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In Times Square, Yvette Mayorga’s Candy-Pink Carriage Confronts the American Dream Beyond Its Sparkle

In Times Square, Yvette Mayorga’s Candy-Pink Carriage Confronts the American Dream Beyond Its Sparkle

Installing 'Magic Grasshopper' in Times Square—perhaps the ultimate emblem of America’s promise of prosperity through consumerism—only sharpens...

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Izumi Kato’s Hybrid Totemic Forms Trace Possible Paths of Ecological Survival

Izumi Kato’s Hybrid Totemic Forms Trace Possible Paths of Ecological Survival

Through fluid forms and radiant color, Kato translates spiritual and biological evolution into a visual language of transformation.

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Early Sales at Art Basel Paris See Buyers Favoring Substance Over Speculation

Early Sales at Art Basel Paris See Buyers Favoring Substance Over Speculation

Preliminary reports suggest that the art market is regaining traction at every level, but with a sharper focus.

23.10.2025 4

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In New York City, WORTHLESSSTUDIOS Is Charting New Models for Sustainable Sculptural and Installation Practices

In New York City, WORTHLESSSTUDIOS Is Charting New Models for Sustainable Sculptural and Installation Practices

The organization deliberately focuses on process—the research, prototyping and inevitable failures that precede a finished artwork—to provoke...

23.10.2025 2

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12 Exhibitions Not to Miss During Art Basel Paris

12 Exhibitions Not to Miss During Art Basel Paris

From François Pinault’s sweeping Minimalism show at the Bourse de Commerce to Gerhard Richter’s career-defining retrospective at Fondation Louis...

22.10.2025 1

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Across Paris Art Week, Dealer-Led Fairs Command Attention

Across Paris Art Week, Dealer-Led Fairs Command Attention

As operating costs rise and mega-fairs tighten their grip, Paris has become the epicenter of a new kind of rebellion: dealer-led fairs reclaiming...

22.10.2025 10

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Paris Internationale at 10: How the Dealer-Led Fair Anticipated Today’s Art Market

Paris Internationale at 10: How the Dealer-Led Fair Anticipated Today’s Art Market

The art fair recently announced a new Milan edition that will debut during that city’s art week in April.

21.10.2025 3

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Inside the Art World’s Latest Scams: Fake Profiles, Fraudulent Consignments and Digital Impersonation

Inside the Art World’s Latest Scams: Fake Profiles, Fraudulent Consignments and Digital Impersonation

Barriers to deepfake-level authenticity are collapsing, making identity theft in the art world not only effortless but chillingly precise.

20.10.2025 2

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Inside Fondation Cartier’s New Jean Nouvel-Designed Space

Inside Fondation Cartier’s New Jean Nouvel-Designed Space

“The architecture responds directly to a program that has always been international and cross-disciplinary—but that now promises to expand even...

20.10.2025 2

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London Sees Its Best Evening Auction Results in Years

London Sees Its Best Evening Auction Results in Years

The city's auction houses roared back with big numbers and a wave of artist records, signaling a renewed surge of confidence at the top of the market.

18.10.2025 3

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No Deadlines, No Demands: Inside Delfina Foundation, London’s Most International Residency

No Deadlines, No Demands: Inside Delfina Foundation, London’s Most International Residency

"Our residencies don’t demand any kind of formal outcome from the artists or curators who take part," Aaron Cezar, the organization's founding...

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Frieze London 2025 Restores Market Confidence and Outsells Expectations

Frieze London 2025 Restores Market Confidence and Outsells Expectations

The energy on opening day felt less like a post-Brexit correction and more like the city snapping back into its golden age—and perhaps even better...

16.10.2025 10

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ATHR Gallery Cofounder Mohammed Hafiz On Saudi Arabia’s Art Awakening

ATHR Gallery Cofounder Mohammed Hafiz On Saudi Arabia’s Art Awakening

While the U.A.E.’s art ecosystem—which includes Dubai’s gallery network and institutional hubs like Sharjah—has been widely reported on, far...

16.10.2025 2

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LACMA Secures Landmark Gift of Austrian Expressionist Works from the Kallir Family

LACMA Secures Landmark Gift of Austrian Expressionist Works from the Kallir Family

The museum will unveil the full gift in a major exhibition in 2030, but an initial selection of 24 works will debut much sooner in the special...

15.10.2025 3

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Indigenous Artists Use AR to Rewrite the Narrative in the Met’s American Wing

Indigenous Artists Use AR to Rewrite the Narrative in the Met’s American Wing

‘ENCODED’ is not intended as a protest but as a precise act of cultural negotiation—a strategic use of technology through which artists can...

15.10.2025 3

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What the Art World Can Learn from Pokémon Cards, Labubu and the Nostalgia-Driven Economy

What the Art World Can Learn from Pokémon Cards, Labubu and the Nostalgia-Driven Economy

The collectibles market may offer a viable blueprint for cultivating lifelong engagement from a new generation of art collectors.

10.10.2025 2

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Frieze Expands to Abu Dhabi as the Gulf’s Cultural Ambitions Accelerate

Frieze Expands to Abu Dhabi as the Gulf’s Cultural Ambitions Accelerate

Abu Dhabi Art Fair will hold its final edition this November before officially rebranding as Frieze Abu Dhabi next year.

10.10.2025 3

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Art Basel Qatar Announces 87 Exhibitors Bringing Work for the Inaugural Edition

Art Basel Qatar Announces 87 Exhibitors Bringing Work for the Inaugural Edition

Artistic director Wael Shawky teased that the commissioned public projects will amplify regional voices, with their full scope to be revealed in the...

09.10.2025 2

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Taymour Grahne’s Trajectory Shows How a New Generation of Dealers Is Thinking Globally

Taymour Grahne’s Trajectory Shows How a New Generation of Dealers Is Thinking Globally

The gallerist is emblematic of a cultural cohort that embraces flexibility.

09.10.2025 2

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Roshini Vadehra Charts India’s Growing Role in the Global Art Market

Roshini Vadehra Charts India’s Growing Role in the Global Art Market

Observer caught up with the gallerist to discuss the country’s booming art market, GST cuts, new collectors and the country’s growing role on the...

08.10.2025 1

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What the National Gallery’s Closure Says About the Politics of Culture in America

What the National Gallery’s Closure Says About the Politics of Culture in America

For anyone even faintly aware of global history, certain parallels are chilling.

08.10.2025 9

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Teresita Fernández Maps the Infinite in ‘Liquid Horizon’ at Lehmann Maupin

Teresita Fernández Maps the Infinite in ‘Liquid Horizon’ at Lehmann Maupin

Her latest sculptural fields are a meditation on humanity’s fragile place in the universe.

07.10.2025 3

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Artist Naotaka Hiro On Exploring the Unknown Self

Artist Naotaka Hiro On Exploring the Unknown Self

His process turns the act of creation into performance, where the artist’s movements and repetitions become both the subject and the record of the...

06.10.2025 3

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In Hayv Kahraman’s ‘Ghost Fires,’ Grief Becomes a Living Ritual

In Hayv Kahraman’s ‘Ghost Fires,’ Grief Becomes a Living Ritual

Like myths and folktales, her densely symbolic works act as vessels of ancestral memory, turning her practice into a storytelling ritual that links...

06.10.2025 3

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Shara Hughes’s Luminous Landscapes Open Portals into Life, Death and the Sublime

Hughes's semi-abstract paintings are shaped by Romantic visions of nature that provoke awe and unease in equal measure.

03.10.2025 4

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Christie’s Secures Another Major Consignment in Max Berry’s Encyclopedic Art Collection

“It’s time for me to use what I know to start bringing to market the things I love,” Berry told Observer in an exclusive interview ahead of the...

03.10.2025 4

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In This Cryptic Interview, Lee Bul Illuminates Her ‘Grand Narrative’ and Speaks to Humanity’s Future

Where the gleaming 17-meter-long silver airship at the entrance of Bul's major survey in Seoul is taking us will ultimately depend on how we choose to...

02.10.2025 2

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Hamburger Bahnhof’s Sam Bardaouil On Co-Leading a Museum in Flux

"When people see two directors working in dialogue, it sets a precedent for non-hierarchical collaboration."

01.10.2025 3

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Ludovic Nkoth Probes What It Means to Be Part of History at MASSIMODECARLO

"You can’t escape your own personal history, that’s true, but I’m using my story to speak to something larger, and I’m hoping now the work...

01.10.2025 2

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‘Prism of the Real’ at the National Art Center Tokyo Considers an Overlooked Fertile Period of Art in Japan

The exhibition is a crucial survey of an often overlooked chapter of Japanese contemporary art—one with a message for today’s increasingly divided...

30.09.2025 3

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Alessandra Di Castro On Antique Dealers as Cultural Stewards

“Before anything else, the role of the antiquarian is to create culture,” she tells Observer.

30.09.2025 3

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Picasso’s ‘Buste de femme’ Leads the Hong Kong Auctions at HK$196.7 With Robust Results Across Houses

Last week's most notable results reveal quite a bit about the current state of the market in Asia and beyond ahead of the October and November sales...

29.09.2025 9

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MoMA PS1’s ‘The Gatherers’ Rejects Climate Catastrophism in Favor of Resilient Resourcefulness

Across sculpture, video and installation, the works in this soon-to-close show interrogate the systems that define value, utility and survival in the...

29.09.2025 4

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Can Cross-Industry Partnerships Offer the Art World a Lifeline?

As the art industry searches for new sources of support, dismissing brand collaborations looks less like prudence and more like shortsightedness.

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Hoor Al Qasimi’s Aichi Triennale Confronts Generative and Destructive Extremes

Here, it is abundantly clear that creativity in the face of devastation carries an infinite capacity for quiet resilience.

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Sotheby’s Bets Big On Abu Dhabi With a $150 Million Preview and Luxury Collectors’ Week

The auction house's strategy in the Gulf dovetails with a broader push to expand beyond traditional auctions, positioning the brand as a full-scale...

25.09.2025 5

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Cai Guo-Qiang’s Himalayan Fireworks Performance Ignites Ecological and Cultural Backlash

The brand quickly deleted all videos of the performance from its channels; the artist has issued no apologies and has declined to comment.

24.09.2025 3

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In Edward Burtynsky and Alkan Avcıoğlu’s ‘Hypertopographics,’ Photography Meets A.I.

Their collaboration at the intersection of technique and technology marks a significant moment in contemporary art history.

24.09.2025 4

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Don’t Miss: Hannah Woo’s Hybrid Bodies Confronting Adaptation Beyond the Human

Woo’s sculptures are arenas in which the fundamental tensions of contemporary existence are materially negotiated.

23.09.2025 2

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Chloë Bass Turns the City Subway into a Monument to the Power of Human Storytelling

Her first sound-based public artwork transforms ordinary safety announcements into poetic, multilingual encounters.

23.09.2025 10

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Mapping Asia Society Texas’ Place in Houston’s Global Art Identity

The institution’s multidisciplinary programming highlights the rich diversity of Asia while fostering exchange across the city's sprawling...

21.09.2025 4

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Agnes Gund, Relentless Arts Patron and Supporter of Justice-Impacted Artists, Dies at 87

Her passing leaves a profound void in New York’s art world.

20.09.2025 2

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Kim Tschang-yeul’s Water Dropletss Flow Through Eternity at MMCA Seoul

A major career survey of the artist's work reveals a life spent transforming the traumas of war, displacement and memory into something equal parts...

19.09.2025 3

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Karpidas’s Sotheby’s Sale Marks a New Peak for Surrealism and Design

Works by women Surrealists, including Leonora Carrington and Dorothea Tanning, shattered expectations—part of a broader market surge for Latin...

19.09.2025 20

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Five Museum Shows to See During Houston Art Week

From A.A. Murakami’s immersive U.S. debut to a Tomashi Jackson survey, the city's first-ever Art Week has inspired a series of must-see exhibitions...

19.09.2025 4

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Antony Gormley Reflects on Sculpture as an Inquiry into Being and Space

“The potential of sculpture to reinforce first-hand physical experience excites me,” the artist told Observer. “My test for good sculpture is...

18.09.2025 10

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How CAMH Is Helping Houston Overcome the Art World’s ‘Southern Blind Spot’

“Museums today are expected to be more than just places to look at art—they’re destinations where people spend time,” director Melissa...

18.09.2025 5

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How Demet and Alphan Eşeli’s INSTANBUL’74 Reimagines Turkey’s Role in the Global Arts Scene

"It’s about creating spaces where people can come together, share ideas and build something meaningful,” Demet told Observer.

18.09.2025 20

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In the Latest Genesis Facade Commission, Jeffrey Gibson Calls for Awareness Beyond the Human

“I find that other animal species are rarely acknowledged as having their own independent intellect and autonomous relationship with the larger...

17.09.2025 3

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Will Trophy Estates Jolt an Auction Market on the Rocks This November?

The question is whether these high-profile, single-owner collections can inject hope and revive excitement after a sluggish season, particularly on...

16.09.2025 8

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