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Karma

Karma was founded by Brendan Dugan in 2011 in New York City’s East Village. The gallery was established to showcase emerging and mid-career contemporary artists, offering a platform for innovative and experimental works. Artists such as Alex Da Corte, Nicolas Party, and Woody De Othello have gained recognition through Karma’s exhibitions. The gallery’s commitment to fresh and dynamic programming has made it a notable presence in the New York art world, encouraging other galleries to take similar risks and support cutting-edge art. Read more about Galleries.

A wide overhead view shows the interior of Art Genève with white-walled booths arranged along dark aisles, clusters of visitors walking and sitting at tables and artworks displayed evenly across the fair floor.

Art Genève Courts Galleries With a Different Market Logic

This fair unfolds at a deliberately measured scale, offering galleries and collectors a setting defined by conversation and connection.
By Sarah Moroz
A textured abstract painting composed of dense, interlocking blocks and brushstrokes of color, dominated by greens, yellows, and earthy tones, with touches of turquoise, lavender, and red. The thickly applied paint creates a mosaic-like surface with visible ridges and cracks. Vertical and horizontal forms intersect throughout the composition, giving the impression of an abstracted cityscape or layered foliage. The work is displayed in a simple white frame against a light-colored wall.

The Early Experiments of Manoucher Yektai

The artist's vaguely surrealist dreamscapes and gestural portraiture often converged stylistically with the work of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism.
By Mya Ward
A sunlit courtyard in Doha’s Msheireb Downtown district, featuring modern beige stone buildings with geometric facades, shaded walkways, and a patterned plaza beneath a latticed canopy.

Art Basel Qatar Announces 87 Exhibitors Bringing Work for the Inaugural Edition

Artistic director Wael Shawky teased that the commissioned public projects will amplify regional voices, with their full scope to be revealed in the weeks ahead.
By Elisa Carollo
A silk-screen print by Jane Dickson of The Odeon restaurant in Tribeca, showing diners seated outside beneath the restaurant’s red neon sign.

Beyond Times Square Sleaze: Jane Dickson Still Captures the Pulse of the City

By J. Scott Orr
Gallery booth beneath a vaulted glass ceiling featuring abstract paintings in bold colors—red, blue, purple, black, and yellow—paired with large metallic and ceramic sculptures on white pedestals, all arranged in a minimalist, high-contrast setting.

Frieze and NADA New York’s Early Sales Signal Buyer Confidence

By Elisa Carollo
Visitors at the entrance of the fair

West Bund Art & Design and Art021 Open With Great Enthusiasm But Slow Sales

By Elisa Carollo
Image of fair attendees at a fair

What to Expect From West Bund Art & Design This Year

By Elisa Carollo
Image of people at Grand Palais

Highlights and Sales from an Effervescent Art Basel Paris VIP Preview

By Elisa Carollo
A sculpture looms large at an art fair

Frieze Returns to London: Here’s Are This Year’s Highlights

By Reuben Esien

Five Contemporary Art Spaces and Shows to Check Out in Maine This Summer

By Elisa Carollo

Five Pieces That Stole the Show at Art Basel Miami Beach

By Dan Duray

Jane Dickson Explores the Promises We Keep and the Time We Save

By Payton Selby
New Jersey police officers at a crime scene in Paterson, N.J.

NJ Politics Digest: Murphy Turns Fatal Police Shooting Probes Over to State

By Observer Politics Team
Was this cover a bad idea?

Charlie Hebdo Publishes Cover Claiming God Sent Hurricane Harvey to Kill Neo-Nazis

By John Bonazzo
Co-Founder of Reddit Alexis Ohanian (L) onstage in New York City.

Internet People, Can We All Please Stop Pretending We’re So Important?

By Kevin Currie
Jonathan Horowitz, 700 Dots, Frieze New York.

Artist to Transform World Trade Center Oculus Into a Dot Painting Studio

By Alanna Martinez
Paintings by David Diao at Office Baroque's booth at the Independent art fair.

The Independent Fair’s New Tribeca Home is the Best Place to View Art This Week

By Alanna Martinez
Faith Holland, Graceful Machines.

Weekend Edition: 12 Things to Do in New York’s Art World Before February 22

By Paul Laster

Battle of the Belge: Art Brussels Opens With an Onslaught of Openings

By Ryan Steadman

Silk Scarves, Mud Flaps and Trees for Independent’s Opening Day

By Zoë Lescaze
Imagine all the fun of these contracts on your phone! (Photo: flickr user NobMouse)

Startup Rundown: Shake App Makes Contracts On Your Phone And Wi-Fi Comes To NYC GroundLink Cars

By Sarah Jacoby
The new space. (Courtesy Karma)

Karma Heads to Great Jones Street

By Dan Duray
The defaced Rothko. (Courtesy the Guardian)

Rothko Vandal Sentenced to Two Years in Prison

By M.H. Miller
(Photo: Caters News Agency)

Booting Up: Trampoline to Work Edition

By Jessica Roy
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