Installation view: Sterling Ruby’s “Atropa” at Sprüth Magers in New York. Photo: Genevieve Hanson American artist Sterling Ruby has long engaged not only with the chaotic condition of…
Read more Sterling Ruby’s “Atropa” Is a Quiet But Profound Reflection on EntropyMia Westerlund Roosen’s Heat (background) and Conical (foreground), both from 1981, on view at Nunu Fine Art. Photo: Martin Seck, courtesy the artist and Nunu Fine Art Multidisciplinary…
Read more Mia Westerlund Roosen’s Ongoing Material InquiryFebruary 09, 2026 Ride props, design stations and movie-inspired galleries are coming to the Franklin Institute on Feb. 14 By PhillyVoice Media Events Please enable JavaScript to view…
Read more What to know about the Universal Theme Parks exhibition opening at The Franklin InstituteInstallation view: “Nothing Still About Still Lifes” at the Deji Art Museum in Nanjing, China. Courtesy of the Deji Art Museum Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer…
Read more One Fine Show: “Nothing Still About Still Lifes” at the Deji Art MuseumAnita Lam. Courtesy Anita Lam Artist Anita Lam didn’t set out to reinvent the zoo, but after reading John Berger’s Why Look at Animals?, she found herself rethinking…
Read more With “Happy Zoo,” Anita Lam Makes a Case for Artistic EnvironmentalismOscar Murillo. Photo by Tim Bowditch, courtesy the artist. Copyright © Oscar Murillo Those art aficionados who aren’t in Doha this week are likely in Mexico City for…
Read more Oscar Murillo Reflects On Building a Body of Work That Resists Linear TimeTwenty years ago this week, the Minnesota History Center, in Minneapolis’s twin city, St. Paul, launched an interactive exhibition called “Open House: If These Walls Could Talk.” It…
Read more Revisiting Minnesota’s “Open House” Exhibition in the Age of ICEAlberto Giacometti, Silsersee (Lake Sils), 1921-1922, Oil on canvas, 50 x 61 cm. / 19 5/8 x 24 in. © Succession Alberto Giacometti / 2025, ProLitteris, Zurich, Bündner…
Read more In “Faces and Landscapes of Home,” Hauser & Wirth Brings Giacometti Back to Stampa“Henri Rousseau: A Painter’s Secrets” is on view at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia through February 22. Courtesy of the Barnes Foundation Henri Rousseau is primarily known for…
Read more Henri Rousseau, the Performative Naïf Who Outsmarted ModernityTransitions (2012) by Joan Semmel at the Jewish Museum in New York. Photo: Fred Voon for Observer In 1973, when no gallery in New York would show her…
Read more At 93, Joan Semmel Continues to Assert the Female Gaze“Minimal” is on view at La Bourse de Commerce — Pinault Collection through January 19, 2025. Courtesy Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection Minimalism emerged as both an…
Read more An Exhibition in Paris Reconsiders Minimalism for a Hyper-Mediated AgePhong Bui with Meyer and Lillian Schapiro. c. 1994. Photo by Eyal Danieli Connection was and is of vital importance to both art historian Meyer Schapiro (1904-1996) and…
Read more Creating a Legacy with Love: Phong Bui’s Tribute to Meyer SchapiroThis exhibition offers a glimpse into the life of Madame Déficit through the lens of how she chose to look. Peter Kelleher, courtesy Victoria and Albert Museum, London…
Read more One Fine Show: ‘Marie Antoinette Style’ at the Victoria & Albert MuseumTatiana Trouvé, Hors-sol, 2025. Part of “Tatiana Trouvé. The strange Life of Things” in Venice. © Tatiana Trouvé, by SIAE 2025 Ph. Marco Cappelletti and Giuseppe Miotto /…
Read more Don’t Miss: Tatiana Trouvé’s Maps of Memory and Collapse at Palazzo GrassiJoseph Wright of Derby, An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, 1768. The National Gallery Photographic Department A white cockatoo is on the verge of death…
Read more Joseph Wright of Derby’s Theater of Enlightenment at London’s National GalleryInstallation view: “Samuel Sarmiento: Relical Horn” at Andrew Edlin Gallery in New York. Courtesy of Andrew Edlin Gallery The ability of a given artwork to resist being stripped…
Read more Samuel Sarmiento’s Ceramics Channel Universal Memory in His U.S. DebutCamille Pissarro, Apple Harvest, 1888. Oil on canvas, overall: 24 x 29 1/8 in. (60.96 x 73.98 cm.), dimensions: 33 1/2 x 38 3/4 x 4 in. (85.09…
Read more From Rejection to Revolution: Santa Barbara Museum of Art Charts the Rise of the Impressionists“The World as a Labyrinth” probes how Contreras’s work is attuned to a universal consciousness shared across eras and geographies. Courtesy the artist and Bibliothèque Polonaise de Paris…
Read more Don’t Miss: Alejandro García Contreras in Dialogue with Bolesław Biegas and Gustave Moreau in ParisDevin B. Johnson, Crossing, 2025. Oil on linen, 80 x 90 x 2 in. Courtesy of the artist and Nicodim gallery Devin B. Johnson’s paintings emerge on the…
Read more Devin B. Johnson Paints the Space Between Memory and MotionSide by side, Golden State (2024) and Turbulence (2024) strike a stunning dichotomy; both are abstracted landscapes, but while one appears composed of sunlight, the other is composed…
Read more Zheng Chongbin’s Dialogue With the Golden State