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Curators

News about and interviews with the most interesting and influential curators in the art world today.

How Fashion Exhibitions Became Laboratories for Interdisciplinary Thinking

The Brooklyn Museum's senior curator of fashion and material culture Matthew Yokobosky explains how treating fashion as art can reveal the relationships between human and machine, between microscopic structures and universal forms and between natural phenomena and manufactured mediums.
By Matthew Yokobosky
A split layout pairing a crowded gallery opening—visitors mingling around a large, colorful textile-like installation in an industrial space—with the same portrait of the woman on the right.

Curator Adriana Farietta On Why CONDUCTOR Is the Fair the Art World Needs Right Now

How a new art fair at Brooklyn's Powerhouse Arts is trying to chart a different course.
By Dan Duray
A gallery view shows paintings hung on red walls and a glass case containing small white bust sculptures, with a quote painted high on the wall above the display.

Valerie Mercer and the Long Work of Putting African American Art Where It Belongs

The DIA's lead curator of African American art discusses what it means to move a collection from the margins of a museum to its literal center.
By Christa Terry
A museum gallery with a grid of protest photographs on one wall and a large image of a crowd holding a Puerto Rican flag, documenting the “Verano del 19” protests referenced in the exhibition.

In Dancehall and Reggaetón’s Evolution, MCA Chicago Charts a Global Awakening

By Elisa Carollo
A portrait of a short-haired man superimposed over a screenshot of a chatbot conversation

Lukas Amacher Is Building a Chatbot for the Art World

By Christa Terry
Portrait of a person with short bleached-blond hair, round black glasses, and a mustache, wearing a white T-shirt and chain necklace, standing on an urban street lined with older apartment buildings and balconies.

James Taylor-Foster On Curatorial Fluidity and Para Site’s Next Chapter

By Elisa Carollo
A man with short dark hair, wearing glasses and a navy sweater, stands with his arms crossed in front of a textured concrete wall, smiling at the camera.

Robert Wiesenberger On Thinking Relationally and Brooklyn’s Art World Ambitions

By Dan Duray
An image shows a man in a dark suit and a woman in a black dress standing together in a gallery space, with colorful Keith Haring paintings displayed on the wall behind them.

Curators Dieter Buchhart and Anna Karina Hofbauer Want to Reintroduce You to Keith Haring

By Dan Duray
A bearded man with white hair and glasses holds a microphone to his mouth

Francesco Bonami’s Case Against Trend-Chasing in the Museum Business

By Dan Duray
A female figure balances on a plank above a digitally rendered cityscape as monumental symbols loom in the distance in Lu Yang’s Doku the Flow.

In L.A., Julia Stoschek’s Art Collection Activates a Cinema Landmark

By Sarah Moroz
Visitors walk toward the entrance of the ESTE ARTE pavilion, a low wooden structure set amid landscaped greenery.

How ESTE ARTE Founder Laura Bardier Built an Art Market from Scratch

By Elisa Carollo
A side-by-side collage of two images: a portrait of a woman with dark hair in a dark dress smiling on the left and a city skyline showing a far view of SFMOMA on the right

Between MoAD and SFMOMA, Cornelia Stokes Charts a Unique Curatorial Path

By Dan Duray
A side by side collage of photos of a woman in black on the left and a warmly lit gallery at night on the right

Curator Juliane Bischoff On Remaining Attentive to the Conditions of the Present

By Dan Duray
A gallery interior filled with textile works, vitrines, and hanging materials is viewed from a wide central aisle.

The Sixth Kochi-Muziris Biennale Foregrounds Human Experience

By Elisa Carollo
A collage grid of circular photos featuring headshots of a diverse group of people on a dusty rose background

Observer’s Curators to Watch in 2026

By Elisa Carollo and The Editors
A portrait of a woman wearing a multicolored knit top, with a light pink and purple pattern, standing with her arms crossed in front of a large black-and-white photo of a figure with their hands covering their face.

Curator Irene Gelfman On Pinta Miami’s Evolution into a Hub for Ibero-American Art

By Christa Terry
Professional portrait of Antwuan Sargent, director of Gagosian, wearing a beanie and suit. The image includes "Observer 2025 Art Index" branding with her name and title "Director, Gagosian," on the right side.

Antwaun Sargent On Shifting the Balance of Power Toward Artists

By The Editors
Jimi Hendrix's guitar laid flat in front of a wall of his performances at an exhibition at Seattle's Museum of Pop Culture

When Algorithms Curate Culture, What Do We Lose?

By Michele Y. Smith
An art viewer stands in a gallery looking at two large, colorful paintings mounted on adjacent walls, illustrating the exhibition.

Juana Williams and Julie Egan of DETROIT SALON On Bringing Motor City’s Art to the World

By Dan Duray
A person lies on a patterned sofa under a lamp, reading a magazine that partially covers their face, in a warmly lit, domestic room.

Curator Karen Comer Lowe’s Five Artists to Watch

By Leia Genis
A gallery wall displays a grid of black-and-white photographs showing people in a park, including dancers, children jumping rope, and a man sitting with a boombox, with two wooden benches positioned in front.

Kathy Ryan On Curating Joy Through Different Artists’ Lenses

By Dan Duray
Five women stand together in a modern interior by a staircase and a row of large windows, posing as the newly appointed all-female artistic team for Documenta 16.

Documenta 16’s Naomi Beckwith Introduces Her Groundbreaking Artistic Team

By Elisa Carollo
View of A.I. student, Flynn, in a classroom at the University of Applied Arts Vienna

Authorship, Autonomy and Art School: The Making of Flynn as an A.I. Student

By Auronda Scalera and Dr. Alfredo Cramerotti
An oil painting titled Children’s Games (1953) by Jawad Selim features childlike, geometric figures with large almond eyes interacting in abstract spaces across a pastel-toned canvas.

Curator Nada Shabout Traces the Enduring Legacy of the Baghdad Modern Art Group

By Farah Abdessamad
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