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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.

Luigi Bonotto plays a white chess set with Yoko Ono, who wears a red hat, as photographers gather around them in a crowded room.

A Tribute to Luigi Bonotto, the Visionary Fluxus Patron Who Merged Art, Life and Industry

Bonotto believed strongly that “technique is essential, but technique without culture is empty.”
By Elisa Carollo
A cluttered workspace with a table and many shelves crammed with objects of all kinds

Wes Anderson Recreates Joseph Cornell’s Utopia Parkway Studio in Paris

A Gagosian installation translates Cornell’s secluded, obsessive working habits into a street-level experience that echoes the logic and poetry of his shadowboxes.
By Jordan Riefe
A gallery with multiple large-scale projections showing animated scenes from Lawrence Lek’s NOX series. In the center sits a modular concrete-like pavilion of tiled benches and vertical supports, lit from below with warm LEDs that accent the structure.

At the Bass in Miami, Lawrence Lek’s Odyssey for an Era Shaped by A.I.

The artist’s sentient autonomous cars are endowed with intelligence but stripped of agency, drifting through a ruined society in the throes of burnout, anxiety and existential dislocation.
By Elisa Carollo
An indoor gathering in An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump shows a scientist operating a glass air pump containing a bird while adults and children react with curiosity and distress under dramatic, focused light.

Joseph Wright of Derby’s Theater of Enlightenment at London’s National Gallery

By Simon Coates
A gallery installation view shows multiple ceramic works arranged on the walls and two large ceramic sculptures on white pedestals, all illuminated by overhead spotlights on wooden floors. If you'd prefer these written in your Observer alt-text style (more concise, more atmosphe

Samuel Sarmiento’s Ceramics Channel Universal Memory in His U.S. Debut

By Elisa Carollo
A black and white photo of an asian woman sitting in a museum installation

One Fine Show: “Yoko Ono, Music of the Mind” at MCA Chicago

By Dan Duray
An artist stands in a studio space in front of two oversized, brightly colored abstract paintings, with clamps and stacked wooden boards arranged on the floor in front of her as part of an ongoing work process.

How Uman Channeled a Turbulent Year Into Calm Abstraction

By Dan Duray
A bar cart shaped like a hippo, with several panels open to reveal the compartments holding bottles and glassware

François-Xavier Lalanne’s ‘Hippopotame Bar’ Sets a New Auction Record for the Artist

By Christa Terry
Another angle of the exhibition, highlighting the whimsical ceramic sculptures arranged on pedestals and a wooden table. The figures, with oversized heads and soft features, are displayed alongside vibrant paintings on the wall, creating a dialogue between sculpture and painting in a spacious, minimal gallery setting.

Otani Workshop’s Invitation to Revisit the Unfiltered Imagination of Early Life

By Elisa Carollo
A large triangular mirrored structure filled with colorful book spines stands on the sand at the edge of the ocean at sunset, surrounded by a circular platform glowing with soft light.

Es Devlin’s ‘Library of Us’ Was the Rare Miami Art Week Spectacle That Invited Quiet Contemplation

By Elisa Carollo
Wide gallery view of Jorge Pardo’s show at Petzel Gallery with layered hanging lamps and vibrant abstract canvases creating a luminous environment.

How Jorge Pardo Turns Light, Color and Form into a Phenomenology of Seeing

By Elisa Carollo
A framed painting shows hooded figures gathered around a bed-like structure with animal-human characters and symbolic objects, reflecting Carrington’s surreal staged rituals.

Curtains and Cauldrons: The Delicate Politics of Exhibiting Leonora Carrington

By Guia Cortassa
A gallery view shows several framed abstract drawings on a wall behind an arrangement of oversized brown folding chairs and tables, illustrating Robert Therrien’s use of everyday domestic forms at exaggerated scale.

Robert Therrien’s Ordinary Uncanny at the Broad in L.A.

By Jordan Riefe
A textured abstract painting composed of dense, interlocking blocks and brushstrokes of color, dominated by greens, yellows, and earthy tones, with touches of turquoise, lavender, and red. The thickly applied paint creates a mosaic-like surface with visible ridges and cracks. Vertical and horizontal forms intersect throughout the composition, giving the impression of an abstracted cityscape or layered foliage. The work is displayed in a simple white frame against a light-colored wall.

The Early Experiments of Manoucher Yektai

By Mya Ward
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The Aerosol Awakening: Shepard Fairey On Street Art’s Infiltration of Miami Art Week

By J. Scott Orr
An impressionist painting featuring a tall white stucco house on the right and a dirt lane on the left flanked by short flowering plants and a tall hedge

One Fine Show: “Camille Pissarro’s Impressionism” at the Denver Art Museum

By Dan Duray
Hundreds of thin white cords hang densely from the ceiling in straight vertical lines, converging toward a bright central grid of lights and creating a dramatic tunnel-like visual effect.

Don’t Miss These Five Museum-Grade Works in Art Basel Miami Beach’s Meridians Sector

By Elisa Carollo
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Will the Latest Basquiat Biopic Hew to History? Al Diaz Has His Doubts

By J. Scott Orr
An art exhibition in a wide concrete gallery featuring three pickup trucks in a line: one green, one red, one blue.

Gagosian’s Kara Vander Weg On Shaping the Afterlife of an Artist’s Work

By Dan Duray
A man wearing a white conical hat stands with his forehead pressed against a blank wall while a video camera on a tripod records him from across an empty room, creating a scene of deliberate absurdity characteristic of Erwin Olaf’s April Fool images.

Hans van Manen Remembers Photographer Erwin Olaf

By Nicolas Vamvouklis
An image shows a group of thirteen women standing barefoot in a field under a cloudy sky, wearing traditional skirts and head coverings while lifting their blouses to expose their chests as one woman kneels in front of them, performing a ritual featured in Balkan Erotic Epic.

Marina Abramovic’s Erotic Epic Spreads Wide (and Displays the Limits of) the Artist’s Psyche

By Adam Robb
A man wearing gloves and a black shirt drags a tool through thick black and white paint on a large canvas covered in abstract, textured strokes.

An Interview with Anselm Kiefer, Iconoclastic Alchemist

By Dian Parker
A figurative painting is displayed at the center of an empty wooden shelving unit inside a warmly lit room.

Tomasz Kowalski Digs Into the Psychic Archeology of Light in Paris

By Elisa Carollo
An artist wearing a cap and gray sweater leans over a large oil-paint printer machine as she works on a printed portrait in her studio.

The Algorithm Thinks You’re Ugly: An Interview With Artist Gretchen Andrew

By Mieke Marple
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