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Frieze New York 2021 Seems Poised to Revitalize Enthusiasm for In-Person Art...
We all know what happened last year: virtually every massive art fair on the global circuit was shut down due to the coronavirus, leaving parent companies and organizers to scramble to put together...
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KAWS is Taking His ‘Companion’ Hot Air Balloon Around the World Later This Year
The artist KAWS occupies a unique spot in the art world. Regularly commanding huge prices at auction and popping up in the residences of famous celebrity collectors the world over, the artist’s...
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JR Will Launch His Next Project at the Iconic Pyramids in Giza
The globally famous French artist JR has been particularly prolific within the last couple of years, and now, the ambitious creative has a new project on the horizon: JR announced that he’ll be...
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The KAWS: HOLIDAY World Tour Has Run Into Legal Trouble
The KAWS:Holiday showcase in Singapore has run into legal trouble, new reports indicate. Over the weekend, the non-profit arts organization The Ryan Foundation served a court order in an attempt to...
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KAWS Is Suing Homeless Penthouse for Allegedly Selling Fake Works
During a week in which the “KAWS:HOLIDAY” tour has already been enmeshed in legal trouble, the artist is also taking the step to file a lawsuit against several different websites that KAWS says are...
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Miami’s Art Scene Heats Up With a New Space from Collector John Marquez
With one foot in real estate development and the other in Michelin-star sushi restaurants, John Marquez has long been a jack of all trades. Now, the Miami resident is entering the art world with the...
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Jane Dickson Explores the Promises We Keep and the Time We Save
Exiting Karma in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, the street is transformed into one of the noir dreamscapes of Jane Dickson’s paintings. It’s fitting, as the gallery is showing her latest collection, “The...
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A Guide to All the February Art Fairs
Through up markets and down markets, the proliferation of contemporary art fairs is ongoing. Fair fatigue is real—gallery staff can spend ninety days each year on the road—but what’s the alternative?...
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A Guide to All the March Art Fairs
A whiff of spring is in the air, though for many of us, the temperature outside still makes indoor activities more palatable. The February art fairs have mostly come and gone—thankfully the calendar of...
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Christie’s Post-War to Present Sale Led by Cy Twombly Netted $21.5m
Last week, the March contemporary art auctions at Christie’s in New York brought few surprises but some notable sales. In the “Contemporary Edition: New York” auction, Sol LeWitt’s Irregular Zig Zag...
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Inside YoungArts’ New York Gala in the Met’s Magical Temple of Dendur
This past Monday, a mix of cultural and philanthropic luminaries gathered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to raise funds for YoungArts at the foundation’s annual gala. Emceed by Grammy- and...
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Edible Pearls and Red Carpet Parrots: A Look Inside MoMA PS1’s 2024 Gala and...
Earlier this week, curators, collectors, gallerists, artists, philanthropists and a range of cultural influencers from New York and beyond gathered in MoMA PS1’s open-air courtyard for the...
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One Fine Show: ‘Keith Haring: Art is for Everybody’ at the Walker Art Center
Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum outside of New York City—a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. The next time...
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Midsummer Magic at Parrish Art Museum: Dinner, Dancing and the Sagaponack...
Parrish Art Museum’s two-day Midsummer Dance and Dinner is a major highlight of the summer season for the cultural set. Benefit it may be—and indeed, this year raised more than a million bucks for...
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Eighteen Newly Announced Artist Commissions Will Enhance JFK’s Terminal 6
Since its redevelopment kicked off in 2016, LaGuardia Airport has gone from eyesore to aviation art hub. Travelers passing through LGA encounter several large-scale art installations, including a...
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Could The Andy Warhol Museum’s Pop District Offer a Blueprint for Museum...
Museums around the world are working hard to find ways to overcome challenges related to audience growth and engagement, and the strategies they’re landing on are diverse: creating new people-focused...
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Seoul’s ‘Paradise City’ Is an Unexpected Art Destination
Gambling is illegal in South Korea, a country that strives to curb socially dangerous addictions. However, as with most places with such prohibitions, there are exceptions. Here, that exception is...
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‘Party of Life’ Is a Celebration of Warhol, Haring and 1980s New York City in...
If recent news is any measure (see: Brad Gooch’s Keith Haring biography released in March, Uniqlo’s Andy Warhol x KAWS collab and the family suing a Miami art gallery over fake Warhols), it’s clear...
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Observer’s Guide to the Must-See Shows During Paris Art Week
Since Brexit and the aftermath of the pandemic, Paris has experienced a surge of galleries and art players relocating to or setting up shop in the city. The arrival of Art Basel—now officially...
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KAWS On Mao, Death, Monsters and His Nobu Tequila Collab
KAWS never planned to spend an early October weekend at Nobu Downtown. On Saturday, the artist Brian Donnelly—more widely known as KAWS—closed out the downstairs dining room with graffiti legend and...
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