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Elisa CarolloObserver |
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.
Spanning performance, painting and immersive installation, these collateral shows spotlight artists reckoning with history, technology and myth across...
From representations of the body and questions of visibility to engagements with land, belonging and displacement, the works on view reflect concerns...
She views art through a transformative lens in which light, space and human perception continuously reshape each work.
This exceptional single-owner collection brings to market works by Picasso, Kandinsky, Calder and Tanguy, among others. Many were acquired directly...
Geographically, the strongest growth in this market segment is currently concentrated in the U.S., alongside key markets in China and Japan.
Jackson Pollock’s 'Number 7A' and Constantin Brâncuși’s 'Danaïde,' each with an estimate in the $100 million range, will lead the single-owner,...
"Dancing the Revolution" traces the journey of two genres from the margins of Caribbean working-class life to the center of contemporary art and...
The breadth of the presentations reaffirmed the medium’s relevance across generations and geographies.
As the economics of running a gallery grow more demanding, cooperation is replacing competition as the operating logic for a new generation of...
The Lalanne works alone generated $64.7 million, reshaping expectations for the global design market in the process.
Spanning fashion, film memorabilia and fine art, the series of four sales will paint an intimate portrait of one of Hollywood's most distinctive...
At both miart and Paris Internationale, next-generation talents pushed painting, sculpture and installation art into unstable yet compelling...
"We are still an art fair and sales matter, but we are also trying to build a different kind of connection between galleries and audiences," founder...
"In an industry built on discretion and trust, the gap between how widely A.I. is being used and how little governance surrounds it should concern...
At its 2026 Gala & Art Auction, the Bronx Museum of the Arts celebrated its community-driven legacy while looking ahead to a major renovation, with...
Her latest body of work considers the tension between personal and collective frameworks, particularly as felt in a time of societal fragmentation...
Late in life, he declared, “I’m nothing else but an artist, I’m sure, and delighted to be," but he clearly was so much more.
"We're creating a symbiotic commercial ecosystem, starting with Artsy and Artnet, that creates a new kind of intelligence for the art market."
From Cao Fei at Fondazione Prada to Kiefer at Palazzo Reale, these are the best exhibitions in Milan right now.
In an industry where human expertise and technological efficiency are often seen as opposing forces, Convelio co-founders Eduard Gouin and Clément...
The traditional separation of contemporary art into distinct branches—visual art, design, architecture and digital culture—might still matter, he...
Dealers Matteo Consonni and Dawid Radziszewski have officially joined forces to create an ambitious new gallery built for the next phase of the...
A generational shift among dealers is putting headline-grabbing museum-grade works into circulation, as legacy planning begins to impact the market's...
Founders Mirka Serrato and Jonny Tanna wanted to create a new kind of art fair that could bridge the gap between emerging galleries and institutions.
Under new director Kate Sierzputowski, the fair opened with a tighter format and a sharper curatorial focus, driving early (and steady) sales across...
The artist's ban on conversation forced gala-goers to focus on the experience, stripping away that layer of social performance that so often distracts...
Nineties nostalgia is no longer niche, and trading cards and manga have evolved into serious financial assets.
Brian Yue and Claire Bi's Cheng-Lan’s Corner opened in March with "Cian Dayrit: A Country, A Body," the first solo exhibition in Hong Kong by the...
From Reggaetón to Matisse, Maurizio Cattelan and more, here's everything worth seeing during Chicago's biggest art week.
Artistic director Massimiliano Gioni has mounted an inaugural exhibition that can only be described as an epic of the modern human.
Observer caught up with the Sotheby's Asia head of modern and contemporary art to discuss a market in transition and how the auction house is...
"I find myself drawn more consistently to works that hold their own structure, where the logic is internal and doesn't rely on context to sustain...
In conversation with Observer, she outlined her vision for an even more curatorially focused fair rooted in strong institutional partnerships and...
"We try to stay open and, importantly, to stay happy. We don't want to chase one idea to the point of frustration. Instead, we keep multiple...
At Alexander Gray Associates and the Whitney Biennial, the artist advances his decades-long inquiry into ornament, abstraction and intuition.
From a $14 million diamond to a $10.1 million Hermès Birkin and a $25 million McLaren F1, luxury has become the auction market's most powerful engine...
In her latest exhibition at Bortolami, the artist confronts traumatic memories of war using paint as a channel for cathartic explorations of entropy...
In one of the world's most institution-heavy art scenes, Gubgub Studios is making the case for independence.
Taken together, the results paint a vivid portrait of a market that is coming of age without losing its appetite and building lasting value and legacy...
With its sharp focus on pop-inflected visual languages and regionally rooted sensibilities, this year's edition rewards serious looking.
The founders of the High Desert Art Fair wanted to create a fun, inclusive environment that would bring a more diverse audience into the fold. By all...