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Reviews, commentary, news and interviews with and about the artists who influence every corner of the art market. Visit our Artist Index to browse all artists Observer has chronicled over the last 30+ years.

A bearded man in a gray suit stands beside an older woman in a blue dress in front of bookshelves, both making exaggerated facial expressions in a video still.

Ragnar Kjartansson Makes the Familiar Strange at Buffalo AKG Art Museum

"Politics of the Obvious," part of the AKG Art Museum's initiative devoted to art from the Nordic region, centers on works that stretch familiar gestures until hidden scripts appear. Two decades of Kjartansson’s video, performance and music reveal how fragile masculinity, capitalism and our own convictions really are.
By Elisa Carollo
A portrait of Dindga McCannon smiling on a New York street, wearing a wide-brimmed straw hat and a colorful garment printed with women’s faces.

Dindga McCannon Has Been Stitching Black History into the American Art Canon for 60 Years

Fridman Gallery's survey of the Harlem-born artist brings together quilts, paintings and prints from the 1970s to today, grouped by affinity rather than chronology. The works show how her blend of fabric, found objects and paint was ahead of its time and remains strikingly current.
By Elisa Carollo
A portrait of an artist standing in his studio between two large colorful paintings, one depicting oversized paintbrushes and the other a tall red drink in an interior setting.

Kristof Santy Would Rather Trust Objective Reality than Reach for Eve’s Apple

The self-taught Belgian painter's new exhibition at Sorry We're Closed in Brussels turns flea-market finds, folk imagery and everyday objects into saturated, strangely affecting still lifes. In conversation with Observer, he talks about his factory work, his debt to Philip Guston and why he resists symbolism.
By Christa Terry
A seated man wearing glasses and a blue shirt poses in a white gallery surrounded by colorful landscape paintings by Scott Kahn.

At David Zwirner New York, Scott Kahn’s Landscapes Open Windows Onto Other Worlds

By Elisa Carollo
Nobel Peace Prize laureate, US President

The Nobel Prize Diploma’s Century Long Artistic History

By Christa Terry
An artist in a studio positioning two large black-and-white figurative paintings against a broader mural-like composition filled with palm trees and splattered marks.

Antonio Romero’s Paintings Are Reflections of the Shadows of Power

By Elisa Carollo
A woman walks through a field of golden wheat in Lower Manhattan, with the World Trade Center towers and surrounding skyline visible in the background.

Five Artists Who Treat the Earth as Both Medium and Beneficiary

By Mary Gregory
A person sits on a stool in an artist’s studio surrounded by large paintings depicting interiors and lush outdoor views.

Constantin Nitsche Wrestles with the Limits of Painting

By Sarah Moroz
A portrait of artist Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka wearing a mustard halter top, posed in front of a large black-and-white abstract artwork.

Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka Found a Blueprint for Survival in Ancestral Ways of Making

By Elisa Carollo
A man stands beside an immersive wooden installation featuring oversized carved leaves, sculptural furniture and Hermès accessories against olive-green walls.

Raul De Lara’s Sculptures Ask What Separates Raw Material, Medium and Meaning

By Elisa Carollo

Jeff Koons On Balloon Dogs, Time and Why He Changed His Mind About Luxury

By Roberta Naas
A large red-and-white banner for The Armory Show hangs beneath the glass-and-steel roof of the Javits Center.

The Armory Show’s Strongest Argument for Relevance Comes From Its Youngest Galleries

By Elisa Carollo
A portrait of artist Tim Kent working in his studio, surrounded by paintbrushes, art supplies and paintings of ornate interiors.

Tim Kent’s New Show Is About Rest But He Can’t Stop Working

By Olga Samofalova
A man in a pink shirt peers through a painted cutout depicting a figure in a wide-brimmed floral hat against a white background.

Studio Lenca Has Built a Career on the Ambiguity of the Diasporic Experience

By Elisa Carollo
A woman reclines beside a monumental furry brown bear sculpture with a jeweled blue eye, pink ears and oversized paws at Kunsthaus Bregenz.

Precious Okoyomon Reflects On Play and the Garden as a Revolution of Tenderness

By Wana Udobang
A wide view of The Armory Show floor shows visitors moving among gallery booths and large-scale suspended and freestanding installations.

How to Prepare for the 2026 Armory Show: A Reading List

By Nathan Smith
A man in black stands with his arms crossed beside a colorful shaped canvas depicting a reclining figure against a tropical landscape and vibrant floral patterns.

In Tom Wesselmann’s Studio, Tomokazu Matsuyama Considers Pop’s Afterlife

By Elisa Carollo
A horizontal artwork depicting a sprawling black tree branch filled with miniature figures and objects hangs against a weathered concrete wall.

Contemporary Art Enters Istanbul’s Deep Past at Zeyrek Çinili Hamam

By Elisa Carollo
A woman seated cross-legged with an acoustic guitar in front of a large artwork depicting a figure in a green suit surrounded by flames.

Jewel’s First Major Exhibition Merges Science, Myth and Feminine Power

By Melissa Baksh
A painting of a reclining nude woman on a dark chaise lounge, with a large red flower in the foreground and an abstract interior behind her.

The Women of the Legendary 1913 Armory Show

By Mary Gregory
A whimsical miniature cityscape built from wooden blocks, towers and looping roadways crowded with colorful toy cars beneath a starry blue sky.

One Fine Show: “I SPY! Walter Wick’s Hidden Wonders” at Atlanta’s High Museum of Art

By Dan Duray
A woman with shoulder-length dark hair poses in a beige suit against a pale wall.

A Decade In, London’s Somerset House Studios Is Still Refining Its Model of Artist Support

By Simon Coates
A man wearing a cap and backpack stands outdoors holding a camera in one hand and a coil of climbing rope in the other.

Jimmy Chin On Finding Beauty in Landscapes That Kill

By Dan Duray
Two older white men, shown as if taking a selfie. The man in the foreground wears glasses and suit. The shorter man in the background is wearing a newsboy hat, round yellow glasses, and smokes a cigarette.

This Gloucester Exhibition Looks at David Hockney Through the Eyes of a Friend

By Christa Terry
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