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Art Collector Spotlight: Flag Luxury Group Co-founder Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos

Being able to immerse herself in art is, she says, one of the highlights of her job.

12.11.2024 4

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Christa Terry

Curator Greg Pierce On How the Museum of Sex’s Warhol Show Came to Be

Andy Warhol’s obsession with celebrity was one of the defining aspects of his career, and analyses of that career, not to mention of his life, often...

28.10.2024 3

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For Nicola Vassell, Art Market Success Is Rooted in Character

Many publications, including this one, have told the story of gallerist and curator Nicola Vassell’s career arc, but here’s a tl;dr version: She...

24.10.2024 3

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Observer’s Guide to This Year’s Must-Visit November Art Fairs

This year’s November art fair calendar is relatively unbusy—relative because the downtime art world insiders used to enjoy has been largely eaten...

24.10.2024 4

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Christa Terry

These Are the World’s Most Haunted Paintings

Stories of haunted paintings have circulated for centuries, and we love these tales because they suggest that the creative process can conjure...

16.10.2024 7

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Painter Luke Agada Is Pushing the Boundaries of Representation

Since earning an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago last year, painter Luke Agada’s career has taken off....

08.10.2024 6

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Gillian Varney On the Lumen Prize and Its Relevance After Thirteen Years

In six days, Sotheby’s will open bidding for lots in an auction led by a work painted by a robot. Specifically Artefact 26, a fracas of eddying...

04.10.2024 9

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Kendra Walker’s Big Audacious Dream, Three Years In

Her work on Atlanta Art Week and beyond landed her a spot on this year’s Forbes 30 Under 30 Art & Style list.

30.09.2024 4

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Art Collector Spotlight: Margo and Jordan Castro

Doodles co-founder Jordan Castro and his wife, artist Margo Castro, relocated to Dubai from Miami this year and it wasn’t long before their Dubai...

26.09.2024 5

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Observer’s Guide to This Year’s Must-Visit October Art Fairs

Our roundup of this month's art fairs will help you put together the perfect itinerary.

25.09.2024 4

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Christa Terry

The Art Collectors Behind Christie’s ‘Exceptional Impressions’ Sale

On October 23, the auction house will offer up works from one of the largest and most diverse collections of prints ever amassed in the United States.

17.09.2024 5

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Christa Terry

Asia Week New York Is Back for Autumn With a Smaller Program of Exhibitions and Auctions

New York’s September art fair calendar, bookended as it is by Armory Week and the local edition of Affordable Art Fair, can have an overshadowing...

13.09.2024 10

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Christa Terry

Fitzhugh Karol and the Material Vernacular

The most immediately recognizable of Brooklyn-based sculptor Fitzhugh Karol’s works might be his colorful large-scale industrial steel sculptures...

12.09.2024 3

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Christa Terry

A-List Agent Rich Paul Is Behind Sotheby’s Latest Contemporary Curated Sale

A month ago in Munich, superstar singer Adele confirmed she was engaged to longtime boyfriend Rich Paul, introducing an entirely new audience to the...

11.09.2024 6

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Observer’s Guide to This Year’s Must-Visit September Art Fairs

Industry elders will remember when summer truly was the slow season in the art world: a time for mounting group shows featuring interesting works by...

27.08.2024 5

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A $35 Million Monet Will Lead the First Sale at Christie’s New Hong Kong Headquarters

Claude Monet’s Nymphéas (1897–99) is set to headline the inaugural sale at Christie’s new Zaha Hadid-designed Hong Kong headquarters on...

23.08.2024 3

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Artsy President Dustyn Kim On Evolving Alongside the Company

In 2017, Observer posed this question: As the online art auction space shrinks, is Artsy the heir apparent? In the years since, the art world has had...

20.08.2024 10

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These are the Banksy Animals in London Still On View

World-famous but still-anonymous street artist Banksy was recently active in London, applying more of their signature stencils to walls, windows and...

15.08.2024 4

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Christa Terry

Artist b. Robert Moore On Blurring the Lines Between the Personal and the Political in Art

Multidisciplinary artist b. Robert Moore drew as a child but didn’t start painting seriously until 2017, as a way to facilitate healing after...

15.08.2024 8

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48 Hours of Art in Denver: One Festival, Two Museums, Five Galleries and Too Much Coffee

Ask locals where to see the best art in Denver and more than a few will point you toward the famously angular Denver Art Museum. Multiple Uber drivers...

13.08.2024 5

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Observer’s Guide to This Year’s Must-Visit August Art Fairs

Are you ready to be both shocked and dismayed? I’m here to tell you that summer is already half over. August in the art world can feel like a long,...

02.08.2024 10

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Palmer Museum of Art Director Erin M. Coe On the Institution’s Recent Expansion

In June, the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State debuted a new building designed by Allied Works and landscape architect Reed Hilderbrand, who...

31.07.2024 7

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Could The Andy Warhol Museum’s Pop District Offer a Blueprint for Museum Recovery?

Museums around the world are working hard to find ways to overcome challenges related to audience growth and engagement, and the strategies they’re...

26.07.2024 9

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High Museum of Art Director Rand Suffolk Is Creating New Models of Audience Engagement

High Museum of Art director Rand Suffolk has a well-earned reputation for his commitment to collaborative community engagement and more equitable...

23.07.2024 8

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Art Collector Spotlight: StudioTwentySeven Directors Nacho Polo and Robert Onuska

“Our gallery has become an extension of our home,” STUDIOTWENTYSEVEN co-directors Nacho Polo and Robert Onuska tell Observer. Partners in both...

17.07.2024 4

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Midsummer Magic at Parrish Art Museum: Dinner, Dancing and the Sagaponack Sculpture Field Donation

Parrish Art Museum’s two-day Midsummer Dance and Dinner is a major highlight of the summer season for the cultural set. Benefit it may be—and...

16.07.2024 7

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Christa Terry

Bonhams Is Celebrating the Dog Days of Summer

International Dog Day is more than a month away, but Bonhams Scotland has already opened its annual The Dog Sale for online bidding. The auction,...

12.07.2024 4

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Christa Terry

Why the Legend of the Montauk Monster Will Never Die

“It looked like nothing I’d ever seen before,” Ryan O’Shea told Newsday reporter Joye Brown. “It looked like it died angry… I kept...

02.07.2024 4

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Why the Legend of the Montauk Monster Will Never Die

“It looked like nothing I’d ever seen before,” Ryan O’Shea told Newsday reporter Joye Brown. “It looked like it died angry… I kept...

02.07.2024 4

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Christa Terry

The World Trade Center Offers Case Studies in Making Space for Artists in Urban Centers

What if, instead of pricing artists out of cities, real estate developers could bring them back?

28.06.2024 5

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Big Names and Plenty of Shade: Inside the 2024 Serpentine Summer Party

The star-studded event, which marks the opening of the year’s pavilion and raises funds for Serpentine, was an art-loving people watcher’s dream.

27.06.2024 3

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Observer’s Guide to 2024’s Must-Visit July Art Fairs

There’s no rest for the weary. In July, the art world’s collective Basel hangover lingers, but many galleries have to pack it all up all over...

25.06.2024 4

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Christie’s ‘Dream Big’ Is a Treat for the Large-Format Sculpture Lover

Large-format sculpture is not only awe-inducing but very often, public-facing or at least easily accessible, which adds to the appeal. From massive...

18.06.2024 20

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What Not to Miss at This Year’s Museum Mile Festival

New York’s biggest block party, the Museum Mile Festival, is back next week on June 18 for its 46th edition and no invite is required to attend....

14.06.2024 4

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Christa Terry

‘Andy Warhol by Hand’ Puts the Icon’s Pre-Pop Drawings On the Block

Andy Warhol didn’t say “In the future everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes,” though that oft-repeated and much-misattributed...

13.06.2024 9

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Painter Tomasz Rut Opens Up About His Artistic Evolution

Painter Tomasz Rut has been called many things, from “modern-day Master” to one of the most collectible living artists. And while his name often...

12.06.2024 3

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Matisse, Maillol and One Ebullient Evening: Inside MoMA’s 2024 Party in the Garden

Arguably a highlight of the spring party season, MoMA’s annual Party in the Garden tends to attract an eclectic crowd of not only philanthropists,...

05.06.2024 6

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Younger Buyers and Million-Dollar Whiskeys: Uncorking the Changing World of Wine and Liquor Auctions

“The allure of wine as an alternative asset class is unmistakable."

24.05.2024 20

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Observer’s Guide to 2024’s Must-Visit June Art Fairs

The arrival of June ought to offer a reprieve after a busy May art fair calendar packed to the rafters with events both in and outside of New York...

21.05.2024 30

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Chloë Sevigny, Joan Jonas and More: A Who’s Who of Dia Art Foundation’s Spring Benefit

The organization celebrated its 50th anniversary with celebrity supporters including Sydney Lemmon and Julianne Moore.

14.05.2024 30

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Edible Pearls and Red Carpet Parrots: A Look Inside MoMA PS1’s 2024 Gala and Afterparty

Notable attendees included philanthropist Agnes Gund, Museum of Modern Art director Glenn Lowry and the artist KAWS.

10.05.2024 30

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Art as Resistance: Vian Sora On Veiled Meaning and Unleashed Expression

Independent New York opens on May 9 and with it, Iraqi-American painter Vian Sora will present a new body of work with David Nolan Gallery (Booth...

08.05.2024 20

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Christa Terry

A Hot Night in Atlanta: Inside the High Museum’s Driskell Gala and Afterparty

Several events are billed as the “Met Gala of the South,” among them the High Museum of Art’s David C. Driskell Prize Gala, which on April 26...

30.04.2024 20

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Street Pop Artist Jisbar On Reinvention and Rediscovery

In 2019, a reinterpreted version of the Mona Lisa painted by French pop-street artist Jean-Baptiste Launay, better known as Jisbar, floated more than...

29.04.2024 10

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Miriam Simun On Technology in Art and Science as a Medium

Earlier this year, dancer Mor Mendel took the stage with Boston Dynamics’ Spot at 7×7, an annual symposium organized by the born-digital art and...

18.04.2024 5

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Her Life in Art: An Interview With Painter Loie Hollowell

Paddy Johnson, writing about Pace Gallery’s 2019 expansion and its inaugural shows, said: “Loie Hollowell’s abstract paintings of blobs have...

16.04.2024 7

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Christa Terry

Paloma Contreras Lomas and Ines Doujak Are Here to Make You Think

At first glance, pairing the work of rising star Paloma Contreras Lomas and established multidisciplinary artist Ines Doujak—as the Center for Art,...

13.04.2024 10

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Christa Terry

Inside YoungArts’ New York Gala in the Met’s Magical Temple of Dendur

This past Monday, a mix of cultural and philanthropic luminaries gathered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to raise funds for YoungArts at the...

10.04.2024 10

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Monet’s ‘Moulin De Limetz’ Will Lead Christie’s 20th Century Evening Sale in New York

When a painting Claude Monet made of the grain mill at Limetz-Villez on the River Epte near his residence at Giverny in 1888 went on sale at...

01.04.2024 20

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These Are the World’s Most Visually Stunning Museums

At a 2014 press conference covered by El Mundo , Frank Gehry proclaimed that “98 percent of everything that is built and designed today is pure...

28.03.2024 20

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