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Sharjah Biennial

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
Two Arab men in traditional white dresses looking at an art installation on a wall.

The Art Fair as Cultural Policy Platform

Art Basel Qatar did more than launch a new fair; it made visible a structural shift already underway.
By Elisa Carollo
Exterior view of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Leonard A. Lauder Building, showing its angled steel facade, glass canopy and upper-level cantilever against a partly cloudy sky.

The 2026 Whitney Biennial Aims to Map a New Geography of American Art in ‘a Moment of Profound Transition’

The chosen artists are "intergenerational and international, reflecting the many ways artists remain interconnected through their practices despite geographic distance," co-director Marcela Guerrero told Observer.
By Elisa Carollo
An ancient stone sphinx statue with a human head and lion’s body is shown in the foreground, resting on a pedestal, while modern red-brick and concrete apartment buildings rise closely behind it under a clear blue sky.

The Alexandria Biennale Returns With a Mediterranean Focus After a 12-Year Hiatus

By Elisa Carollo
Two large, spiked, conch-like sculptures hang suspended in a glowing red room, creating a surreal, otherworldly atmosphere.

Invoking the Past to Redefine the Now at Sharjah Biennial 16

By Elisa Carollo
An indoor installation featuring several colorful, totem-like sculptures assembled from industrial pipes, spouts, and containers, placed on low wooden platforms, with two large fabric banners depicting abstract, patterned landscapes hanging behind them, while visitors, including a woman taking a photo with her phone, walk around and observe the display.

In Sharjah, Five Curators and Two-Hundred Artists Confront Global Issues Through a Regional Lens

By Sarah Moroz
Exterior of a building covered by a colorful wall painting

Observer’s Guide to the Must-Visit Biennials and Triennials of 2025

By Elisa Carollo
#DecolonizeThisPlace protestors cover the Equestrian Statue of Theodore Roosevelt at the American Museum of Natural History on October 10, 2016.

Anti-Columbus Day Group Protests Roosevelt Statue, Iran’s Ancient Ties to Japan

By Alanna Martinez
Sheikh Sultan Bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, the ruler of Sharjah, viewing a work by by Lebanese artist Marwan Rachmawi at the Sharjah Biennial 7 in 2005. (Courtesy Rabih Moghrabi/AFP/Getty Images)

Sheik to Rescue Gutenberg Museum, Basquiat Stolen in Paris, and More

By Guelda Voien

Korean Art Is Having a Moment, via the ‘New Yorker’, Sharjah Curator Named, and More

By Guelda Voien
Sheikh Sultan Bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, the ruler of Sharjah, viewing a work by by Lebanese artist Marwan Rachmawi at the Sharjah Biennial 7 in 2005. (Courtesy Rabih Moghrabi/AFP/Getty Images)

More Artists Named for Next Sharjah Biennial

By Andrew Russeth

Yuko Hasegawa Named Curator of 2013 Sharjah Biennial

By Andrew Russeth

Morning Links: Liz Taylor and Tracey Emin Edition

By Andrew Russeth
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