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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 sepia-toned still life drawing shows a shallow bowl, a dark handled jug and a smaller pitcher arranged on a wooden tabletop.

The Continuing Reinvention of Willem de Kooning

By Dian Parker
A museum study-room photograph shows three people gathered around a table examining works on paper, with an older woman and a younger woman leaning over a colorful artwork while a man stands behind them.

“It’s About Time”: At 86, Gladys Nilsson Gets Her First Major Retrospective

By Mána Taylor

The Bad Planning That Leaves Many Artist Estates Tangled in Lawsuits

By Daniel Grant
A large colored-pencil drawing on white paper shows several nude or partially nude human figures intertwined and overlapping diagonally, rendered in bands of pink, blue, yellow, green and orange.

Centro Botín Champions Marisol’s Drawings and Rethinks Her Legacy

By Sarah Moroz
A heavily textured painting uses broken ceramic plates and thick paint to depict the layered green canopy and branching trunks of trees against a pale blue background.

Julian Schnabel On Showcasing the Essentials at Château La Coste

By Sarah Moroz
A still from a video of a woman's face in close up with a very dark background behind her

One Fine Show: “Arthur Jafa, The White Album” at the Hammer Museum

By Dan Duray
A man stands behind a suspended red dragon inside a transparent chained box, surrounded by small eye-like drawings on the gallery walls.

Tran Luong Considers Vietnam’s Reality Through an Imagined Underwater World

By Elisa Carollo
An abstract seascape shows a glowing yellow sky and sun reflected across dark water, with a small sailboat near the right side.

At MICAS, Reggie Burrows Hodges’s Vision of Malta

By Henry Roberts
A spacious contemporary gallery displays paintings, sculptures and freestanding installations beneath white beams, with historic stonework visible along one wall.

Jean-Marc Bustamante Gives Arles a New Contemporary Art Space

By Elisa Carollo
A wide gallery view featuring a tall orange-and-black textile installation on the left, three large red and orange works on the right and a small knotted sculpture mounted between them.

Carmen Argote Turns Cochineal’s Extractive History Into a Study of Embodiment

By Elisa Carollo
A woman seen from the back stands looking at a gallery wall of paintings in a space with gray walls and light wood floors

Art May Hold the Key to Reclaiming Focus in a Hyper-Accelerated World

By Gail Wegodsky
A pair of art handlers installs a large square portrait of a round-faced woman wearing a dark blue hat against a pale peach wall.

In Sotheby’s Botero Show, Rare Works Meet a Resurgent Global Market

By Elisa Carollo
An old timey black and white photo of a man and woman about to kiss in a restaurant booth

One Fine Show: “Brassaï, The Secret Signs of Paris” at Moderna Museet

By Dan Duray
large, multi-panel abstract painting fills a gallery space, with fiery reds, yellows, greens and dark blue-black areas forming a dramatic, organic composition.

Kai Yoda’s Animist Paintings and the Beast Within

By Elisa Carollo

The Women Who Built the Hamptons Art Scene

By Mary Gregory
A large abstract painting features a glowing pale blue and pink center surrounded by deep red, brown and smoky purple pigment, creating the impression of light emerging from darkness.

Tracing Universal Frequencies, Oliver Beer Makes Sound Visible

By Elisa Carollo
An oversized video projection of a hyperreal, white porcelain-like face with bright blue eyes fills the wall of a dark gallery space.

How Artists Are Using A.I. and Where They Are Drawing the Line

By Elisa Carollo

One Fine Show: “Björk, Echolalia” and “James Merry, Metamorphlings” at the National Gallery of Iceland

By Dan Duray
A man wearing a black sweater, black pants, a colorful scarf, and a black hat sitting on a large translucent red chair shaped like an abstract heart.

Ron Arad’s Unconstrained Objects and the Mind Behind Them

By Xinyi Ye
An outdoor scene shows a woman eating at a garden table with two small humanoid robots seated nearby, surrounded by dense greenery and domestic objects.

Céline Shen and the Art of Living With A.I.

By Elisa Carollo
A detailed view of a painting of a countertop with various containers, jars, a soap dispenser, and small personal items, with floral-patterned tiles and bright, colorful brushwork.

The Flood of A.I.-Generated Images Will Make Human-Made Art More Precious, Not Less

By Alai Ganuza
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