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Professional portrait of Observer Arts Reporter Elisa Carollo

Elisa Carollo

Arts Reporter

Elisa Carollo is an art writer, art advisor and curator with a focus on contemporary and ultra-contemporary art. With over a decade in the art business at different levels between secondary and primary market, as well as engaging institutions and Biennales, she covers the latest from the Art World and Art Market for Obsever.

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  • Elisa Carollo
  • @elisartgal
Older man in a dark suit and red tie seated before a large, colorful abstract painting.

Collector Dick Hedreen Has Sold Artworks Before, But This Time the Proceeds Will Build a Museum

By Elisa Carollo
A green-patinated bronze figure with a fragmented female body kneels on a pedestal while holding up a reflective object in leafy City Hall Park.

Genesis Belanger’s Classically Inspired Public Art Is a Commentary on Modern-Day Unease

By Elisa Carollo
A circular, terraced building with layered horizontal bands and integrated greenery rises against a clear blue sky, viewed from a pedestrian walkway.

MoN Takanawa: The Museum of Narratives Is Experientially Compelling But Curatorially Thin

By Elisa Carollo
A street-level view of the PARKSEOBO MUSEUM, showing its dark blue-green geometric facade, exposed concrete base and white upper volumes against a clear blue sky.

Seoul’s ParkSeoBo Museum Is More Than a Temple to Its Namesake

By Elisa Carollo
A pink car with anime characters

Sales at Tokyo Gendai Reflect an Evolving Market Surprisingly Resistant to Trend-Chasing

By Elisa Carollo
A portrait of Gayane Umerova standing with her arms crossed against warm-toned brick walls, wearing a cream blouse and beige trousers.

How Gayane Umerova Is Shepherding Uzbekistan’s Cultural Transformation

By Elisa Carollo
A man wearing clear-framed glasses and a dark work jacket holding a roughly carved wooden sculptural head in an art-filled studio.

Tom Sachs Recreated Chanel’s Paris Flagship Out of Plywood and Paint in Chinatown

By Elisa Carollo
A wide installation view of the 16th Gwangju Biennale showing paintings, sculptures and a sprawling translucent orange floor installation across a large industrial gallery.

Intentionally Smaller and Slower, the 16th Gwangju Biennale Traces a Path of Change

By Elisa Carollo
Tom Wesselmann’s Nude Banner (1969), depicting a reclining pink female nude beneath a large blue star, with red flowers and a black tabletop behind her

Marian Goodman’s Multiples, Inc. Banners to Resurface at New York’s Independent 20th Century

By Elisa Carollo
Two visitors view contemporary paintings installed against pale blue curtains, with a colorful textile-covered bench in the foreground.

Why Japan’s Art Market Is Growing Steadily Even as Other Markets Stall

By Elisa Carollo
Design Miami at Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul.

Can Seoul Art Week Sustain More Fairs? PAVILION and Design Miami Say Yes.

By Elisa Carollo
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