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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.

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

In “Heirloom,” the artist transforms mallow weeds, lace, quartz, Corten steel and cast glass into fragile but forceful meditations on memory, inheritance and regeneration.
By Elisa Carollo

Marilyn Minter Reflects On Four Decades of Beauty, Grit and Banishing Shame

Exaggerated commercial aesthetics have always been this artist's most subversive tool.
By Dan Duray
A large rectangular tank full of cloudy blue-tinted water sits on a stand in a room in a museum; there's a large black stone floating in the water

One Fine Show: “Pierre Huyghe” at Fondation Beyeler

Huyghe makes art that implies our current moment is a little too stupid to be engaged with, unless through several layers of substances, technology and irony.
By Dan Duray
An abstract work on paper shows many black and red dots, eyes, stars, spirals and curving lines spread across a cream-colored background, with color calibration bars visible at the top and bottom.

Joan Miró’s Joy Is as Infectious as Ever

By Dian Parker
A messy bed with white sheets and two pillows on a blue rug. There are garbage strewn around

One Fine Show: “Tracey Emin, A Second Life” at Tate Modern in London

By Dan Duray
A spacious gallery installation with suspended vertical wires, colorful curved glass panels arranged across the floor, and large wall-mounted glass works.

Su Xiaobai’s Meditative Material Practice Is the Focus of One of the Biennale’s Most Commanding Shows

By Elisa Carollo
Photo by Dan Bradica Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York

The Temporal and Geographical Ambiguity of Mark Manders

By Elisa Carollo
An abstract collaborative painting shows bold red, black, gold, purple and blue shapes around a central white circle marked with handwritten signatures.

Can Rock Royalty Really Make Art Worth Owning?

By Simon Coates
A man sits cross-legged in front of a large quilt-like textile with red, blue and white geometric patterns.

At Marianne Boesky, Sanford Biggers Rewrites the Rules of Material Storytelling

By Elisa Carollo
A portrait photograph shows Manuel Mathieu standing in front of a large abstract painting with purple, orange and white forms, framed by hanging strips of textured material.

Manuel Mathieu’s Venice Biennale Debut Asks How We Carry the Past

By Elise Morton
A sculptural assemblage in black leaning against a cream-colored wall

One Fine Show: “Louise Nevelson, Mrs. N’s Palace” at the Centre Pompidou-Metz

By Dan Duray
An ornate museum gallery with dark curtains, glass cabinets and classical busts displays several white pillow-like sculptural figures positioned across the floor.

Erwin Wurm Transforms the Fortuny Museum into a Theater of the Absurd

By Elisa Carollo
The artist stands inside his installation beside monumental vessel sculptures made of reflective metal, titanium forms and intricate ornamental details.

Wallace Chan’s Dual-Site Exhibition Bridges Not Only Geography But Also Matter, Energy, Past and Future

By Elisa Carollo
A man with a green striped jacket and red cap looks up at a massive bright orange fire hydrant sculpture in a grassy park.

Roberto Lugo On Thinking Larger Than Life in Madison Square Park

By J. Scott Orr
Red-painted museum building exterior with a small tree in front, a wooden door, and visitors walking by.

Two Houses, One Legend: A New Museum Shows Another Side of Frida Kahlo

By Jordan Riefe
An altar-like wooden cabinet combines expressive painted panels and handmade puppets arranged in a theatrical tableau against a black wall.

One Fine Show: “Paula Rego, Dance Among Thorns” at MUNCH in Oslo

By Dan Duray
A painter stands in a studio surrounded by large, brightly colored abstract canvases.

50 Years of Groundbreaking Work: Kunstmuseum Basel Puts Helen Frankenthaler Front and Center

By Dian Parker
A print of an etching of the entombment of Jesus

From Midnight Casts to Authorized Editions: Understanding the Market for Posthumously Produced Art

By Daniel Grant
A person with short gray-streaked hair and glasses sits on the floor in front of a staged storefront installation featuring signs for “psychic readings” and a neon hand-and-eye symbol behind a barred window.

Nick Doyle’s “Mirror, Mirror” Turns the American Dream Inside Out

By Elisa Carollo
A highly detailed silver sculpture resembling a human face, displayed on a white pedestal in a circular, ornately carved wooden hall with additional busts on stands in the background.

Barry X Ball Connects the Secular and Sacred in “The Shape of Time”

By Madeleine Seidel
A grid of torn black-and-white portraits is repaired with thin gold lines.

Don’t Miss: Giles Duley’s “Distortion / Memory / Resilience” at Sutton Tower

By Kinvara Balfour
A monumental red abstract sculpture with a curled, organic top rises from the floor in a minimalist white gallery.

A Major Martin Puryear Retrospective Reveals an Artist Who Has Never Stopped Evolving

By Anthony Paletta
A crowded Future Fair aisle shows visitors moving between gallery booths displaying paintings and sculptural works.

Artists to Watch: Future Fair and 1-54’s Best Discoveries

By Elisa Carollo

Painter Renée Levin’s Unhurried Eye

By Xinyi Ye
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