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Documenta

An indoor garden installation fills a gallery with soil, rocks, trees and plants.

Global Art Biennials: Renovation, Revelation—or Repetition?

The question remains whether an alternative biennial model can exist within an art system that structurally absorbs and standardizes difference. The answer is no.
By Paco Barragán
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

Their work extends beyond interpretation into institutional development, creative stewardship and the shaping of the cultural frameworks that will ultimately define our era's art history.
By Elisa Carollo and The Editors
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

It remains to be seen whether the quiet strength of this groundbreaking group can secure a smooth, censor-free run—and the necessary funding.
By Elisa Carollo
Visitors walk through a large illuminated fair installation with red neon text reading “I CONTAIN MULTITUDES” and “WE RISE BY LIFTING OTHERS,” surrounded by ornate archways and suspended sculptures, inside the Unlimited section at Art Basel.

How Value Shifts and Circulates in Today’s Fragmented Art World

By Elisa Carollo
Photo of a black woman with a white dress inside a contemporray architecture.

Koyo Kouoh Will Be the First African Woman to Curate the Venice Biennale

By Elisa Carollo
Portrait of a woman in black and white.

Curator Kitty Scott On Her Vision for the 15th Shanghai Biennale

By Elisa Carollo
Image of a sculpture made with bicycles, one made of glass hanging on the wall and a vertical canavs on the tones of green.

Marian Goodman Unveils Its New Five-Story Tribeca Flagship With ‘Your Patience Is Appreciated’

By Elisa Carollo
View of a gold sun sculpture on top on a building facing the Mediterranean sea

How Collector Dakis Joannou Helped Turn Hydra into an Art World Destination

By Elisa Carollo

Why Generosity Was Integral to How Jonas Mekas Made His Art and Films

By Paddy Johnson
Miss Pickle is Instagram famous art world canine known for posing with art.

This Art Show Is Only for Dogs and the End Is Nigh

By Alanna Martinez
These are the art events to check out in the coming months.

10 Art Events Around the Globe

By Guelda Voien
French President Francois Hollande visiting the Department of Islamic Arts galleries at the Louvre in 2012.

Louvre Offers to Store Rescued Art from Syria, Jeremy Shaw Wins Sobey Art Award

By Alanna Martinez
A curator stands in front of a work by Kelley Walker.

CAM Staffer Attacked Over Kelley Walker Art, Lady Christ Sculpture Returns, And More

By Guelda Voien
The booth of The General Store, featuring works by Pete Wheeler (wall) and Antoine Aguilar (floor) at Art Brussels in 2016.

Art World Descends on Brussels Despite Attacks—Just Don’t Call It an Art Capital

By Guelda Voien
Vacation.

This Artwork is a 5-Week Vacation. Yes, Really.

By Ryan Steadman
William Kentridge, Notes Towards a Model Opera (detail), 2015.

William Kentridge Draws the World Together at Marian Goodman Gallery

By Ryan Steadman
Brian May, Queen's guitar player, with Freddie Mercury (Courtesy Brianmay.com)

Morning Links: Brian May's Steroscopic Picture Collection Edition

By Nate Freeman

Adam Szymczyk Named Artistic Director of Documenta 14

By Andrew Russeth
A scene from Venice in 1967. (Courtesy Keyston/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Venice Biennale, Documenta, Skulptur Projekte Münster Will Coincide in 2017

By Andrew Russeth

Documenta 13 Draws 860,000 Visitors, Record Number

By Andrew Russeth

Documenta Sees Booming Ticket Sales

By Dan Duray

I Did Documenta in a Day

By Sarah Douglas

Documenta About Twice as Popular as Venice Biennale

By Andrew Russeth

What Do Documenta 13 and Art Collector Adam Lindemann Have in Common?

By Andrew Russeth
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