Art Mill Museum, Doha, designed by Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena and scheduled to open in 2030. Photo courtesy Qatar Museums Cranes hover above Saadiyat Island as the Guggenheim…
Read more The New Geography of the Art World in the Age of AccelerationCrypto philanthropy is emerging as a meaningful funding stream, particularly among younger and wealthier donor demographics. Photo by Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images In the past year, the…
Read more A Collector’s Guide to Non-Cash Museum DonationsInstallation 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 Museum9:15 a.m. Find calm in a cathedral If you wake up early enough, visit the beautiful Cathedral Church of Christ in the Lagos Island neighborhood for the early…
Read more 36 Hours in Lagos, Nigeria: Things to Do and See10 a.m. Navigate a dizzying market When Mexico City was still the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, the district of La Merced, in the southeastern edge of the Historic…
Read more 36 Hours in Mexico City: Things to Do and SeeStokes describes her position as the ligature connecting curatorial research, programming and public discourse across two distinct museum ecosystems. Portrait by Kelvin Bulluck, museum image © Henrik Kam,…
Read more Between MoAD and SFMOMA, Cornelia Stokes Charts a Unique Curatorial Path“Scenic City,” the future home of JD Museum in the Shenzhen Bay Super Headquarters Base. ©Büro Ole Scheeren Shenzhen has historically been associated with innovation, emerging as it…
Read more JD.com Bets on Art With an Ambitious New Museum in Shenzhen“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 GazeCelebrating 250 years since the Declaration of Independence, leaders in Suffolk County have released a new guide to the area’s historic sites. The guide gives Long Islanders and…
Read more ‘Suffolk 250’ book aims to boost tourism, highlight sites | Long Island Business News“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 AgeGallerie Dell’Accademia, Venice May 6 – October 19, 2026 Marina Abramović is one of those artists who has never stopped giving the art world something to talk about,…
Read more Observer’s Must-See Museum Shows of 2026Phong 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 SchapiroAlicja Kwade’s Pars pro Toto (2020) in the museum’s courtyard. Courtesy of Dib Bangkok. Photographer Auntika Ounjittichai, 2025 IT WAS HARD TO GET HERE reads a painted vinyl…
Read more Thailand’s First International Contemporary Art Museum Opens, Marking a New Cultural ChapterThis 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 MuseumThe architect behind landmark cultural projects at the British Museum and the AlUla Contemporary Arts Museum discusses reimagining museums as evolving, participatory spaces. Kimberly Lloyd, Courtesy of LG—A…
Read more Lina Ghotmeh Is Reimagining Cultural Architecture for a Connected WorldTatiana 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 GalleryMore than 600 items from a collection documenting the links between Britain and countries in the former British Empire were stolen from a U.K. museum in September, police…
Read more Hundreds of British Empire artifacts stolen from U.K. museum, as police release images of men carrying bagsCamille 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