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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
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An exterior installation view shows a multicolored carpet flowing out of a doorway onto a stone courtyard in front of a weathered building façade with barred windows.

Faig Ahmed Weaves Azerbaijan’s Past Into Its Future in Venice

By Elisa Carollo
An editorial-style salmon-pink illustration shows a hand touching a glowing “AI” microchip, with circuit lines spreading outward into cultural and heritage symbols including a classical column, sculpture bust, amphora, manuscript, museum building, theater mask, framed painting and film reel.

UNESCO’s A.I. Report Considers How Technology Can Serve Culture

By Elisa Carollo
A monumental translucent white fabric sculpture with long tentacle-like extensions hangs beneath the glass roof of the Grand Palais, filling the nave with a ghostly, jellyfish-like presence.

At the Grand Palais, Laure Prouvost Translates Quantum Physics Into Something You Can Feel

By Elisa Carollo
An artist stands in a studio beside large red sculptural forms, with shelves of materials, cardboard boxes and tall windows behind her.

At Lisson Gallery, Kelly Akashi Gives Resilience Form

By Elisa Carollo
A moody interior at The Future Perfect shows a brown sofa facing a wall of garden-facing windows, with sculptural objects outside and several low tables with patchwork-style surfaces in the foreground.

The Future Perfect’s Laura Young Makes the Case for Design as the Next Collecting Frontier

By Elisa Carollo
A dim installation space shows a red-framed window set into a brick wall, with small hanging lights casting shadow patterns across the floor and walls.

Kingsley Ng and Angel Hui’s “Fermata” Brings the Rhythms of Hong Kong to Venice

By Elisa Carollo
An auctioneer stands at a Phillips podium during a crowded sale as a large screen displays Andy Warhol’s Sixteen Jackies alongside bidding figures in multiple currencies.

Phillips’s CEO Martin Wilson On What the House’s $507 Million Spring Reveals About the Market

By Elisa Carollo
A male tennis player in a black shirt and white shorts stretches across a blue hard court to hit a forehand as a yellow tennis ball approaches his racquet.

The Most Valuable Tennis Memorabilia Ever Sold at Auction

By Elisa Carollo
Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Councilwoman Julie Menin announced the 2027 fiscal year budget in a Tuesday press conference.

Zohran Mamdani’s Culture Budget Is Historic, But New York Needs a Broader Plan for Protecting Artists and the Arts

By Elisa Carollo
A group of ten people stands in a line on a sunny New York sidewalk outside a glass-fronted building, with reflections of the Bowery visible behind them.

Stefanie Hessler’s Vision for Swiss Institute’s New Permanent Bowery Home

By Elisa Carollo
A woman stands in a burgundy-walled gallery between a colorful landscape painting, thorn-like wooden sculptures and another partial painting visible at the right edge.

Anoushka Mirchandani On the Body as Personal and Familial Archive

By Elisa Carollo
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