Installation view: “The Print Generation” at the National Museum of Asian Art. National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Photo by Colleen Dugan Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum not in New York City, a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. … Read more
René Magritte, L’empire des lumières, 1949. CHRISTIE’S IMAGES LTD. 2025 An “anthology of 20th-century masterpieces” is coming to Christie’s, courtesy of art collector Louise Riggio, widow of the late bookstore entrepreneur Leonard Riggio of Barnes & Noble fame. Why now? Simply put, it’s time to downsize, Louise Riggio told the New York Times. Leonard passed … Read more
Felix Art Fair opened on Wednesday, February 19, at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Felix Art Fair Nobody would have predicted, just a month ago, that L.A. would rally back with such force for this year’s Los Angeles Art Week, especially after last month’s devastating fires. Yet on Tuesday, February 19, the art world gathered at … Read more
Sally Mann, Cindy and Reeses Pieces (At Twelve), 1983-1985; Signed, dated, and editioned in pencil verso, 8 x 10-inch silver gelatin print. Edition of 25. Copyright the artist, Jackson Fine Art and Gagosian Before visiting this exhibition, my mind was primed for a certain interpretation of it. The recent federal moves to erase bodily autonomy … Read more
The Other Art Fair Chicago in 2024. Courtesy The Other Art Fair Unlike last year, the imminent arrival of March has brought no hint of spring. We’re still very much mired in winter—at least here in the northeast where Observer is headquartered. Meanwhile in L.A., where the weather is warmer but the air quality is … Read more
The Gochman Family Collection in situ on the Upper East Side in New York. The Gochman Family | Photo: Tyson Houseman In just four years, the Gochman Family Collection has assembled one of the most significant holdings of works by contemporary Indigenous artists and creatives. Conceived as a private lending collection rather than a self-congratulatory … Read more
We live in the age of the podcast; it feels like everyone has one, from celebrities with their massive Spotify deals to local comedians and chefs. When it comes to the art world, the best podcasts offer more than chatty curators sitting down with their favorite artists. The art podcasting scene is growing, and we’re … Read more
Amy Scherald’s Untitled in Center City Philadelphia. © 2019 City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program / Amy Sherald, 1108 Sansom Street. Photo by Steve Weinik. It may simply be the fate of public art to become invisible over time. That big sculpture in the city park, so lauded when it was first installed years ago, … Read more
Artists from around the world, including Mary Bourne, are transforming a secluded Norwegian island into a museum where landscapes become works of art. ©Land Art Museum The Land Art Museum emerged from a vision of a museum without walls, where both art and nature can coexist. By transforming an entire island into an open-air museum, … Read more
Left: Dan Flavin, untitled (to Karin and Walther); Right: Dan Flavin, untitled (to Thordis and Heiner). Courtesy Dia Art Foundation © 2025 Stephen Flavin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Light into Space, Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre India Art Fair concluded last week in New Delhi, highlighting a growing collector community eager to … Read more