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At the First Bienal del Agua, Demetrio Paparoni Makes Water Political

Featuring works by Monica Bonvicini, William Kentridge, Alexander Brodsky and others, the biennial confronts scarcity, displacement and ecological...

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Elisa Carollo

How Aspen Art Fair Is Turning the Mountain Escape Into a Collector Destination

The town’s concentrated wealth and expanding cultural ecosystem offer dealers a lucrative summer alternative to the conventional fair circuit.

01.08.2026 3

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Elisa Carollo

These Are the Must-See Art Exhibitions in Athens Right Now

The proliferation of museums, foundations, private collections and galleries has turned the Greek capital into an annual destination for contemporary...

31.07.2026 7

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Elisa Carollo

Tran Luong Considers Vietnam’s Reality Through an Imagined Underwater World

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...

31.07.2026 3

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Elisa Carollo

Jean-Marc Bustamante Gives Arles a New Contemporary Art Space

More than a repository for his own work, Fonds Bustamante is a place for artists to convene.

30.07.2026 6

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Elisa Carollo

How Nicola Lees Recentered the Aspen Art Museum Around Artists Instead of Objects

The artistic director and CEO reflects on AIR, ArtCrush and the cross-industry partnerships supporting ambitious, place-responsive commissions in the...

29.07.2026 8

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Elisa Carollo

A Summer Art Road Trip Through the South of France

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...

28.07.2026 7

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Elisa Carollo

Carmen Argote Turns Cochineal’s Extractive History Into a Study of Embodiment

In “Soft Perimeter” at Silverlens in New York, the artist uses cochineal, linen, movement and performance to explore how matter carries physical...

28.07.2026 8

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Elisa Carollo

Rebecca Fine Launches Metis, a New Art Lender Powered by Winston Artory Group Data

Continuously updated valuations from Winston Artory Group, Fine tells Observer, will let Metis assess each collection's collateral value faster and...

28.07.2026 9

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Elisa Carollo

How a Protected Mediterranean Island Became One of France’s Most Compelling Art Destinations

Housed in an airy subterranean space beneath a rippling ceiling of water, Fondation Carmignac is currently showing "SEA, POP & SUN." Yet to come:...

27.07.2026 10

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Elisa Carollo

In Athens, Works from George Economou’s Art Collection Take Stock of the 21st Century

The billionaire art collector has amassed one of the most important and expansive private collections of contemporary art not only in Greece but...

27.07.2026 10

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Elisa Carollo

In Sotheby’s Botero Show, Rare Works Meet a Resurgent Global Market

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.

24.07.2026 10

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Elisa Carollo

Doug Aitken’s ‘Lightscape’ Turns the American Dream Into a Requiem

Arguably a contemporary opera, the work follows multiple characters in a Robert Altman-esque structure, taking viewers on a journey of extreme change.

23.07.2026 8

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Elisa Carollo

Kai Yoda’s Animist Paintings and the Beast Within

Informed by recent experiences in Indonesia and a renewed engagement with animist thought, he is constructing a symbolic universe in which family...

23.07.2026 8

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Elisa Carollo

Tracing Universal Frequencies, Oliver Beer Makes Sound Visible

The artist's latest exhibition at Thaddaeus Ropac in London transforms the acoustic resonance of the Lascaux caves into immersive paintings.

21.07.2026 7

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Elisa Carollo

The Must-See Shows in the Hamptons This Summer

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...

21.07.2026 9

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Elisa Carollo

Storm Ascher On (Re)Building Black Arts Infrastructure in the Hamptons

The Hamptons' image as an exclusive summer playground for the wealthy, she says, obscures a long-established Black history.

20.07.2026 8

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Elisa Carollo

How Artists Are Using A.I. and Where They Are Drawing the Line

As debates around authorship, labor and creativity rage on, a growing number of artists are integrating artificial intelligence into their...

18.07.2026 10

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Elisa Carollo

At Christie’s Art+Tech Summit 2026, the State of A.I., New Wealth and the Art Market’s Next Chapter

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...

17.07.2026 10

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Elisa Carollo

ArtMeta: When Digital Art Enters the Canon, Tech Millionaires Will Enter the Market

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...

15.07.2026 8

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Elisa Carollo

Trophy Collections and Luxury Spending Powered Christie’s and Sotheby’s Record Half-Year Results

Single-owner offerings drove much of this season's growth, accounting for nearly a third of total auction sales value.

15.07.2026 8

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Elisa Carollo

Céline Shen and the Art of Living With A.I.

Her practice imagines artificially intelligent machines and systems not as threats or antagonists but as humanity's companions in shared ecologies.

15.07.2026 10

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Elisa Carollo

Sébastien Borget Is Expanding Digital Art’s Reach Without Softening Its Ambition

With a background in gaming, virtual worlds and Web3, he approaches art from the infrastructure side of digital culture.

14.07.2026 8

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Elisa Carollo

Sean Green Built the Gallery World’s First CRM. Now He’s Building Its First A.I. Agents.

He describes ARTERNAL's approach as "human in the loop," with people still responsible for oversight, final sign-off and all tasks requiring judgment.

14.07.2026 10

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Elisa Carollo

Can Magnus Resch’s A.I. App Crack the Art Market’s Transparency Problem?

"No human advisor can continuously monitor the entire art market. A.I. can... It gives people access to information and discovery tools that were...

14.07.2026 10

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Elisa Carollo

Faig Ahmed Weaves Azerbaijan’s Past Into Its Future in Venice

For the country’s national pavilion, the artist reimagines the carpet as a living technology, bridging centuries-old craft, mysticism, neuroscience...

13.07.2026 20

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Elisa Carollo

UNESCO’s A.I. Report Considers How Technology Can Serve Culture

The organization's investigation into A.I. and culture frames artificially intelligent technologies as both an opportunity and a threat.

13.07.2026 10

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Elisa Carollo

At the Grand Palais, Laure Prouvost Translates Quantum Physics Into Something You Can Feel

"Nous, frissons d'étoiles" turns quantum physics into a poetic, bodily experience that asks visitors to engage with entanglement, uncertainty and the...

13.07.2026 10

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Elisa Carollo

At Lisson Gallery, Kelly Akashi Gives Resilience Form

In “Heirloom,” the artist transforms mallow weeds, lace, quartz, Corten steel and cast glass into fragile but forceful meditations on memory,...

10.07.2026 10

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Elisa Carollo

The Future Perfect’s Laura Young Makes the Case for Design as the Next Collecting Frontier

She reflects on collectors, craft, functionality and why the sofa should no longer be an afterthought.

10.07.2026 10

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Elisa Carollo

Kingsley Ng and Angel Hui’s “Fermata” Brings the Rhythms of Hong Kong to Venice

The exhibition builds a visual and sonic bridge between two cities shaped by water and strong maritime histories.

09.07.2026 10

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Elisa Carollo

Phillips’s CEO Martin Wilson On What the House’s $507 Million Spring Reveals About the Market

From priority bidding to record watch sales and a 40 percent new-buyer rate, the auction house's spring season tells a story about where the auction...

08.07.2026 9

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Elisa Carollo

The Most Valuable Tennis Memorabilia Ever Sold at Auction

From Djokovic’s record-smashing Australian Open racquet to Federer’s pristine Wimbledon whites, Grand Slam history now routinely sells in the...

08.07.2026 9

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Elisa Carollo

Stefanie Hessler’s Vision for Swiss Institute’s New Permanent Bowery Home

In moving to the Bowery, the institution joins an expanding local ecosystem of cultural institutions anchored by the recently reopened New Museum, as...

08.07.2026 10

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Elisa Carollo

Zohran Mamdani’s Culture Budget Is Historic, But New York Needs a Broader Plan for Protecting Artists and the Arts

The question now is whether the city can port cultural funding into a strategy for urban development, artistic resilience and civic capability.

07.07.2026 10

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Elisa Carollo

Stephanie Hessler’s Vision for Swiss Institute’s New Permanent Bowery Home

In moving to the Bowery, the institution joins an expanding local ecosystem of cultural institutions anchored by the recently reopened New Museum, as...

07.07.2026 10

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Elisa Carollo

Anoushka Mirchandani On the Body as Personal and Familial Archive

She describes the women in her paintings as anonymous but deeply personal, in that they condense her matrilineage—images of her mother, grandmother...

06.07.2026 10

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Elisa Carollo

In London’s Classics Week Sales, Old Masters Were Back, But Only the Best of the Best

Beyond exceptional trophy objects, the Classics market proved selective and unforgiving: several Old Master works needed the premium to reach low...

06.07.2026 20

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Elisa Carollo

As the Semiquincentennial Approaches, Collectors Are Rethinking What American History Is Worth

"There is a particular excitement and celebration of these items right now," according to Heritage Auctions specialist Caroline Tamposi.

03.07.2026 10

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Elisa Carollo

Sotheby’s Marks America’s Semiquincentennial With an Exhibition of 250 Years of Art, Culture and Mythmaking

Timed to the nation’s 250th anniversary, a new Breuer exhibition traces American identity through art, literature, sports, history and a...

01.07.2026 10

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Elisa Carollo

In Her Hauser & Wirth Debut, Firelei Báez Creates Portals for an Imaginative Future Beyond Collapse

Across two floors, Báez invites us to contemplate the slippage from order to collapse, as entropy drives us ever closer to the state of chaos that...

01.07.2026 10

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Elisa Carollo

On the High Line, Xin Liu Imagines the Lonely Afterlife of a Decommissioned Satellite

"NOAA: A Fall Towards Home" explores the depth of despair and the possibility of hope inherent in exile and disconnection.

30.06.2026 10

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Elisa Carollo

11 Record-Breaking Auction Lots That Reshaped the Americana Market

Once grounded in furniture, folk art, silver, ceramics, stoneware and samplers, this expansive collecting category's highest prices suggest that...

30.06.2026 20

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Elisa Carollo

At Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center, NOMAD’s First U.S. Edition Found an Ideal Stage

"Robert Wilson created a place unlike any other, where theater, visual art, architecture, performance and experimentation coexist; that spirit feels...

29.06.2026 10

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Elisa Carollo

Christie’s and Phillips Kept London’s June Auctions Moving But Not Flying

Christie’s Zabludowicz sale met expectations, while Phillips’ more globally diverse offerings demonstrated that priority bidding can still secure...

26.06.2026 10

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Elisa Carollo

In the Icelandic Pavilion, Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir’s Mythmaking Takes Its Most Fluid Form

"Imagination is such a source of intense power, and we can use it as a starting point to create a new world. I really fiercely believe that," the...

26.06.2026 20

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Elisa Carollo

Sotheby’s Lewis Collection Sale Powered a Record £393.4M Night in London

The £296 million result made it the most valuable single-owner sale in London's auction history.

25.06.2026 10

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Elisa Carollo

For Stephen Lichty, Sculpture Makes Visible What Matter Remembers

The San Francisco-based artist approaches artmaking as an act of observation rather than authorship.

24.06.2026 20

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Elisa Carollo

JR’s ‘La Caverne du Pont Neuf’ Is a Portal Into Paris’s Geologic History

Whereas most of the artist's recent interventions have kept the illusion on the surface, this remarkable immersive installation invites viewers to...

24.06.2026 10

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Elisa Carollo

The Lewis and Zabludowicz Collections Anchor London’s June Auctions in the Art Market’s Final Pre-Summer Test

These are the lots worth watching.

23.06.2026 20

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Elisa Carollo