ObserverThe Arts New Report On Art and Technology Finds Collectors Crave Personal Communication observer.com - Helen Holmes Over the past calendar year, as the pandemic raged and denizens of the art world retreated into their homes, online auctions and remote collecting …
ObserverMuseums 39% of Full-Time Museum Staffers Lost Income During the Pandemic, Report Finds observer.com - Helen Holmes Throughout the pandemic, the American Alliance of Museums has been keeping track of both institutions and workers who’ve been affected by the massive …
ObserverLouisiana Beau Patrick Coulon’s ‘Revel & Revolt’ Redefines Punk Protest Photography observer.com - Teresa Xie Beau Patrick Coulon’s striking black and white photo, Baton Rouge Police Attack Alton Sterling Demo, centers a swarm of heavily geared law enforcement …
ObserverKentucky The Inaugural 21c Artadia Award Will Offer $10,000 to Emerging Artists observer.com - Helen Holmes Every artist knows that when your career is in its incubation stage, the most important asset you need isn’t studio space or even stalwart …
ObserverInvesting ‘Fresh Earth’ at Aicon Gallery Wrestles With Colonialism’s Environmental Impacts observer.com - Ashley Bardhan As climate changes, sea levels rise, people displace, and the art surrounding it becomes more urgent. Aicon Gallery’s “Fresh Earth” exhibit, on view …
ObserverSculpture A Drone Sculpture by Sam Durant Will Soon Hover Over New York’s High Line observer.com - Helen Holmes The High Line, the elevated walkway that cuts through Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, has gained traction over the years as a focal point for …
ObserverThe Arts The New Dia Chelsea is Bolder, Streamlined and Ready to Elevate Talented Artists observer.com - Helen Holmes Everybody with a passion for the arts in New York City knows about Dia Beacon, the cavernous upstate museum that allows artists to run wild with …
ObserverGoogle Doodle Today’s Google Doodle Celebrates Printing Press Innovator Johannes Gutenberg observer.com - Helen Holmes In today’s era of digital publishing, TikToks and the never-ending churn of Twitter, it can be easy to forget that in the not so distant past, being …
ObserverManhattan Dawoud Bey Retrospective at The Whitney Museum Honors Groundbreaking Photographer observer.com - Nadja Sayej Since the 1970s, New York photographer Dawoud Bey has been photographing Black culture. From sidewalks to living rooms and inside the church pews, he …
ObserverRussia Russian Artist Yulia Tsvetkova is Facing Pornography Charges for Her Vagina Drawings observer.com - Helen Holmes In Russia, outspoken artists who push back against the establishment are often punished for their efforts. Pussy Riot, the dissident punk rockers who …
ObserverMiddle East Two Flemish Tapestries of Moses That Were Looted by the Nazis Will Be Returned observer.com - Helen Holmes Nazi-looted artwork has a way of traveling all over the world in a manner that’s extremely compelling: no matter when the saga of the individual work …
ObserverFashion 2021’s Met Costume Institute Exhibition Will Focus on American Fashion’s History observer.com - Helen Holmes Every year, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute exhibition and corresponding Gala inevitably produces divisive incidents of celebrity …
ObserverWest Africa The National Museum of Ireland Has Decided to Return Its Benin Bronzes observer.com - Helen Holmes Repatriating stolen art is a definitively noble cause, and as such, a great deal of attention has been trained for the last few years upon the Quai …
ObserverVandalism Artist Danny Cole on Dreams of A Utopia of Creatures and Vandalism observer.com - Laura Pitcher Friday April 2nd, the Hollywood Sign’s “O” was filled with a cow face painted on an overhanging sheet. To the bafflement of many, there seemed to be …
ObserverNew York Botanical Garden Yayoi Kusama’s New York Botanical Garden Exhibition is All About Springtime Optimism observer.com - Helen Holmes Has any artist’s joyful work ever been better suited for the outdoors than Yayoi Kusama‘s? Kusama, the Japanese contemporary artist perhaps best …
ObserverThe Arts All Children are Artists, According to CMA Executive Director Seth Cameron observer.com - Paige Harriss Art for children and fine art aren’t nearly as different as we think, Children’s Museum of the Arts Executive Director Seth Cameron reminds us. The …
ObserverMiddle East Six People Have Been Arrested in Connection to Vandalized Richard Serra Sculpture observer.com - Helen Holmes Back in January, the monumental sculpture East West/West East, which was made by the sculptor Richard Serra at the behest of the Qatari Royal Family …
ObserverEating Melissa Broder’s ‘Milk Fed,’ TikTok Recovery, and Seeing Yourself Reflected observer.com - Emily Eckelbarger There’s something both incredibly alarming and mesmerizing about reading a fictional character’s word-for-word description of your own eating …
ObserverArt “Roni Horn Recent Work” Plays With Language That Reflects This Cultural Moment observer.com - Anni Irish For years Roni Horn has cultivated an enigmatic presence within the confines of the art world. Engaging in a conceptual studio practice that spans …
ObserverRace & Ethnicity Jasmin Hernandez, Online and In-Person observer.com - Ella Huzenis The New York-born, Afro-Dominican American writer Jasmin Hernandez, who founded the popular BIPOC-centered art website Gallery Gurls in 2012, …
ObserverBlindness Experiencing Theater Again at Off Broadway’s ‘Blindness’ observer.com - David Cote About 30 years ago — that’s a month in pandemic years — I was in a college acting class. Our teacher, a flamboyant, potbellied imp who fled the …
ObserverPablo Picasso Picasso’s Portrait of Muse Marie-Thérèse Walter Is Expected to Sell for $55 Million observer.com - Helen Holmes There’s perhaps no relationship structure more canonical in the art world than the classical pairing of artist and muse, especially if the two happen …
ObserverThe Arts A Boston Man Has Pled Guilty to Selling Fake Andy Warhol Paintings for $80,000 observer.com - Helen Holmes It’s a truth universally acknowledged that if you make a purchase on eBay, there’s a decent chance you won’t ultimately receive exactly what you …
ObserverFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoRoyal Families The Stake of Dignity: Mariette Pathy Allen’s Portraiture observer.com - Grace Byron When I stood in front of one of Mariette Pathy Allen’s portraits, I realized I was holding my hands the same way as Vanessa in a Fur Jacket. I noticed …
ObserverMemes Jerry Gogosian, Meme-Maker, Understands the Art World Better Than Almost Everyone observer.com - Helen Holmes Saying the art world has an elitism problem is like saying sharks have a teeth problem, but all the same, it’s an observation worth making because of …
ObserverDavid Hockney David Hockney is Skeptical About NFTs and Thinks Beeple’s Work Looks ‘Silly’ observer.com - Helen Holmes It’s a truth universally acknowledged that artists at the very top of the food chain will, when prompted, exercise their right to look down upon …
ObserverFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoDiversity The Met Opera Wants to Reform, But Can It? observer.com - Annie Levin It took a global pandemic, the eruption of the Black Lives Matter movement, and the possibility of the end of opera as we know it for the …
ObserverArtists A Poussin Painting That Was Looted by Nazis Just Turned Up in Italy observer.com - Helen Holmes When it comes to the endless amounts of artwork that was looted from innocent families by the Nazis, decades later, it can sometimes be difficult to …
ObserverFinance An NFT Version of Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Salvator Mundi’ Will Be Auctioned Off Soon observer.com - Helen Holmes The thing about non-fungible tokens or NFTs, the hottest new commodity in the art world, is that they have proven that they can be fabricated out of …
