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Elisa CarolloObserver |
On the eve of Seoul Art Week, dealers are looking for signs that Korea’s recovering economy can revive collector confidence.
Early acquisitions of works by Theaster Gates, Derrick Adams and Rashid Johnson came before those artists' markets fully developed, reflecting the...
Founded “for artists by artists,” the space is one of the city’s most distinctive contemporary art institutions—a place where artists are...
"When I go to a museum or a gallery, I want to feel that the space is generous. I want people to come away with something. It doesn't need to be...
She turned an intensely personal visual language into one of contemporary art’s most recognizable motifs.
Converge 45’s 2026 triennial, “Here, To You, Now,” embraces the city’s decentralized creative ecosystem with the aim of creating connections...
The collector says recognition alone cannot compensate for the infrastructure, representation, knowledge and professional networks still lacking.
Industrialist Walter Paepcke's cultural vision built an art scene that punches well above its weight class.
As the organization prepares for its expanded anniversary edition in 2027, executive director Jenny Gil reflects on what the organization has learned...
She founded Cookie Factory, her 5,000-square-foot art space, as a privately funded nonprofit to avoid competing with local institutions like the...
A recent run of ambitious site-specific projects demonstrates aptly why exhibitions must be conceived in dialogue with architecture, history and the...
From its origins in a Dr. Atl donation to its current committee-driven acquisition process, the collection's curators describe a five-decade effort to...
Rob and Eric Thomas-Suwall routinely back hyper-emerging artists early and have turned their Instagram connections into a real-world community.
In "Death’s Sacred Mirror" at Lévy Gorvy Dayan London, ancient objects, modernist icons and the artist's own wounded forms speak across time.
"A trauma that you suffered in the past is constantly present," the artist-director reflected. "Revisiting Gwangju is important, but at the same time,...
Anne and Arthur Goldstein, Kay Culbreath Heller and J. Roderick Heller, Nancy Delman Portnoy and other philanthropic collectors recently placed major...
The couple recently donated 70 artworks to the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University in New Jersey, bringing the total number of works they have...
The lightning-fast theft at MuMe in Messina targeted rare works by the artist, raising new questions about museum security as art values become...
"The human condition is still the main topic of my observation. It is about our living conditions today, which is something we cannot avoid,...
With pieces including Miranda Priestly’s Dries Van Noten and Schiaparelli jackets and Andy Sachs’ stained Gabriela Hearst dress and iconic...
Clayton and Parker Calvert launched the NYC Culture Club during the pandemic to give artists greater visibility, collectors new inroads and the public...
Clayton and Parker Carver launched the NYC Culture Club during the pandemic to give artists greater visibility, collectors new inroads and the public...
Private Client Select’s Matt Sweitzer explains how advanced planning, staff training, better data and site-specific risk assessments can help...
Millennial and Gen Z art buyers are rejecting hype, speculation and inherited art-world conventions in favor of personal resonance, direct...
From Mitchell Rales’ $116 million gift to D.C.'s National Gallery to major commitments from Silicon Valley, foundations and dedicated cultural...
With the launch of 603 Arts Foundation, the collectors are expanding their support of artists beyond the mere acquisition of works.
The empire-building model that prioritized constant expansion over human connection hasn't yielded the expected returns in either market.
Founder Kentaro Totsuka is intentionally focusing on Japanese artists who have committed to building their lives in New York to close the gap between...
Featuring works by Monica Bonvicini, William Kentridge, Alexander Brodsky and others, the biennial confronts scarcity, displacement and ecological...
The town’s concentrated wealth and expanding cultural ecosystem offer dealers a lucrative summer alternative to the conventional fair circuit.
The proliferation of museums, foundations, private collections and galleries has turned the Greek capital into an annual destination for contemporary...
As an artist rather than a politician or a dissident, he does not want to employ the languages of pop art, propaganda or violence as his own modes of...
More than a repository for his own work, Fonds Bustamante is a place for artists to convene.
The artistic director and CEO reflects on AIR, ArtCrush and the cross-industry partnerships supporting ambitious, place-responsive commissions in the...
From Matisse in dialogue with Yves Saint Laurent in Nice to LUMA Arles and the region’s expanding network of foundations, these are the exhibitions...
In “Soft Perimeter” at Silverlens in New York, the artist uses cochineal, linen, movement and performance to explore how matter carries physical...
Continuously updated valuations from Winston Artory Group, Fine tells Observer, will let Metis assess each collection's collateral value faster and...
Housed in an airy subterranean space beneath a rippling ceiling of water, Fondation Carmignac is currently showing "SEA, POP & SUN." Yet to come:...
The billionaire art collector has amassed one of the most important and expansive private collections of contemporary art not only in Greece but...
A trove of 1960s and '70s works from the Botero family archive offers a fresh view of a formative era of the artist's life.
Arguably a contemporary opera, the work follows multiple characters in a Robert Altman-esque structure, taking viewers on a journey of extreme change.
Informed by recent experiences in Indonesia and a renewed engagement with animist thought, he is constructing a symbolic universe in which family...
The artist's latest exhibition at Thaddaeus Ropac in London transforms the acoustic resonance of the Lascaux caves into immersive paintings.
The East End's summer art calendar reaches well past the seasonal sales circuit, a reminder that this stretch of coastline has always been shaped as...
The Hamptons' image as an exclusive summer playground for the wealthy, she says, obscures a long-established Black history.
As debates around authorship, labor and creativity rage on, a growing number of artists are integrating artificial intelligence into their...
The summit's most revealing moment may have been Max Carter's confirmation that Christie's is already selling to Silicon Valley tech billionaires and...
With From Code to Canon, ArtMeta used Art Basel’s Zero 10 to frame digital art not as a niche of screens and NFTs but as a seventy-year history of...
Single-owner offerings drove much of this season's growth, accounting for nearly a third of total auction sales value.
Her practice imagines artificially intelligent machines and systems not as threats or antagonists but as humanity's companions in shared ecologies.