Observer’s Top Five Pieces Not to Miss at the 2025 Armory Show This year, the art isn't bad at all—in fact, there's a lot to love. By Dan Duray
‘Hidden Master’ Rightfully Places George Platt Lynes in the American Photography Canon Lynes lasting influence was largely overlooked because he worked in the wrong place at the wrong time. By Angelica Frey
An Escape to Paul Cadmus and H.D.’s Beautiful Queer Beach In the case of both the poet and the artist, it is this thrusting of their own complex, “problematic” (for their times) personhood out into the elements that contributes most forcefully to their modernity. Their complexity. By Mike McClelland
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