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Dan Duray

Dan Duray is a writer in Brooklyn whose work has appeared in The Guardian, Vanity Fair, Bookforum, The Baffler, The Economist, W magazine, and Town & Country, among other publications.

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An immersive digital museum installation

Museum of Tomorrow’s Fábio Scarano On Rethinking Science Through Art and Redefining Institutional Purpose

By Dan Duray
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 large mixed-media textile work combining painted and woven sections, including ghostly figures set against an earth-from-space backdrop, hangs from a wooden beam.

Five Pieces That Quietly Stole the Show at Art Basel Miami Beach 2025

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

By Dan Duray
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
An image of Anselm Kiefer’s large mixed-media painting Missouri, Mississippi (2024), showing a map-like upper panel with a reclining female figure embedded in river forms and a lower panel depicting a dark dam structure rising above turbulent green water.

One Fine Show: “Anselm Kiefer, Becoming the Sea” at the Saint Louis Art Museum

By Dan Duray
A portrait of Anthony Kiendl shows him smiling and leaning against a wooden railing on an outdoor terrace, dressed in a dark suit and glasses, with a blurred urban skyline in the background.

Anthony Kiendl On Unlocking MCA Denver’s Potential and Upending Art World Hierarchies

By Dan Duray
ChatGPT said:An artwork shows the silhouette of a woman standing beside a chain railing and looking out over a moonlit lake, with rippling water reflecting bright light and a house with two glowing windows visible across the shore.

One Fine Show: “Strange Realities, The Symbolist Imagination” at the Art Institute of Chicago

By Dan Duray
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

Observer’s 2025 Art Power Index: The Art Market’s Most Influential People

By The Editors, Christa Terry, Dan Duray, Elisa Carollo, Farah Abdessamad and Merin Curotto
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