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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
A painting by Wayne Thiebaud from 1961 titled Pie Rows shows more than twenty slices of pie—some topped with whipped cream, some fruit-filled—arranged in neat rows on individual white plates across a blue and white tabletop.

At the Courtauld, Wayne Thiebaud’s Poignant—if Long-Vanished—America

By Sarah Moroz
An auctioneer, Oliver Barker, stands at the Sotheby’s podium with his arms raised while taking bids in a crowded auction room. Behind him is a large projected screen showing Gustav Klimt’s Bildnis Elisabeth Lederer with a bid of 205 million USD, and the actual painting hangs on the wall to his right. Audience members photograph the moment with their phones.

Sotheby’s Shatters Records at Its Breuer Debut as a $236.4M Klimt Leads the $706M Evening Sale

By Elisa Carollo
A wide view of the gallery reveals an expansive canopy of intertwined branches suspended from the ceiling with several heavy sculptural forms hanging low over the concrete floor.

Adrián Villar Rojas On Time, Decay and the Fragile Afterlife of Art

By Elisa Carollo
A stylized painting depicts a reclining nude pregnant woman covered partly by a green cloth, a small child pulls at his umbilical cord near her, and an audience of people watching from below. The scene uses geometric forms and muted earthy colors.

At Perrotin, Painter Danielle Orchard Makes an Allegory of Matrescence

By Mya Ward
Two expansive figurative paintings filled with crowd-like clusters of nude figures in swirling, smoky colors face each other in a dim gallery.

Don’t Miss: Eva Helene Pade’s Choreography of Color and Desire at Thaddaeus Ropac

By Elisa Carollo
Two paintings hang side by side on a white wall—a small grayscale work of a silhouetted figure on the left and a larger painting of two faceless figures embracing in red and gray tones, with geometric framing and bands of color.

Jo Fish Confronts the Tension Between Flesh and Data in a World of Visual Saturation

By Elisa Carollo
A wide multi-panel painting is composed of vertical columns of hand-painted horizontal stripes in earthy reds, browns, purples and whites.

Cultural Memory and the Concept of Country in “Emily Kam Kngwarray” at Tate Modern

By Simon Coates
A wide view of Paula Cooper Gallery’s main room shows four large abstract oil paintings by Jay DeFeo hanging on white walls under a high wooden ceiling with exposed beams. The concrete floor reflects the muted light, emphasizing the tension between the dark, moody compositions and the open, minimal space.

Five Groundbreaking Postwar Women Artists Lead New York’s Fall Art Season

By Elisa Carollo
An installation view of a gallery filled with empty birdcages of different sizes and colors hanging from thick ropes, with two blurred figures walking among them on a wooden floor.

Kader Attia’s Poetics of Repair in “Shattering and Gathering our Traces”

By Elisa Carollo
A portrait of two people standing side by side in dark suits before a wall of colorful paintings depicting Filipino nurses, part of their collaborative exhibition at the Queens Museum.

Abang-Guard Talk Labor, Legacy and “Makibaka” at the Queens Museum

By Dan Duray
A close-up view of a person’s bare feet entangled in red and white plastic tubing, evoking vulnerability and physical connection.

Chiharu Shiota Weaves Historical Memory, Body and Belonging in “Two Home Countries”

By Elisa Carollo
Rember Yahuarcani’s vivid nocturnal composition where human, insect, and animal forms merge in motion across glowing red and violet bands, evoking mythic continuities between earthly and spiritual realms.

Rember Yahuarcani On Wielding Paint as a Tool of Cultural Preservation and Resistance

By Elisa Carollo
A man wearing a white robe and headscarf rides a motorbike across a desert landscape, carrying a large stack of weathered satellite dishes on the back of the vehicle.

The Art of Transmission: How Hiba Baddou Reimagines Moroccan Futurity

By Bernard Dayo
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Why Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Is Good for the Art World (But Some Are Still Panicking)

By The Art Daddy
A glossy black glass sculpture shaped like a hemisphere sits on a pedestal, with two smaller matching dome forms beside it, reflecting light in a dimly lit gallery.

Nika Neelova On “UMBRA” and the Death of Linear Time

By Naima Morelli
A black and white photo of two young boys seated side by side in a living room decorated with patterned curtains and a plane hanging from the ceiling

Zofia Rydet’s Attempt to Photograph Every Home in Poland Is at The Photographers’ Gallery

By Henry Roberts
An artwork consisting of two beer cans painted and set on a plaque

One Fine Show: “Five Friends” at Museum Ludwig in Köln

By Dan Duray
A collage of two ceramic animal statues set in a grid with a gradiant background

How Artist Alake Shilling Gives Kitsch a Conscience

By Mya Ward
Installation view of “DOKU! DOKU! DOKU!: samsara.exe” at Amant Foundation, featuring Lu Yang’s DOKU avatar projected in a metallic, scroll-lined environment.

Lu Yang’s Convergence of Technology and Spirituality at Amant

By Elisa Carollo
A man sits in a studio beside large abstract paintings with earthy tones of white, gray, and brown, suggesting a setting where the artist reflects amid his own works exploring the relationship between movement and stillness.

Shen Wei On “STILL / MOVING” and Finding Harmony Across Disciplines

By Caedra Scott-Flaherty
A wall installation of eleven colorful paintings and one dark relief sculpture depicts fantastical winged figures and glowing landscapes arranged in a loose cluster.

Don’t Miss: Alejandro García Contreras in Dialogue with Bolesław Biegas and Gustave Moreau in Paris

By Elisa Carollo
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