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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
Red-painted museum building exterior with a small tree in front, a wooden door, and visitors walking by.

Two Houses, One Legend: A New Museum Shows Another Side of Frida Kahlo

By Jordan Riefe
An altar-like wooden cabinet combines expressive painted panels and handmade puppets arranged in a theatrical tableau against a black wall.

One Fine Show: “Paula Rego, Dance Among Thorns” at MUNCH in Oslo

By Dan Duray
A painter stands in a studio surrounded by large, brightly colored abstract canvases.

50 Years of Groundbreaking Work: Kunstmuseum Basel Puts Helen Frankenthaler Front and Center

By Dian Parker
A print of an etching of the entombment of Jesus

From Midnight Casts to Authorized Editions: Understanding the Market for Posthumously Produced Art

By Daniel Grant
A person with short gray-streaked hair and glasses sits on the floor in front of a staged storefront installation featuring signs for “psychic readings” and a neon hand-and-eye symbol behind a barred window.

Nick Doyle’s “Mirror, Mirror” Turns the American Dream Inside Out

By Elisa Carollo
A highly detailed silver sculpture resembling a human face, displayed on a white pedestal in a circular, ornately carved wooden hall with additional busts on stands in the background.

Barry X Ball Connects the Secular and Sacred in “The Shape of Time”

By Madeleine Seidel
A grid of torn black-and-white portraits is repaired with thin gold lines.

Don’t Miss: Giles Duley’s “Distortion / Memory / Resilience” at Sutton Tower

By Kinvara Balfour
A monumental red abstract sculpture with a curled, organic top rises from the floor in a minimalist white gallery.

A Major Martin Puryear Retrospective Reveals an Artist Who Has Never Stopped Evolving

By Anthony Paletta
A crowded Future Fair aisle shows visitors moving between gallery booths displaying paintings and sculptural works.

Artists to Watch: Future Fair and 1-54’s Best Discoveries

By Elisa Carollo

Painter Renée Levin’s Unhurried Eye

By Xinyi Ye
An art fair booth

Five Works That Stole the Show at Frieze New York

By Dan Duray
A white-walled booth displays Kelly Tapia-Chuning’s textile works, including four wall-hung pieces and a central floor installation.

NADA New York Opens With Fewer Early Sales But Plenty of Potential

By Elisa Carollo
A large Gerhard Richter artwork featuring thick red and orange abstract paint layers framing a photograph-like gallery scene with two older visitors walking through an exhibition space.

Gerhard Richter, Franz Kline and the Art Marian Goodman Never Let Go

By Dan Duray
A glowing jellyfish-like sculpture is installed in front of a carved wooden fireplace beside a grand staircase inside the Estonian House.

As New York’s Art Week Kicks Off, Here’s What Not to Miss at Esther III

By Elisa Carollo
A painting shows several figures on a ship deck looking out at the sea through windows, including a child and a woman holding a glass, suggesting a moment during a journey.

Archie Rand On the Irreducibility of Painting in a Digital Age

By Elisa Carollo
A selfie taken courtside shows two smiling women seated among a packed arena crowd, with spectators closely lined in rows behind them during a live game.

Why Sports Venues Are Betting Big on Fine Art

By Daniel Grant
A loosely rendered still life painting featuring a tabletop with a jar, bottle, and bright orange fruit set against soft, layered fields of color.

The Exacting Nuance of Richard Diebenkorn

By Dian Parker
An installation view of Giuseppe Penone’s exhibition featuring a monumental wall covered in bark-like brown panels punctuated by turquoise sculptural forms, with a tree-like bronze sculpture suspended over a stone base in the center of the gallery.

10 Ambitious Gallery Shows to See in New York

By Elisa Carollo
Paintings and sculptural busts by Edouard Duval-Carrié are displayed against vivid blue walls in an installation exploring Haitian vodou cosmologies and colonial history at the Venice Biennale.

Koyo Kouoh’s Venice Biennale Looks to Ancient Wisdom to Mend a Fractured Present

By Elisa Carollo
A man in a striped shirt stands at a podium in front of a screen displaying a purple cake.

Trust-Based Funding Works. So Why Are Artists Still Living in Precarity?

By Mary Jane Edwards
A large installation of suspended geometric structures made from colorful venetian blinds and metal frames hangs throughout a high-ceilinged gallery space illuminated with pink and orange light.

One Fine Show: “Haegue Yang, Star-Crossed Rendezvous” at LA MOCA

By Dan Duray
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