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Reviews, commentary, news and interviews with and about the artists who influence every corner of the art market. Visit our Artist Index to browse all artists Observer has chronicled over the last 30+ years.

A woman with shoulder-length dark hair poses in a beige suit against a pale wall.

A Decade In, London’s Somerset House Studios Is Still Refining Its Model of Artist Support

Director Marie McPartlin says the residency program was designed to give artists what many institutions won't: years to work, a built-in culture of peer mentorship and permission to fail along the way.
By Simon Coates
A man wearing a cap and backpack stands outdoors holding a camera in one hand and a coil of climbing rope in the other.

Jimmy Chin On Finding Beauty in Landscapes That Kill

Few photographers have earned their vantage points the way Jimmy Chin has, with first ascents in the Himalaya and the first American ski descent of Everest. The same nerve won him an Academy Award for 'Free Solo' and earned him an Oscar nomination for 'Nyad'. Along the way, Chin built one of photography's largest audiences, with 3.4 million followers on Instagram alone, by bringing back images from places few people will ever reach.
By Dan Duray
Two older white men, shown as if taking a selfie. The man in the foreground wears glasses and suit. The shorter man in the background is wearing a newsboy hat, round yellow glasses, and smokes a cigarette.

This Gloucester Exhibition Looks at David Hockney Through the Eyes of a Friend

Curated by Bing McGilvray, “Hockney Reproduction(s)” at Manship Artists Residency explores the artist's six-decade engagement with technology and graphic reproduction.
By Christa Terry
A green-patinated bronze figure with a fragmented female body kneels on a pedestal while holding up a reflective object in leafy City Hall Park.

Genesis Belanger’s Classically Inspired Public Art Is a Commentary on Modern-Day Unease

By Elisa Carollo
A street-level view of the PARKSEOBO MUSEUM, showing its dark blue-green geometric facade, exposed concrete base and white upper volumes against a clear blue sky.

Seoul’s ParkSeoBo Museum Is More Than a Temple to Its Namesake

By Elisa Carollo
Fashion illustrator seated at a worktable covered with markers, brushes and sketches, with fashion drawings pinned across the wall behind him.

Scott W Mason Sketches Fashion’s Biggest Moments

By Ana Beatriz Reitz
A man wearing clear-framed glasses and a dark work jacket holding a roughly carved wooden sculptural head in an art-filled studio.

Tom Sachs Recreated Chanel’s Paris Flagship Out of Plywood and Paint in Chinatown

By Elisa Carollo
A seated red-haired woman in a glossy black outfit poses against a neutral gray backdrop, her long hair swept loosely around her face.

Iris van Herpen Has No Flagship Store, No Diffusion Line and No Plans to Change

By Scott Drevnig
Yoshitomo Nara’s punk-inspired wall drawing at Niagara shows a cartoon girl shouting, “Hey! Ho! Let’s go!”

Yoshitomo Nara’s New York Story Can Be Found in its Punk Clubs

By J. Scott Orr
A visitor sits in a darkened gallery facing five illuminated video screens in John Akomfrah’s The Hour of the Dog at the Menil Collection in Houston.

One Fine Show: “John Akomfrah, The Hour Of The Dog” at the Menil Collection

By Dan Duray
An older male artist with white hair and a beard stands in his studio holding a paint-covered palette beside a worktable filled with brushes and supplies.

How Tom Gilleon Turned a Genre of Nostalgia Into One of Invention

By Christa Terry
An advertisement for JOB rolling papers featuring a long-haired woman holding a lit smoking cigarette, and its gold zigzag border borrows from Byzantine mosaics.

One Fine Show: “Timeless Mucha, The Magic of Line” at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

By Dan Duray
A minimalist landscape showing a dark mountain range beneath a vast gradient sky, with low mist stretching across the plain.

The National Park System’s Lesser-Known Role as Patron of the Arts

By Daniel Grant
Woman in a red polka-dot dress standing amid an immersive installation of enormous glossy inflatable forms in red, black, orange and green.

Cj Hendry, Price Laddering and a New Collecting Model for the Kidulting Economy

By Elisa Carollo
A Yayoi Kusama works at a table in her studio, surrounded by brightly colored canvases, polka-dot patterns and trays of paint.

Yayoi Kusama, the Avant-Garde Japanese Artist Who Became a Global Cultural Icon, Dies at 97

By Elisa Carollo

Yayoi Kusama, the World’s Most Photographed Recluse

By Maika Pollack
A dramatic painting of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, with a distant waterfall framed by steep golden cliffs, dark evergreens and rocky overlooks.

The Artist Whose Paintings Helped Establish the World’s First National Park

By Fred Voon
A photograph of a severely deteriorated abandoned room with peeling plaster, broken furniture, debris across the floor and an open doorway revealing a rural landscape outside.

Photographer Steven Seidenberg On Capturing Temporality and Decay

By Xinyi Ye
A group of ancient-looking heads and masks sits on and above an ornate white fireplace, including a cardboard mask mounted on the wall.

Thomas Houseago Makes Ancient Objects Speak to Our Violent Present

By Elisa Carollo
A gallery installation at the Cultural Foundation Abu Dhabi features a large yellow wall with a mixed-media artwork, bright pink and blue architectural partitions, hanging textile works and patterned flooring beneath a high geometric ceiling.

Shezad Dawood’s “Skin of Dreams” Looks Forward as Well as Back

By Elise Morton

At MCA Chicago, Kenzi Shiokava Gets His Long-Awaited Solo Debut

By Lucas Gómez-Doyle
A man in black clothing and round glasses stands outdoors against a railing, with the Gwangju Biennale building and its Korean and English signage behind him.

Ho Tzu Nyen Wants the Gwangju Biennale to Honor the Past, Not Relive It

By Elisa Carollo
A portrait photograph shows artist Leslie Lewis Sigler seated barefoot on a stool in her studio, surrounded by paintings and sculptural works depicting lace, shells, dishes and silverware.

Leslie Lewis Sigler On Turning Heirlooms into Portraits of a Life

By Xinyi Ye
An artist dressed in black sits in a paint-splattered studio surrounded by numerous dark-toned figurative and abstract paintings, with brushes and paint cans on a wooden table nearby.

In Liang Fu’s Latest Work, a Vision of Humanity Touched by Relentless Entropy

By Elisa Carollo
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