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Reviews, commentary, news and interviews with and about the artists who influence every corner of the art market. Visit our Artist Index to browse all artists Observer has chronicled over the last 30+ years.

A painting of a pastoral landscape

One Fine Show: “Grandma Moses, A Good Day’s Work” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Staged in Washington against the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, it frames a life spanning Lincoln to Kennedy as a parable of the nation.
By Dan Duray
A large horizontal painting by Konstantina Krikzoni presents a dense arrangement of intertwined figures in pink, red, green and brown tones.

Konstantina Krikzoni’s Warriors Find Their Power in Balance

In her latest work, she channels grief, Greek antiquity and Jungian duality into a fresh language of feminine force, androgynous physicality and open possibility.
By Elisa Carollo
A black-and-white performance still shows a seated woman in a slip while another person uses scissors to cut fabric from her clothing.

Yoko Ono Has Outlasted the Scorn, the Caricatures and the Blame

"Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind" at The Broad in L.A. brings together decades of work that predated and anticipated many of the ideas now central to contemporary art.
By Jordan Riefe

After the Clearing: Remembering Hilde Lynn Helphenstein

By Georges Berges
A large crowd gathers outside the Liste entrance in Basel, with white fair banners hanging on either side of the building and colorful umbrellas to the right.

At Liste Basel, Market Trends Give Way to Explorations of Contemporary Anxiety

By Elisa Carollo

For David Hockney, Looking Was Living

By Henry Roberts
A framed painting shows a lush orange-toned garden scene with a seated musician, peacocks, birds and dense foliage.

Ho Jae Kim’s Civil Art Returns to Christie’s With a Million-Dollar Milestone in Sight

By Elisa Carollo
A woman in a pink long-sleeved shirt leans over a paint-splattered wooden table piled with crumpled paint tubes, with large abstract paintings visible behind her in the studio.

Francesca Mollett’s Architecture of Abstraction

By Elisa Carollo
A painting of a dead, trussed sheep

One Fine Show: “Zurbarán” at the National Gallery in London

By Dan Duray
A studio portrait shows a man wearing sunglasses, a white T-shirt and tan pants standing in a cluttered workshop with tools, shelves, hoses, sculptures and worktables around him.

Sébastien Léon’s Material Exploration

By Christa Terry
An image of a stamp sheet shows repeated Keith Haring-style “Forever USA” stamps, each with black outlined figures holding up a red heart.

How the World’s Great Artist Foundations Stay Solvent

By Daniel Grant
An installation view shows translucent circular panels wrapping through the Korean Pavilion, with sculptural stations placed throughout the sunlit wooden interior.

In the Korean Pavilion, Nation-Building Is an Open and Ongoing Process

By Elisa Carollo
An installation view shows a white gallery with a large red wall text work, three smaller red text panels, paintings on surrounding walls and a bright yellow sculptural exclamation mark on the floor.

Sprüth Magers Celebrates a Decade in Los Angeles With the Artists Who Helped Define a City

By Jordan Riefe
An abstract work on paper shows many black and red dots, eyes, stars, spirals and curving lines spread across a cream-colored background, with color calibration bars visible at the top and bottom.

Joan Miró’s Joy Is as Infectious as Ever

By Dian Parker
A messy bed with white sheets and two pillows on a blue rug. There are garbage strewn around

One Fine Show: “Tracey Emin, A Second Life” at Tate Modern in London

By Dan Duray
A spacious gallery installation with suspended vertical wires, colorful curved glass panels arranged across the floor, and large wall-mounted glass works.

Su Xiaobai’s Meditative Material Practice Is the Focus of One of the Biennale’s Most Commanding Shows

By Elisa Carollo
Photo by Dan Bradica Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York

The Temporal and Geographical Ambiguity of Mark Manders

By Elisa Carollo
An abstract collaborative painting shows bold red, black, gold, purple and blue shapes around a central white circle marked with handwritten signatures.

Can Rock Royalty Really Make Art Worth Owning?

By Simon Coates
A man sits cross-legged in front of a large quilt-like textile with red, blue and white geometric patterns.

At Marianne Boesky, Sanford Biggers Rewrites the Rules of Material Storytelling

By Elisa Carollo
A portrait photograph shows Manuel Mathieu standing in front of a large abstract painting with purple, orange and white forms, framed by hanging strips of textured material.

Manuel Mathieu’s Venice Biennale Debut Asks How We Carry the Past

By Elise Morton
A sculptural assemblage in black leaning against a cream-colored wall

One Fine Show: “Louise Nevelson, Mrs. N’s Palace” at the Centre Pompidou-Metz

By Dan Duray
An ornate museum gallery with dark curtains, glass cabinets and classical busts displays several white pillow-like sculptural figures positioned across the floor.

Erwin Wurm Transforms the Fortuny Museum into a Theater of the Absurd

By Elisa Carollo
The artist stands inside his installation beside monumental vessel sculptures made of reflective metal, titanium forms and intricate ornamental details.

Wallace Chan’s Dual-Site Exhibition Bridges Not Only Geography But Also Matter, Energy, Past and Future

By Elisa Carollo
A man with a green striped jacket and red cap looks up at a massive bright orange fire hydrant sculpture in a grassy park.

Roberto Lugo On Thinking Larger Than Life in Madison Square Park

By J. Scott Orr
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