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Hassan Hajjaj Brings His Signature Vivacity to Hannah Traore Gallery

Hassan Hajjaj Brings His Signature Vivacity to Hannah Traore Gallery

This photographer’s world is replete with cool sunglasses, Moroccan tea and primary colors.

07.03.2025 3

Observer

Sarah Moroz

In Sharjah, Five Curators and Two-Hundred Artists Confront Global Issues Through a Regional Lens

Throughout the Sharjah Biennial, works are described using overwrought, often politicized language, and the grandiloquent framing can, cumulatively,...

18.02.2025 5

Observer

Sarah Moroz

Rare Vintage Ernest Cole Prints at Magnum Gallery Bring the Artist’s Archive to Life

London hosted a sister show; Cape Town is next.

11.02.2025 3

Observer

Sarah Moroz

Hauser & Wirth in Paris Examines Francis Picabia’s Late Period

“Éternel Recommencement” will make its way to New York in the spring.

06.02.2025 1

Observer

Sarah Moroz

Building the Market for African Art in France: An Interview With Sitor Senghor, Artistic Director of AKAA

Senghor has big plans to increase the fair's prestige and visibility and stabilize the African art market in France.

02.02.2025 4

Observer

Sarah Moroz

Pride of Place for Pan-African Art: An Interview with 1-54 Founding Director Touria El Glaoui

Each edition of the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair highlights the plurality of the continent.

31.01.2025 9

Observer

Sarah Moroz

At the Louvre Lens, Imparting the Albatross of Displacement Through Art

Art can serve as an essential reminder that rootedness is not to be taken for granted in this chaotic world.

13.01.2025 6

Observer

Sarah Moroz

Move Over, Fernand Léger: In Paris, Nadia Khodossievitch-Léger Gets Her Due

An installation view of “Nadia Léger: An Avant-Garde Woman” at Musée Maillol in Paris. Tempora/dbcreation, Courtesy Musée Maillol Does the name...

30.12.2024 3

Observer

Sarah Moroz

What We Know About the ‘Cézanne 2025’ Celebrations in Aix-en-Provence

Paul Cezanne, Les Joueurs de cartes, 1890 et 1895; Huile sur toile, 47 x 56,5 cm. Paris, musée d’Orsay; Legs comte Isaac de Camondo, 1911. Hervé...

17.12.2024 4

Observer

Sarah Moroz

The Boundaries Between Art and Commerce Collapse in ‘Money on the Wall: Andy Warhol’

“Is there anything more central to our modern world than buying and selling?” ponders the opening text of “Money on the Wall: Andy Warhol,” an...

03.12.2024 7

Observer

Sarah Moroz

Tom Wesselmann’s Work at Fondation Louis Vuitton Mixes Entertainment and Unease

In the late 1950s, the Pop movement enmeshed fine art with popular culture, foregrounding everything from billboards to comic strips to celebrity...

14.11.2024 1

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Sarah Moroz

Double Take: An Exhibition in Paris Explores Trompe-l’œil Tropes

In a world of fake news and ‘truthiness,’ of A.I.’s terrifyingly indistinguishable verisimilitude with reality, the Musée Marmottan Monet’s...

06.11.2024 6

Observer

Sarah Moroz

Jules de Balincourt Might Just Be Brooklyn’s Rousseau

Jules De Balincourt’s new show “Moving Landscapes” at Victoria Miró in London is full of wind-whipped seafoam foliage and roiling red island...

03.10.2024 2

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Sarah Moroz

Alexandre Lenoir’s Paintings Are More Elaborate Than You Can Imagine

French painter Alexandre Lenoir works in Vitry-sur-Seine, southeast of the Parisian city center, in an enormous former garage near an Indian beauty...

05.09.2024 1

Observer

Sarah Moroz

The Curators of ‘Yves Saint Laurent: Line and Expression’ On How the Show Came to Be

“Yves Saint Laurent: Line and Expression,” on at the Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) through October 27, is a presentation of both fashion...

12.08.2024 2

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Sarah Moroz

Yoshitomo Nara Brings Pathos, Humor and Musical Citations to Guggenheim Bilbao

What a soundtrack is to a movie, a Spotify list is to the new non-chronological retrospective of Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara now on view at...

02.08.2024 2

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Sarah Moroz