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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

The exhibition focuses on the period when the artist used concentrated sources of light to create atmosphere and build anticipation.
By Simon Coates
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

In conversation with Observer, the artist reflects on her first solo museum exhibition in the United States, which she says was shaped by trust, time and creative freedom.
By Dan Duray
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

The exhibition makes the case that this relatively mellow artist should stand shoulder to shoulder with his crazier peers.
By Dan Duray
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
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 large painting of several men standing beside a white car on a city street, with pigeons flying overhead and graffiti on the background wall.

Devin B. Johnson Paints the Space Between Memory and Motion

By Elisa Carollo
An exhibition view shows a brightly lit white gallery filled with colorful paintings and watercolors, including large canvases and a wall covered with a grid of smaller works.

Tracing the Origins of Emma Kohlmann’s Arcane Figures

By Caitlin Anklam
A three-panel painting framed together, showing a crouching humanoid figure on orange, a realistic fish in the center, and a long eel-like creature with a small face on the right.

Izumi Kato’s Hybrid Totemic Forms Trace Possible Paths of Ecological Survival

By Elisa Carollo
An oil painting shows a young boy wearing a large brown hat and loose tan clothing, holding a cracked egg in one hand while pinching his nose with the other, his expression suggesting the egg smells unpleasant.

One Fine Show: ‘Michaelina Wautier, Painter’ at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna

By Dan Duray

Repeating Patterns: How Artist Eamon Ore-Giron Is Keeping Ancient Deities Alive

By Mya Ward
A densely detailed still life painting shows an overflowing arrangement of flowers, fruits, and plants—such as tulips, peonies, grapes, peaches, and pomegranates—intermixed with insects and small animals, illustrating the abundance and scientific precision characteristic of Rachel Ruysch’s work.

Rachel Ruysch’s Tirade of Beauty at Boston’s MFA

By Dian Parker
ChatGPT said: A woman stands in her studio wearing a maroon jacket with paintbrushes and tools on a table in front of her, and a large red abstract painting behind her.

Recorded Dreams: Inside Portia Zvavahera’s Hypnotic Visions

By Farah Abdessamad

Reevaluating Rose Hilton

By Ruth Millington
A large painting of women with flowing hair arranged in a circular formation dominates a white gallery wall.

In Hayv Kahraman’s ‘Ghost Fires,’ Grief Becomes a Living Ritual

By Elisa Carollo
A painting of a boxing scene showing a shirtless fighter sitting in his corner, surrounded by a group of men tending to him with towels and water. The dimly lit background emphasizes the fighter’s weary expression and the intensity of the moment, with deep blues and oranges adding dramatic contrast.

Ludovic Nkoth Probes What It Means to Be Part of History at MASSIMODECARLO

By Elisa Carollo
Rahul Kadakia, Christie's newly appointed President, Asia Pacific, auctioning Pablo Picasso's Buste de femme for HK$196,750,000 / US$25,404,911 during the 20th / 21st Century Evening Sale in Hong

Picasso’s ‘Buste de femme’ Leads the Hong Kong Auctions at HK$196M With Robust Results Across Houses

By Elisa Carollo
A softly lit painting by Georges de La Tour shows two women gazing in reverence at a swaddled infant glowing with radiant light, evoking a nativity scene without overt religious symbols.

At Musée Jacquemart-André, Georges de La Tour’s Light Shines Brightly

By Sarah Moroz
A 1979 painting by Kim Tschang-Yeul showing clusters of hyperrealistic golden water drops scattered across raw linen, some merging into darker stains that suggest both presence and disappearance.

Kim Tschang-yeul’s Water Droplets Flow Through Eternity at MMCA Seoul

By Elisa Carollo
A closer view of the expansive horizontal textile piece shifting from white through blues and greens into deep purples and black.

At Sean Kelly, Anthony Akinbola’s Bold Exploration of Medium and Metaphor

By Elisa Carollo
A painting of two people standing in a farmer's field at sunset

One Fine Show: “Millet, Life on the Land” at The National Gallery in London

By Dan Duray
Artist standing in a paint-splattered studio between two large canvases, one red with a crouching figure and the other blue with a submerged face.

In Elizabeth Glaessner’s “Running Water,” Bodies Become Myths in Flux

By Elisa Carollo
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