Observer’s 2026 June Art Fair Calendar Here's (almost) everything happening on the art fair circuit this June. By Christa Terry
From Standing Ovations to Surprise DJ Sets: Inside the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s 2026 BAM Ball The Brooklyn Academy of Music has never been conventional, and the same can be said of its much-anticipated, always surprising spring benefit gala. By Christa Terry
Charles Chemin Has Been Training to Lead Watermill His Whole Life "I feel lucky. To prolong a 42-year-long, almost filial relation and 33 years of work companionship in a form of artistic dialogue beyond death is a chance that very few people get." By Dan Duray
Off-Grid, Asleep or Unreachable: When Nobel Prize Winners Miss the Call of a Lifetime By Rachel Curry
The Met Opera’s ‘Pelléas et Mélisande’ Conjures a Disturbing Vision of the Downside of Love By James Jorden
The Art World’s Summer Bacchanalia: A Photo History of Robert Wilson’s Watermill Gala By Ryan Steadman
Out Where the Better Half Summers: The Art World Makes Its Annual Hamptons Pilgrimage By Nate Freeman
Catch Three Minutes of ‘Robert Wilson Video Portraits’ in Times Square Every Night! (Video) By Drew Grant