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What Zero 10 Can Tell Us About the Art World’s Next Chapter

What Zero 10 Can Tell Us About the Art World’s Next Chapter

The digital section artists arrived at Art Basel with their legitimacy already established through peer-to-peer platforms, tools and communities...

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Elisa Carollo

Sotheby’s Closes Its Inaugural Abu Dhabi Collectors’ Week With $133 Million in Sales

Sotheby’s Closes Its Inaugural Abu Dhabi Collectors’ Week With $133 Million in Sales

The strategic debut was tailored to a region where luxury demand is accelerating at exceptional speed.

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What Hauser & Wirth’s Palermo Move Reveals About Cultural Branding in Art and Luxury

What Hauser & Wirth’s Palermo Move Reveals About Cultural Branding in Art and Luxury

Brand equity is increasingly dependent on cultural production and narrative-led experiences, with storytelling rooted in shared culture, creativity...

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Otani Workshop’s Invitation to Revisit the Unfiltered Imagination of Early Life

Otani Workshop’s Invitation to Revisit the Unfiltered Imagination of Early Life

"Art that reflects this world is complex," the artist tells Observer. "But there are moments that feel as simple as the play I experienced in...

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Es Devlin’s ‘Library of Us’ Was the Rare Miami Art Week Spectacle That Invited Quiet Contemplation

Es Devlin’s ‘Library of Us’ Was the Rare Miami Art Week Spectacle That Invited Quiet Contemplation

The installation, the artist told Observer, is about “seeing through the eyes of others,” with 2,500 authors each offering a distinct vantage...

09.12.2025 3

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In New York, Sotheby’s Repositions Itself as a Cultural Destination

In New York, Sotheby’s Repositions Itself as a Cultural Destination

“Icons: Back to Madison” is bringing together some of the most widely celebrated works the auction house has sold over the years in a...

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How Jorge Pardo Turns Light, Color and Form into a Phenomenology of Seeing

How Jorge Pardo Turns Light, Color and Form into a Phenomenology of Seeing

Known for his immersive environments and otherworldly lamps, the artist's latest show at Petzel Gallery invites viewers to experience new modes of...

08.12.2025 1

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Art Basel Miami Beach Opens Strong as Market Confidence Meets Curatorial Risk

Art Basel Miami Beach Opens Strong as Market Confidence Meets Curatorial Risk

If there’s a common thread running through this year’s presentations, it’s the introspective tone of works that grapple with the push and pull...

05.12.2025 3

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Don’t Miss These Five Museum-Grade Works in Art Basel Miami Beach’s Meridians Sector

Don’t Miss These Five Museum-Grade Works in Art Basel Miami Beach’s Meridians Sector

From Soto’s rare 'Pénétrable' to Anne Samat’s towering woven deities, the artworks in the fair’s most ambitious sector offer meditations on an...

04.12.2025 6

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In Miami, NADA and Untitled Art Test the Temperature of the Mid-Tier and Emerging Markets

In Miami, NADA and Untitled Art Test the Temperature of the Mid-Tier and Emerging Markets

The long-running ping-pong between the two fairs continues this year with vibrant energy and steady sales that are strong enough to suggest the young...

04.12.2025 3

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Wendi Norris Bet On Women Surrealists—Now the Market Has Caught Up

Wendi Norris Bet On Women Surrealists—Now the Market Has Caught Up

"Depth is what connects people, and the artists I work with have that depth," the dealer tells Observer.

03.12.2025 4

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How Simões de Assis Built a Global Platform for Brazilian Art

How Simões de Assis Built a Global Platform for Brazilian Art

"It’s a family business, and we’re proud that the second generation has been able to improve things while still being supported by the first,"...

02.12.2025 3

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The REEFLINE Project Turns Public Art into Ecological Infrastructure

The REEFLINE Project Turns Public Art into Ecological Infrastructure

“Here, art isn’t just raising awareness; it is a solution," entrepreneur Ximena Caminos told Observer.

02.12.2025 7

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Observer’s Must-See Miami Art Week Exhibitions

Observer’s Must-See Miami Art Week Exhibitions

From speculative A.I. dreamscapes to mythic gardens, geological ceramics and queer maximalism, these are the shows not to miss when you're in town for...

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The $10 Million Hermès Problem: Estate Planning When Luxury Collectibles Outpace the Art Market

The $10 Million Hermès Problem: Estate Planning When Luxury Collectibles Outpace the Art Market

From a $10 million Birkin to a $2.9 million Macallan, luxury collectibles are transforming the collectibles market and estate and tax planning.

28.11.2025 4

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Manar Abu Dhabi Illuminates a Growing Ecosystem of Creativity and Public Engagement

Manar Abu Dhabi Illuminates a Growing Ecosystem of Creativity and Public Engagement

The sweeping open-air exhibition stretches from Al Ain’s 400-year-old fort to the mangrove islands of Jubail, recasting the U.A.E.’s cultural...

27.11.2025 5

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A Thanksgiving Weekend Art Escape: 3 Must-See Exhibitions in Philadelphia

A Thanksgiving Weekend Art Escape: 3 Must-See Exhibitions in Philadelphia

Don't miss these exhibitions showcasing Surrealism’s dream logic, Henri Rousseau’s modern imagination and Alexander Calder’s poetic fusion of...

26.11.2025 5

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Alma Allen’s Pavilion Appointment Exposes the Murky Politics Behind Venice 2026

Alma Allen’s Pavilion Appointment Exposes the Murky Politics Behind Venice 2026

For months, the art world waited to see who would pass the "Trump test" to represent the U.S. at the next Venice Biennale.

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Meet the Collector: Ronald Harrar On Redefining Rules and Roles in a More Fluid Art World

Meet the Collector: Ronald Harrar On Redefining Rules and Roles in a More Fluid Art World

For the Venezuela-born, New York–based collector, acquiring art has never been a passive act.

25.11.2025 5

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Utamaro’s ‘Fukagawa in Snow’ Led Sotheby’s HK$688M Sale of Works from the Okada Museum of Art

Utamaro’s ‘Fukagawa in Snow’ Led Sotheby’s HK$688M Sale of Works from the Okada Museum of Art

The museum, founded in 2013 by billionaire Kazuo Okada, was compelled to sell the trove of masterworks to settle a $50 million legal bill owed by the...

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Tomasz Kowalski Digs Into the Psychic Archeology of Light in Paris

Tomasz Kowalski Digs Into the Psychic Archeology of Light in Paris

"My approach to the figure is a reflection of my perception in general—everything seems to be equivalent within rays of light, perhaps except...

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In Its Best Week Since 2021, Sotheby’s Hit $1.173B With a $54.7M Kahlo Finale

In Its Best Week Since 2021, Sotheby’s Hit $1.173B With a $54.7M Kahlo Finale

Kahlo and Magritte anchored the auction house's Modern session as Surrealist artists delivered record-breaking results.

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NOMAD Abu Dhabi Turns a Decommissioned Airport Terminal into a Destination for Design

NOMAD Abu Dhabi Turns a Decommissioned Airport Terminal into a Destination for Design

The boutique design fair launched by Nicolas Bellavance-Lecompte is positioned to become the region’s only fair dedicated to collectible design.

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A Juvenile Triceratops and Francis Bacon Heat Up Phillips’s $67.3 Million Evening Sale

A Juvenile Triceratops and Francis Bacon Heat Up Phillips’s $67.3 Million Evening Sale

"More than ever, we’re seeing a desire for works that spark curiosity and transcend traditional categories," Miety Heiden, Phillips' chairman for...

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Abu Dhabi Art 2025 Stakes Out Its Vision Ahead of Frieze’s Takeover

Abu Dhabi Art 2025 Stakes Out Its Vision Ahead of Frieze’s Takeover

Rooted in the U.A.E.’s fast-growing artistic landscape, the fair seems eager to expand its international reach before the megafair takes the reins...

20.11.2025 3

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Christie’s Holds Its Nerve Mid-Marathon as the 21st Century Evening Sale Secures a Steady $123.6 Million

Christie’s Holds Its Nerve Mid-Marathon as the 21st Century Evening Sale Secures a Steady $123.6 Million

The auction was led by Christopher Wool’s 'Untitled (RIOT)' at $19,840,000 and sustained by competitive bidding for Olga de Amaral, Firelei Báez,...

20.11.2025 4

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Sotheby’s Shatters Records at Its Breuer Debut as a $236.4M Klimt Leads the $706M Evening Sale

The auction house's debut at the Breuer was defined by Gustav Klimt’s late portrait soaring to $236.4 million, anchoring the $527.5 million...

19.11.2025 3

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Christie’s Opens New York’s Marquee Auctions Week With a $689 Million Haul

In total Christie’s brought in $689 million in a single night, already matching what the auction house generated across all marquee sales during the...

19.11.2025 2

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Adrián Villar Rojas On Time, Decay and the Fragile Afterlife of Art

At Art Sonje in Seoul and elsewhere, he creates environments that transcend human time and cognitive limits, merging entropy, memory and a radically...

19.11.2025 3

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Qatar Set to Open a Freeport Powerhouse Ahead of Art Basel in Doha

The country is showing an early but timely awareness that high-end art fairs thrive when connected to the right logistics ecosystem.

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Don’t Miss: Eva Helene Pade’s Choreography of Color and Desire at Thaddaeus Ropac

Haunting and visceral, her exhibition "Søgelys" unfolds into a living stage where bodies, color and psyche collide.

17.11.2025 5

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The Top Collections (and Their Top Lots) Headlining the $1.6 Billion November Sales

The marquee sales in New York are among the most anticipated events on the global art calendar and the final litmus test of the market's health after...

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Jo Fish Confronts the Tension Between Flesh and Data in a World of Visual Saturation

"I’m passionate about art history, but I also want to think about how painting can evolve," she told Observer.

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Five Groundbreaking Postwar Women Artists Lead New York’s Fall Art Season

As the art world makes long-overdue progress toward gender parity, the market for work by women artists has been steadily rising.

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Kader Attia’s Poetics of Repair in “Shattering and Gathering our Traces”

His practice is an epistemological and ontological exercise that navigates the material presences that accompany the reality of earthly experience and...

13.11.2025 4

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Meet the Collector: Raphaël Isvy Wants to Rewrite the Rules of Buying and Selling Art

“When collectors reinject liquidity into the market, it benefits everyone," he tells Observer. "Instead of shaming people for selling, galleries...

12.11.2025 4

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Onassis ONX Celebrates Five Years of Bridging Art and Technology With a New Space

The new Tribeca location will serve as a hybrid residency, research lab and production studio, with expanded space for exhibitions and public programs...

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A Look Inside the New Studio Museum in Harlem Ahead of Its Reopening

After eight years of renovation and anticipation, the museum reopens this weekend with a two-day public celebration; ahead of the long-awaited debut,...

11.11.2025 2

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Redefining Immersive Media Art Beyond the Screen

"My hope is to use technology not as a distraction but as an invitation, bringing audiences back into direct relationship with their surroundings and...

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Chiharu Shiota Weaves Historical Memory, Body and Belonging in “Two Home Countries”

"I don’t have to decide which country I belong to, I can be both," the artist says. "I believe we can have multiple home countries; this is my...

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Rember Yahuarcani On Wielding Paint as a Tool of Cultural Preservation and Resistance

Drawing on ancestral memory, sacred plant knowledge, jungle sounds and mythology, his work preserves Indigenous wisdom while translating it through...

10.11.2025 3

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Meet the Collectors: Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu Share the Passion and Vision Behind Magazzino Italian Art

"It wasn’t just about acquiring, it was about learning. Otherwise, what’s the point?" Olnick tells Observer.

08.11.2025 2

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At Salon Art + Design 2025, Innovation, Form and Function Meet Market Enthusiasm

The 14th edition of the hybrid fair unfolded with a rare sense of cohesion and restraint, with many exhibitors adopting a thoughtfully curatorial...

08.11.2025 3

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Cooperation Between Galleries and Across Industries Is Art Collaboration Kyoto’s Blueprint for the Future of the Art Fair

“It’s time for the art world to intercept funding from corporations, who can be today’s patrons,” explains ACK director Yukako Yamashita.

07.11.2025 10

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Art Basel Launches Zero 10, a New Platform for Digital Art in the Era of Next Gen Collecting

Placing new media art at the center of the fair underscores how digital culture is rewriting the rules of collecting and the marketplace around it.

07.11.2025 4

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Memory, Matter and Minimalism: Inside Dia Art Foundation’s 2025 Fall Night

With heartfelt tributes to Melvin Edwards and Meg Webster, the evening celebrated two visionary practices that embody Dia’s artist-first ethos.

05.11.2025 4

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Collector Yu Kimoto Explains How Japan’s Next Gen Collectors Are Rethinking the Art World

His CLTV Collection captures how younger collectors move fluidly across categories, dissolving boundaries between art, design, fashion and lifestyle.

05.11.2025 4

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An Invitation to Pause: Inside Iceland’s Sequences Festival of Real-Time Art

Last month, an art festival in Reykjavík provided the art world with a much-needed opportunity to slow down and rediscover purpose, commitment and...

04.11.2025 4

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Lu Yang’s Convergence of Technology and Spirituality at the Amant Foundation

“As an individual facing today’s wars and geopolitical complexity—witnessing so much suffering—I often feel powerless and sad; but I refuse to...

03.11.2025 4

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Don’t Miss: Alejandro García Contreras in Dialogue with Bolesław Biegas and Gustave Moreau in Paris

"The World as a Labyrinth" presents the artist's ceramic cosmologies, enigmatic bronze narrative and visionary cosmic paintings.

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