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Timely questions lurk at the heart of connoisseurship: What counts as originality, what value do we place on it, how do we protect it?
Clavicular sparked a social media storm after a photo of a massive self-portrait mural inside his penthouse went viral. Many fans mocked the artwork, comparing it to a dictator-sty...
More than a century after its incendiary début, “Woman with a Hat” remains wonderfully resistant to the dictates of beauty and taste.
The context surrounding an artwork, such as information about the artist’s moral values and behavior, can change our feelings when we see it.
Observer spoke to the author about controversial figures in the art world, dealing with woke dismissiveness and whether artists can effectively skewer the cultural signifiers that...
A recent run of ambitious site-specific projects demonstrates aptly why exhibitions must be conceived in dialogue with architecture, history and the bodies moving through them.
Influencers, TikTok reviewers and shrinking newsroom budgets have transformed arts criticism. At the National Critics Institute, Caitlin Hornik explored why professional critics st...
Long before the superyachts and beach clubs arrived, artists were drawn to its extraordinary Mediterranean light.
The show draws on a medium that emerged in the mid-1400s, whose earliest technical processes remain only partly understood even now.
A growing number of collectors are gifting significant works of art to college and university museums, and for good reason.
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The chocolate boxiest of all the impressionists has long had his haters – even Manet thought he was rubbish. Little surprise then that the thieves ditched two works on the way outS...
Fusing religious subjects with unerring technique, the Spanish artist Francisco de Zurbarán discovered a zone in oil paint that might well be called “sacred."
“Willem de Kooning Drawing” at the Art Institute of Chicago reveals the artist as a master draftsman across seven decades of work.
Despite financial pressures and political headwinds, university art museums sustain ambitious, ethically grounded collecting and exhibition programs reflective of an ongoing commit...
plod: I came across this painting by Ingres - Madame Devaucey - and thought it had something of the Mona Lisa about it. Would be worthwhile to share what that ‘something’ is. Th...
In a multipolar society where guilt is increasingly mistaken for depth and messaging for meaning, Arbra Partners founder Lucas Bitencourt argues that the power of the curator has d...
"I think that each of these paintings is emblematic of a particular moment. They encapsulate something; they represent a group of paintings," he told Observer.
The art world has developed its own version of the privacy economy, a circuit of events where the serious thinking happens away from the main stages (and the absence of a waiting l...
Anne and Arthur Goldstein, Kay Culbreath Heller and J. Roderick Heller, Nancy Delman Portnoy and other philanthropic collectors recently placed major holdings where they can be stu...
Millennial and Gen Z art buyers are rejecting hype, speculation and inherited art-world conventions in favor of personal resonance, direct relationships with artists and a commitme...
I think your statement that art is defined by intentionality is breathtakingly sweeping and very …dodgy. In neolithic caves and burials there are paintings (sic) and sculptures whi...
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