Barbier-Müller, Donati...
Achieving more than double last year’s total, the white-glove Modern & Contemporary Art Evening Sale was led by standout works by Warhol, Monet and...
At the Park Avenue Armory, art history was written and recontextualized in real time.
The night closed with a 97 percent sell-through rate, as deep bidding, prearranged guarantees and irrevocable bids kept the rhythm going over a...
Among the notable faces in the crowd were painter Kylie Manning, famed private chef Keegan McManus, bitforms founder Steve Sacks, actress Lux Pascal,...
These fairs, with their smaller scales, make space for emerging artists whose practices move between myth, technology, diaspora, infrastructure and...
Dealers are optimistic that the next few days will bring more conversations and sales as fair-hopping buyers make their way to Pier 36.
The total fell neatly within the top end of the presale estimate of $325.6-444.6 million.
Across evening sales at Christie’s and Sotheby’s, the appearance of a tightly curated group of major works—from Pollock’s monumental drip...
During a crowded week of fairs, NADA’s strongest booths found momentum in intimate scale, accessible pricing and dedicated presentations of...
Perhaps due to the convergence of multiple biennials and general market recalibration, buyers this year seem more attuned to artists with...
The move marks a personal shift from collecting as stewardship to collecting as civic support, with the sale of major works by Joan Mitchell, Kenneth...
The fair's third and final edition opened at the Estonian House with intimate and beautifully idiosyncratic displays of mythic objects, speculative...
More and more, the real competition between major auction houses involves securing single-owner consignments before strategically structuring the...
He remains convinced of the unique, imaginative and generative power of painting, which he believes no new technology will ever replace.
As the city embarks once again upon its springtime marathon of fairs and marquee auctions, galleries across Chelsea, Tribeca, the Lower East Side and...
Again and again, the works return to what is ancient, universal and enduring: symbols, cosmologies and archetypes that precede cultural, national and...
Amid protests, geopolitical tensions and the contradictions of the Biennale’s own structure, the most compelling pavilions leaned into ancestral...
Artist Jon Cuyson’s installation reimagines the ocean not as distance or danger but as a sentient entity that connects communities and sustains...
The organization's exhibitions are deliberately designed to help observers engage with complex topics like A.I. and quantum physics without prior...
Coming from a still-life tradition, the artist's earlier paintings depicted perfect, flawless objects. In his most recent work, that serene and...
Director Christine Messineo describes a strategy centered on performance, partnerships and emerging voices.
Conceived by deaf artist Daniel Kotowski alongside artist and playwright Bogna Burska around the notion of "Deaf Gain," this Venice Biennale...
The Lévy Gorvy Dayan collaborators are venturing together into "the dark side" of private transactions.
Bringing her practice to Venice is not about adapting it to the contemporary world, but about allowing it to have an impact beyond its immediate...
MoMA PS1’s quinquennial captures a city shaped by constraint, where artists adapt and endure but rarely imagine what comes next.