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Art Experts

Insightful commentary on the most important trends impacting today’s art world, written by business leaders with rare understandings of how and why art is collected, invested in, supported and appreciated. Observer Arts Contributors bring fresh lenses to the topics that matter most in today’s art market—sharing all of that (and more) with our audience of arts and culture enthusiasts. Read more Expert Insights.

British Art Fair at the Saatchi Gallery awaits visitors in London

What’s Next for British Art?

British art is having a moment, but British Art Fair co-founder and director Gay Hutson cautions that before we celebrate too loudly, it's worth considering whether we are looking for art's next stars in the right places.
By Gay Hutson
A painting rendered in dark colors of a family riding in the third class part of a train carriage with top-hatted heads behind them. The woman is nursing a baby.

An Insider’s Indictment of an Isolated Art World

The issue at hand, says New York dealer Georges Bergès, is not the public's taste nor the supply of talent but rather that the industry can no longer survive if it remains exclusionary toward the very people it claims to reflect.
By Georges Berges
A dark gallery installation combines illuminated translucent panels, sculptural tables, a spiky circular wall piece and a large white suspended structure marked with small red circles.

The Long View: What Qatar Can Teach Us About Investing in Culture

Amir Berbić, dean of Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar, argues that at a moment when many countries are reducing investment in the arts, Qatar offers a compelling counterexample: the recognition that the most enduring returns are often generated by investments whose full value cannot yet be quantified, but which ultimately reshape institutions, communities and the future itself.
By Amir Berbic
Two art handlers carefully adjust a large abstract painting by Joan Mitchell on the wall, with the reflection of the artwork visible on the polished floor.

Art, Death and Taxes: What Collectors Need to Know About Creating a Legacy That Lasts

By Megan Fox Kelly
An art handler stands in front of Bildnis Elisabeth Lederer (Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer), by Gustav Klimt, during a press preview at Sotheby's on November 07, 2025 in New York City.

The Future of an Art Collection Is Decided Long Before It Changes Hands

By Megan Fox Kelly
61st Biennale Art 2026

What the Venice Biennale Reveals About the West’s Cultural Confidence

By Lucas Bitencourt
A warmly lit listening room clad in perforated wood panels features large built-in speakers, shaggy stools, low yellow tables, floor cushions and glass doors opening onto a planted terrace.

The Sonic Frontier: Why Sound Is Becoming Culture’s New Favorite Medium

By Adriana Marianella
Portrait of Henry Clay Frick in the West Gallery of his Pittsburg home, Clayton c. 1925.

The Frick Legacy: Taste, Ambition and a Collector’s Monument

By Megan Fox Kelly
FRANCE-CULTURE-ART-EXHIBITION

How to Solve the Art World’s Courage Problem

By Georges Berges
An exterior street view of a majestic parthenon-like art museum

What the Cultural Sector Got Wrong About the Philadelphia Museum of Art Rebrand

By John Ball
A performance of Echoes on the Wall shows three dancers in purple costumes moving through Rosalind Tallmadge’s sculptural installation of translucent panels in a white-walled gallery space.

How Can Philanthropy Help the Arts? By Fully Supporting Innovators

By Stephen Reily and Sam Gill
An installation view shows a shiny, brightly colored sculpture of oversized metallic balloon-like flowers displayed in a white museum gallery.

The Crisis of the Museum Is the Crisis of the White Cube

By Paco Barragán
A small yellow flower held between two hands, one hand gently passing it to the other, set against a blurred natural background.

When Seeing Isn’t Believing: Why Photography Needs Community More Than Ever

By Katherine Ryckman Siegwarth

How Fashion Exhibitions Became Laboratories for Interdisciplinary Thinking

By Matthew Yokobosky
A small black-walled exhibition room displays comic-style drawings, a sculptural white shell form and a black-and-white striped garment mounted on a mannequin.

Exhibition as Experience: The Turn Toward Building Worlds, Not Walls

By Jennifer Findley
A man in a striped shirt stands at a podium in front of a screen displaying a purple cake.

Trust-Based Funding Works. So Why Are Artists Still Living in Precarity?

By Mary Jane Edwards
Students attend an educational program in the Gothic Room at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts Wednesday, June 2, 2016.

The Complete Collector: What Isabella Stewart Gardner Built

By Megan Fox Kelly
A red-toned illustration shows a man sitting beside a bed, leaning over a sleeping woman with a cloth pressed to her face, while his shadow looms on the wall and a small horse sculpture sits on a bedside table.

The Politics of Print: What the Medium’s Last Renaissance Can Teach Us About Our Current Market

By Jenny Gibbs
An artist monograph turned over so the front and back cover and visible

In Luxury Arts Publishing, Artists Are Reclaiming the Narrative

By Camille Dubois and Esther Kremer
A grid of art book covers

The Long View: 11 Art Books That Ask Us to Look Again

By Megan Fox Kelly
A gallery assistant poses for a photograph with an artwork entitled 'Wellesley Girls, 1967' by US artist Alice Neel during a press preview of 'Alice Neel: Hot Off The Griddle' at the Barbican Art Gallery in London on February 15, 2023.

How Philanthropy Is Reshaping the Global Art Ecosystem

By Gilles de Greling
Professional portrait of Lina Ghotmeh, founder of LG—A, wearing a red blouse. The image includes "Observer 2025 Art Index" branding with her name and title "Founder & Architect, LG—A," on the right side.

Lina Ghotmeh Is Reimagining Cultural Architecture for a Connected World

By The Editors
Professional portrait of Clare McAndrew, founder of Arts Economics, wearing a black blazer and white shirt. The image includes "Observer 2025 Art Index" branding with her name and title "Founder & Cultural Economist, Arts Economics," on the right side.

Clare McAndrew On Why the Art Market’s Future Lies Beyond the $10 Million Sale

By The Editors
Professional portrait of Jennifer Findley and Kevin Mansour

Art as Infrastructure: How Cultural Programming Is Redefining Luxury Hospitality


By Sonia Rubeck
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