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The FLAG Art Foundation

Observer’s 2025 Art Power Index: The Art Market’s Most Influential People

Their acquisitions, affinities and approbations move the needle on valuation and redefine how art is made, shown and sold.
By The Editors,  Christa Terry,  Dan Duray,  Elisa Carollo,  Farah Abdessamad,  and Merin Curotto
A brightly lit gallery space at the FLAG Art Foundation featuring a group exhibition of sculptures on pedestals and mixed-media artworks hung salon-style on white walls.

Zero Art Fair Isn’t Selling Art—It’s Giving It Away, With Just a Few Caveats

“We see the fair as a bridge between art, artists and working people who deserve to live with art,” the fair's co-founders told Observer.
By Elisa Carollo

The Most Influential People in Art

Observer’s Business of Art Power List spotlights the bold innovators steering today’s art world through shifting markets, new collector dynamics and cultural reinvention. From market disruptors to institution builders, these visionaries are redefining influence, expanding access and setting the course for art’s global future.
By The Editors,  Christa Terry,  Elisa Carollo,  Merin Curotto,  Mána Taylor,  and Su Ertekin-Taner
Painting of an engle and a man.

FLAG Art Foundation’s Glenn Fuhrman On Partnering With the Parrish Art Museum

By Elisa Carollo
Who ways bigger is better?

The Artists Busting the Myth That Big Paintings Sell Better

By Margaret Carrigan
Nicole Eisenman, The Work of Labor and Care, 2004.

11 Things to Do in New York’s Art World Before May 13

By Paul Laster
An installation view of Jeff Koons’s Cat on a Clothesline (Red), 1994-2001, in "Cecily Brown, Jeff Koons, Charles Ray" at The Flag Art Foundation, 2016.

10 Things to Do in New York’s Art World Before April 22

By Paul Laster
Girly Girl, (2013).

NSFW Feminist Artist Betty Tompkins’ Time is Now

By Alanna Martinez
Barbara Kruger, Rendering of Untitled (Blind Idealism Is…), 2016.

11 Things to Do in New York’s Art World Before March 25

By Paul Laster
Walter Chandoha: The Cat Photographer, published by Aperture, 2015. (Photo: © Walter Chandoha)

12 Things to Do in New York’s Art World Before January 21

By Paul Laster
Ellsworth Kelly's Blue Relief over Green, 2004, inspired the FLAG Art Foundation exhibition. (Photo: Courtesy of the artist)

Chelsea Art Show Blurs Lines Between Two and Three Dimensions

By Hailey Cunningham
Robert Longo, 'Untitled (French Forest),' 2012. (Courtesy the artist and Metro Pictures)

‘Something About a Tree’: Linda Yablonsky on Her Flag Art Foundation Show

By Andrew Russeth
Harkness, Roach and Fuhrman. (Courtesy Flag)

If Memory Serves…: Hilary Harkness on Her Paintings, at the Andaz Hotel

By Andrew Russeth
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